Late in 2019, at the annual meeting of The Wildlife Society in Reno, Nevada, some roguish wag who according to observers looked suspiciously like me, may have, in a conversation with the senior life sciences editor of Johns Hopkins University Press, playfully referred to the then just-released “Quantitative Analyses in Wildlife Science” as “How to Count Bears.”
While it may not be widely known outside of professional circles, the ideas and techniques that have been developed in North America for the conservation of that continents’ wildlife are so markedly different from how it has long been practiced in Europe, as well as in the rest of the world, that it has become known among professionals in the field as The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation.
Edited by John L. Koprowski and Paul R. Krausman, this recently published addition to the Wildlife Management and Conservation series from Johns Hopkins University Press takes up such often popularly discussed topics as “habitat loss, disease management, predator-human conflict, [and] illegal trade” in animal species from and for the perspectives of those addressing these challenges on an international level.
Perhaps it’s because I recently read and reviewed Robyn Arianrhod’s Thomas Harriot; A Life in Science, which details how the remarkable achievements of this Elizabethan polymath began with his employment by Sir Walter Ralegh as a mathematician specifically tasked with improving Ralegh’s crew’s navigational techniques.
Perhaps it’s because…