wildlife

Holiday Thoughts About Holidays

May 28, 2018

As this Monday is a bank holiday in the UK, it’s not particularly surprising that Mark Avery’s thoughts this weekend would be filled with ideas of holiday weekends past and holiday weekends to come.

And as holiday weekends go, I – for one, and I’m confident that Mark for another – would say that hopping about Europe each weekend for a year is a pretty appealing idea indeed! And if a guidebook is needed for inspiration, Mark seems to have found just the right one: James Lowen’s “52 European Wildlife Weekends.”

Mountain Lions of the Black Hills

March 9, 2018

I can’t say that reading Professor Jenks’ book will improve your Cougar or Not skills, but it will present you with a wealth of information regarding the dynamics of the diet, nutrition, diseases, behavior, genetics, prey base, and a number of other important topics pertaining to these much misunderstood and increasingly imperiled animals.

Becoming a Wildlife Professional

September 23, 2017

If there was ever a more appropriate time than the beginning of The Wildlife Society’s annual conference to publish news of the recently published “Becoming a Wildlife Professional” from Johns Hopkins University Press, I cannot think of what it might possibly be.

The Quarry Fox

September 21, 2017

It only took me a few pages of reading in Leslie T. Sharpe’s “The Quarry Fox And Other Critters of the Wild Catskills,” recently published by The Overlook Press, to find myself wondering if I wasn’t in fact reading a long-lost essay by sage of the Catskills himself, John Burroughs.