Of wilderness and wolves
By: by Paul L. Errington ; edited and with an introduction by Matthew Wynn Sivils ; illustrations by Charles W. Schwartz
Contributors: Schwartz, Charles W., illustrator
Series: Bur oak book; Bur oak book
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9781609383657
Subjects: Philosophy of nature; Wolves; Ecology
Description: "Tracing his own relationship with wolves from his rural South Dakota upbringing through his formative years as a professional trapper to his landmark work as an internationally renowned wildlife biologist, Errington delves into our irrational fear of wolves. He forthrightly criticizes what he views as humanity's prejudice against an animal that continues to serve as the very emblem of the wilderness we claim to love, but that too often falls prey to our greed and ignorance. A friend of Aldo Leopold, Errington was an important figure in the conservation efforts in the first half of the twentieth century. During his lifetime, wolves were considered vicious, wantonly destructive predators; by the mid-1900s, they had been almost completely eliminated from the lower forty-eight states. Their reintroduction to their historical range today remains controversial."--Publisher's description.
Table of contents: title: Part I: Some small beginnings in experience. Of wolves and boyhood fear and fascination; title: Part II: Toward understanding wolves, what they are, and what they do; title: a factual background. Of the nature of wolves; title: Of wolves and wolf prey; title: Of wolves, reindeer, caribou, and human mistakes; title: Of wolves and deer and deer range and man; title: Of man and wolves and labels and morals; title: Part III: Toward an appreciation of wolves as part of what is wild and free. Of wolves and the big bog; title: Mostly about coyotes and the west river country; title: Of wilderness and wolves; title: Of wilderness and wolves and Scandinavia; title: Of modernity and wolves and a wolf named dagwood; title: Of man and maturity; title: Epilogue: Going on from some reflections about the dog in the manger.