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Author Smith, Bruce L., 1948- author.

Title Stories from afield : adventures with wild things in wild places / Bruce L. Smith
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource
Series Outdoor lives series
Outdoor lives.
Contents Snowbound -- Big turtle -- The way west -- The deer hunt -- The elk hunt -- Woodpeckers to goats -- The bear and the tree -- Gravity -- Lightning -- Collecting -- Old garbage gut -- In the timber -- Baby elk -- The circle -- Empty forests -- Four decades later
Summary Over the past four decades, Bruce L. Smith has worked with most big-game species in some of the American West's most breathtaking and challenging landscapes. In Stories from Afield, readers join Smith on his adventures as a naturalist, sportsman, and wildlife biologist, as he pulls us into the field of learning and discovery across wilderness areas of western Montana, the National Elk Refuge in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and a South African temperate forest. Ranging from humorous to harrowing, Smith's essays recount capturing newborn elk calves, stalking mountain goats on icy cliffs, being stranded on a mountain after riding out a helicopter crash, confrontations with bears during his research, plus quirky and edifying hunting tales. Throughout his adventures, the magnetism and danger of wild nature are ever present, reminding us that our fascination with wildness often stems from its unpredictability
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Smith, Bruce L., 1948-
SUBJECT Smith, Bruce L., 1948- fast
Subject Wildlife conservation -- Fieldwork -- United States -- Anecdotes
Outdoor life -- United States -- Anecdotes
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
Outdoor life
United States
Genre/Form Anecdotes
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016029455
ISBN 9780803295339
0803295332
9780803295346
0803295340
9780803295353
0803295359