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Stalking the Big Bird: A Tale of Turkeys, Biologists, and Bureaucrats

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Stalking the Big Bird: A Tale of Turkeys, Biologists, and Bureaucrats - Shaw, Harley
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Merriam's turkey is a bird native to the southern Rocky Mountains and the Colorado Plateau, a subspecies that might seem at first blush an unlikely subject for intensive research. But as Harley Shaw well knows, no creature is exempt from the close scrutiny of biologists. Shaw is himself a research biologist perhaps best known for his book Soul among Lions . Although the wild turkey may be less charismatic than the puma, it offers an equal opportunity for Shaw to reflect on how we manage--or mismanage--wildlife. But while ...

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Stalking the Big Bird: A Tale of Turkeys, Biologists, and Bureaucrats 2004, University of Arizona Press

ISBN-13: 9780816522989

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