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Books about wildlife
Do you know any books about wildlife you'd recommend?
I really like "Secret go the wolves" by R.D. Lawrence - well-written, quite funny, and you learn a lot about wolves.
And Charlie Russell wrote a couple of books about his work with bears that I think are good, because it's not often you find reading material on bears from that kind of a perspective.
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what are you looking for wild woman i've got tons of books on wildlife
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are you looking for specific animals or wildlife in general ?
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Gary Paulsen wrote some nonfiction i particularly liked; winter dance for example.
same with John McPhee, comming into the country was good.
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Wareagle, CG - I prefer books that are written for laypersons to scientific ones. Unless you know of scientific books that you think have great info in it. I enjoy reading books that let you learn both about wild animals habitat and behaviour, and where we as humans fit in; which is more or less what Charlie Russell and RD Lawrence wrote.
As far as species go, I'm mostly interested in the critters in our backyard:
-woodland caribou
-wolverines
-ravens
-moose
-black bears
-martens
-wolves
-grizzlies (not the coastal variety though)
Those are the main ones we see and sometimes get to interact with.
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well there is always the peterson guides and the national audobon society books
for bears i have bears by kevin van tighem covers all 8 species
for wolves as i said before micheal runtz is the best
for moose the ecology and management of the north ameriican moose is the bible on moose but it does get techincal and costs over 100 bucks moose by art rogers also tyr contacting the IWRC international wildlife reahbilitation counsil they have great resources on animals thats where the bulk of our books on animals come from or even try amazon.ca type in bear or moose or ? should bring up but like ya said you want reference how did you find aspen when you talked to them?
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Thanks for the info, Wareagle! Wouldn't mind to learn more about moose, we're right in a moose wintering ground here although this year, mysteriously, they're hardly here, especially zip cows with calves. We had a young bull go through the ice last spring, right in front of the cabin, it took him a while but luckily he got out okay. They're a complacent bunch here, kind of funny, because we always hear about the Alaskan moose attacking people and dog teams. Here they seem more docile.
Aspen Valley was friendly but also didn't have much wolf howling info - they said it would be interesting to study it.
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interesting you say that cuz the mnr just finished their study here and same thing not many calves this year either
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Well you're lucky that you hear about the official numbers; it's our pet peeve that the fish and wildlife biologists up here don't talk to us hicks in the bush. you'd think they might be interested in the observations of people who live in the area instead of relying on an air count every few years.
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