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Beef, Brush, and Bobwhites

Quail Management in Cattle Country

By: Fidel Hernández,Fred S. Guthery

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Beef, Brush, and Bobwhites

Quail Management in Cattle Country

By: Fidel Hernández,Fred S. Guthery

In this completely revised Texas A&M University Press edition, Guthery and coauthor Fidel Hernández have breathed new life into a classic work that for more than twenty years has been teaching biologists, managers, and ranchers to "think like a quail." Updated with the latest research on quail habitat management, predator control, and recent issues such as aflatoxin contamination, Hernández and Guthery help land stewards understand the optimum conditions for encouraging and sustaining quail populations while continuing to manage rangeland for cattle production. Written in a style that is entertaining and easy to read, this book is, in Guthery’s words, "meant to be kept on the dashboard of your pickup." More than 150 helpful photographs and figures, along with supporting tables, accompany the text. In his foreword to this edition of Beef, Brush, and Bobwhites, respected Texas wildlife photographer Wyman Meinzer writes of how the calls of a covey of bobwhites—or the unfortunate absence of those calls—can remind us "that wildlife and habitat conservation is directly proportional to the quality of stewardship that we bestow on the land.

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1603445870

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A Primer on Natural Resource Science

By: Fred S. Guthery

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By: Fred S. Guthery

Guthery uses his long experience, the body of his own research, and the research of other fisheries, range, and wildlife scientists to convey the philosophical underpinnings of science. By providing real-life examples in the practice of natural resource science, he offers some very practical, occasionally painful, and sometimes humorous lessons on the human urge to know about nature through science. These lessons will be welcomed by all natural resource students and professionals who want to be good scientists."-- From publisher's description.

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1603443967

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A Primer on Natural Resource Science

By: Fred S. Guthery

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A Primer on Natural Resource Science

By: Fred S. Guthery

In wildlife, fisheries, forestry, and range management departments around the country, natural resource scientists and their students advance understanding of the natural world largely through the collection and analysis of data. These students learn how to acquire data in the field and analyze them using modeling and other statistical methods. What they do not learn, contends author Fred S. Guthery, is what science means as an intellectual pursuit and where natural resource science fits in the scientific tradition. He argues that without education about the nature and philosophy of science, the wildlife field has become enamored with its methodologies at the expense of gaining real knowledge, leading to what some have characterized as “a crisis in how wildlife science is pursued.” With A Primer on Natural Resource Science, Guthery intends to put learning about the nature of science into the natural resource scientist’s university curriculum. In the first part of the book, “Perspectives,” Guthery describes the principles of the scientific endeavor, discussing the nature of reasoning, of facts, of creativity and critical thinking. In the second part, “Practice,” he presents the “mechanics” of science, explaining the roles of experiment, observation, models, and statistics. He also demystifies the essential activity of publishing, telling students and researchers why they must do it and how to do it successfully. Throughout the book, Guthery uses his long experience and the body of his own research to relate the philosophical underpinnings of science to the realities of field biology. By providing real-life examples in the practice of natural resource science, Guthery offers practical, occasionally painful, and sometimes humorous lessons on the human urge to know about nature through science.

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Beef, Brush, and Bobwhites

Beef, Brush, and Bobwhites

A Primer on Natural Resource Science

A Primer on Natural Resource Science

A Primer on Natural Resource Science

A Primer on Natural Resource Science

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