Of Wilderness and Wolves (Bur Oak Book), by Paul L. Errington

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“I was a predator, myself, and lived close to the land.” With these words, Paul L. Errington begins this lost classic. Now in print for the first time, the book celebrates a key predator: the wolf. One of the most influential biologists of the twentieth century, Errington melds his expertise in wildlife biology with his love for natural beauty to create a visionary and often moving re-examination of humanity’s relationship with these magnificent and frequently maligned animals. 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. Lyrical yet unsentimental, Of Wilderness and Wolves provides a strong and still-timely dose of ecological realism for the abusive mismanagement of our natural resources. It is a testament to our shortsightedness and to Errington’s vision that this book, its publication so long delayed, still speaks directly to our environmental crises.

Of Wilderness and Wolves (Bur Oak Book), by Paul L. Errington

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1376755 in Books
• Published on: 2015-11-15
• Released on: 2015-11-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.00" h x .94" w x 6.00" l, .0 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 244 pages

Of Wilderness and Wolves (Bur Oak Book), by Paul L. Errington

Review “Paul L. Errington had an iconic presence in the field of wildlife science. His ideas transformed modern-day thinking and his touch—honed from time alone in the wild—is rare in this day. Together, and with his eloquent writing style, these things linger and are still part of our thinking.”—Douglas W. Smith, author, Wolves on the Hunt“Paul Errington’s Of Wilderness and Wolves is prescient, eloquent, and still relevant to American wolf politics, despite waiting half a century to be published. This book, contextualized in Matthew Wynn Sivils’s helpful introduction, will appeal to lovers of wolves, wilderness, and…Aldo Leopold.”—Scott Slovic, University of Idaho

About the Author Paul L. Errington was listed by Life magazine in 1961 as one of the top ten naturalists of his day, along with Rachel Carson, Joseph Wood Krutch, and Roger Tory Peterson, and he won the Wildlife Society’s Aldo Leopold Award in 1962. In addition to Of Men and Marshes, Muskrats and Marsh Management, and Muskrat Populations, he was the author of some two hundred scientific articles and three posthumous books: Of Predation and Life, The Red Gods Call, and A Question of Values. Editor of Errington’s Of Men and Marshes (Iowa reprint, 2012), formerly a wildlife biologist, and now a professor of English at Iowa State University, Matthew Wynn Sivils is the author of American Environmental Fiction, 1782–1847. He lives in Ames, Iowa.

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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Of historical interest to conservationists. Recommended for library collections By Timothy J. Bazzett I had very high hopes for Paul Errington's OF WILDERNESS AND WOLVES. After all, I was enthralled by Canadian Farley Mowat's classic, NEVER CRY WOLF, many years ago. But I found the Errington book rather disappointing, mainly because of its awkward, often wooden writing style. While Errington was much respected and widely recognized in his own time as a naturalist and conservationist, writing appears to have been somewhat problematic for him. We learn from editor Matthew Wynn Silvis's Introduction that Errington first wrote OF WILDERNESS AND WOLVES in the sixties, but he was never able to get it published. This University of Iowa Press edition is the first time these essays have been published in book form. Ironically, perhaps the main reason Errington could not get his book published was that it was submitted at about the same time that Mowat's NEVER CRY WOLF (1963) was published. Errington's publishers probably knew that Mowat's book, already enormously successful - and far more readable - would overshadow Errington's work.And I think they were right. Because far too much of Errington's text - certainly the first hundred-plus pages - are marred by stilted unnatural prose. Here are a couple of examples -"Complexities in natural relationships have surely been a part of Life as long as Life has been on our planet, and surely Life has been acquiring complexity in relationships as it has been acquiring complexity in its forms." - or -"The public generally overrates the population effects of predation upon wild animals, at the same time generally underrating the effects of the less spectacular factors that may operate more fundamentally."I mean, try reading a few dozen pages of that kind of prose without yawning, I dare you. Especially when what you really wanted - were expecting - was an interesting story of wolves and life in the wilderness. Instead you get what reads like an awkward dissertation or scholarly study. And it IS a scholarly study. I get that. But in reaching for that distinction, Errington made the results of his prodigious research, along with his years of field work and personal observation, simply, well, dull.For me, the one redeeming section of the book, the one INTERESTING and most readable part, was "Of Wolves and the Big Bog." In that chapter he falls into a much more personal, mostly first-person, mode, telling of a winter he spent as a young man (circa 1921) camping alone, hunting and trapping. He lived in a primitive shack on the northern shore of Upper Red Lake. The Big Bog was -"... a vast swampy area. There on Minnesota road maps, occupying most of the north central part of the state and extending up to the Canadian border, lay one of the biggest blank spaces in the United States."Although he hoped to bag a wolf or two that winter, he only caught fleeting glimpses of them. There was plenty of other wildlife available though - lynx, fisher, weasel, muskrat, beaver, bobcat and more - and his traplines were pretty lucrative. He tells too of his loneliness and his friendship with a white-footed mouse that shared his cabin and "cached prune pits in my footwear." Errington's solitary winter in the Big Bog country brought to mind another book I read years ago, Pete Fromm's marvelous memoir, INDIAN CREEK CHRONICLES: A WINTER ALONE IN THE WILDERNESS.One good chapter, however, does not a great book make. Much of the remainder of the book was something of a slog, seemingly cobbled together, with frequent citations from Aldo Leopold, his son, Starker Leopold, and other noted naturalists, a section about wolves in Scandinavia, and a brief mention of an ongoing study of wolves and moose on Isle Royale in Lake Superior. This latter reference served to remind me how very long ago Errington was writing this book, as numerous studies have since come out about the Isle Royale wolf packs.Iowa is to be commended for finally bringing Errington's work on wolves into print, because there is, I am sure, plenty of important wolf-and-wilderness data here, and scholars of those subjects will probably find much to ponder. I doubt, however, that the general public will find very much of interest here. Recommended primarily for library collections. (three and a half stars)- Tim Bazzett, author of the memoir, BOOKLOVER

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Wolves is a great read By Roger D. Applegate "Of wilderness and wolves" is another piece of classic writing by animal ecologist Paul Errington's. Like all of Errington's books, it is slightly challenging but well worth reading. Errington has long been one of my favorite ecologists and ranks right beside his contemporary Aldo Leopold.

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