This remarkable book offers an intimate look at the life histories and habitats of mammals in the Pacific Northwest, from the coast to the high Cascades. For each species of mammal, the book provides a physical description and detailed information on distribution, habitat, and behavior. Over 100 photos.
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I spent over 25 years as a research scientist in natural history and ecology in forest, shrub steppe, subarctic, desert, coastal, and agricultural settings. Trained primarily as a vertebrate zoologist, I was a research mammalogist in Nubia, Egypt, (1963-1964) with the Yale University Peabody Museum Prehistoric Expedition and a research mammalogist in Nepal (1966-1967), where I participated in a study of tick-borne diseases for the U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit #3 based in Cairo, Egypt. I conducted a three-year (1970-1973) ecological survey of the Oregon Coast for the University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington. I was a research ecologist with the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management for thirteen years (1974-1987)--the last eight studying old-growth forests in western Oregon--and a landscape ecologist with the Environmental Protection Agency for one year (1990-1991).
Today I am an independent author as well as an international lecturer, facilitator, and consultant in resolving environmental conflicts, vision statements, sustainable community development, as well as forest ecology and sustainable forestry practices.
I have written over 285 publications, including 34 books I have either written or coauthored in the last 20 years. My books are in libraries in 74 countries, including the United States and Canada.
I have lived, worked, consulted, and/or Lectured in: Austria * Canada * Chile * Egypt * France * Germany * Japan * Malaysia * Mexico * Nepal * Slovakia * Switzerland * and various settings in the United States.
If you want to know more or contact me, you can visit my website at "chrismaser.com"
If you want to watch a presentation I gave at Missouri State University, go to my website and click on "essays," scroll down to "Environmental" on the left side, and then click on "The Law of Cosmic Unification," which is the first essay under this topic. Scroll all the way to the bottom of the page, and you will see the link.
Today I am an independent author as well as an international lecturer, facilitator, and consultant in resolving environmental conflicts, vision statements, sustainable community development, as well as forest ecology and sustainable forestry practices.
I have written over 285 publications, including 34 books I have either written or coauthored in the last 20 years. My books are in libraries in 74 countries, including the United States and Canada.
I have lived, worked, consulted, and/or Lectured in: Austria * Canada * Chile * Egypt * France * Germany * Japan * Malaysia * Mexico * Nepal * Slovakia * Switzerland * and various settings in the United States.
If you want to know more or contact me, you can visit my website at "chrismaser.com"
If you want to watch a presentation I gave at Missouri State University, go to my website and click on "essays," scroll down to "Environmental" on the left side, and then click on "The Law of Cosmic Unification," which is the first essay under this topic. Scroll all the way to the bottom of the page, and you will see the link.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
More than a creature identification book,
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This review is from: Mammals of the Pacific Northwest: From the Coast to the High Cascades (Paperback)
If you live in the Pacific Northwest and want to identify the wild mammals you see, this book is very helpful. However, there is a lot more to the book than just good descriptions of mammals. Stories about each creature bring to life the animals you may never encounter. Chris Maser is clearly fond of his subjects and tries hard to help the reader get a feel for their lives. It is fun to just open this book at random and read a few pages about vole or bat you never knew existed. I have several mammal identification books. This is the best one.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Obscure black/white photos only; Oregon focus; informative,
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This review is from: Mammals of the Pacific Northwest: From the Coast to the High Cascades (Paperback)
As do many books with subjects attempting to cover the entire "Pacific Northwest," this book focuses primarily on a certain area of the PNW. In this book's case, it's Oregon (no offense at all to this wonderful state). The photos are all small, black-and-white, and obscure. There are MANY photos of feces in this book. While it's helpful to know feces identification, it's more important to identify mammals by species identification. Perhaps I'm lucky, because I get to see more actual animals in the wild, rather than only their droppings. Some mammals in the book are not even pictured at all. Some of my friends have never even seen a nutria (coypus) or a marten in the wild, so pictures of them (and other animals) would have been helpful and more aesthetically pleasing to them. I've seen wolves in eastern Washington and a brown stage black bear in western Washington which the book does not address. On the other hand, the bat and shrew sections were extensive and thorough. Overall, the book is interesting and is scientifically well-organized. Included is ample, specific information on habitat, behavior, and breeding.
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