Ursus In A Sky Island Range

by Steve Pavlik

Overview

An extensive twelve-year study of the bear population in Arizona's Huachuca Mountains. Insightful, personal field work from a naturalist and environmental ethicist.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940150469693
Publisher:	Steve Pavlik
Publication date:	11/05/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Steve Pavlik taught Native American Studies and Native Environmental Science at Northwest Indian College, Bellingham, Washington, for many years. Among the courses he taught were Philosophy of the Natural World, Native Science, Indigenous Animal Behavior, and Native Environmental Ethics. He had over thirty-five years of teaching experience in American Indian education and held Master�s degrees in both American Indian Studies and American History from the University of Arizona. Mr. Pavlik is the author of The Navajos and the Animal People: Essays in Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Ethnozoology (In Press), and is the editor of two other books: A Good Cherokee, A Good Anthropologist: Essays in Honor of Robert K. Thomas and (with Daniel R. Wildcat), Destroying Dogma: Vine Deloria, Jr. and His Influence on American Society. He also published over 70 other articles, essays, and reviews, mostly in the fields of American Indian Studies and the environment. His areas of academic specialization include Native American religion and spirituality, ethnozoology, cognitive ethology, and environmental ethics. Mr. Pavlik was a naturalist and activist who has performed volunteer work with numerous environmental groups including the Sky Island Alliance, Defenders of Wildlife, and the Sierra Club. For a number of years he was a Project WILD trainer and instructor for the Arizona Department of Game and Fish. He was especially involved in the area of large carnivore conservation, including working with the Mexican wolf reintroduction program, and as a member of the Jaguar Conservation Team, and in campaigning for reform of wildlife management and policy as it applies to carnivores. He died on November 5th, 2014 after a long battle with cancer.