Dust jacket notes:  "Even as a child, the internationally famous naturalist Paul Errington had a fascination with nature, grasping every available opportunity to explore and discover its wonders.  These recollections of his boyhood experiences in hunting, fishing, trapping, and simply observing wildlife provide a rare and pleasant adventure.   From the Big Sioux River in South Dakota to the Big Bog Country in Minnesota and on to the wilds of the Canadian North, you'll follow young Errington along game trails - through the pine and spruce and white cedar; through the birch and aspen; over the rocks, lakes rivers, and marshes.  You'll share his joy in owning his first rifle;  the excitement, frustration, and humor of his first hunt; the pride over trapping his first mink and killing his first deer.  You'll laugh reading about his first canoe, so laboriously constructed in his manual training class, only to be quickly chopped up for firewood after its baptism and subsequent sinking...his discovery that traps, when thrown in a bonfire, not only lose all traces of human scent but lose all temper in the springs as well...his short-lived conviction that skunk oil must be worth something, and the lasting impression his skunk oil-polished boots leave on his classmates....And you'll wonder at this young man's intense observation and true appreciation of nature's creatures as well as his determination to be a part of their wilderness, regardless of the obstacles in his way.  Whether you glory in the excitement of the hunt, the serenity of quietly sitting by a blazing fire just watching and philosophizing, or the nostalgia of times past when wilderness areas were in abundance, you'll find it all here - captured with keen perception, warmth, and humor.  A book of memories, of adventure, of a never-ending zest for life, The Red Gods Call is a reading experience that anyone who has ever heard the Red Gods calling - tempting him up and away - will treasure."

The Red Gods Call

Errington, Paul L.

Iowa State University Press

Of Predation and Life

Iowa State Univ Pr (Trd)

“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)

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

University Of Iowa Press

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