Over the past four decades, Bruce L. Smith has worked with most big-game species in some of the American West’s most breathtaking and challenging landscapes. In Stories from Afield, readers join Smith on his adventures as a naturalist, sportsman, and wildlife biologist, as he pulls us into the field of learning and discovery across wilderness areas of western Montana, the National Elk Refuge in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and a South African temperate forest. Ranging from humorous to harrowing, Smith’s essays recount capturing newborn elk calves, stalking mountain goats on icy cliffs, being stranded on a mountain after riding out a helicopter crash, confrontations with bears during his research, plus quirky and edifying hunting tales. Throughout his adventures, the magnetism and danger of wild nature are ever present, reminding us that our fascination with wildness often stems from its unpredictability.

Stories from Afield: Adventures with Wild Things in Wild Places (Outdoor Lives)

Biographies & Memoirs

Smith, Bruce L.

Professionals & Academics

Bison Books

A practicing pediatrician as well as analyst, Donald Woods Winnicott possessed a profound appreciation for the developmental tasks of life's earliest stages and, in particular, for the role of the other in successful maturation. While most practicing psychoanalysts are familiar with the concept of the transitional object-Winnicott's best known contribution-his work is sometimes considered more of interest to developmental theorists and child care workers than to psychotherapists. Yet his bibliography, which includes nearly 200 published works and many still unpublished papers, contains valuable discussions of a wide spectrum of clinical problems. Organized in four sections, The Facilitating Environment opens with a series of theoretical chapters that place Winnicott's key concepts in the framework of better-known schools of psychoanalytic thought. The clinical chapters that follow are divided into three parts, each corresponding to an important idea of Winnicott's: Transitional Phenomena, The False Self Organization, and The Psychotherapeutic Holding Environment. These chapters, which demonstrate the usefulness with which analysts of a variety of orientations have found his ideas, vary quite widely in their focus. The patients described range from a multiple personality to chronic schizophrenics, and they concern the treatment in both hospital and office settings of such problems as anorexia, delinquency, and chronic normalcy. This much-needed volume concludes with an engrossing chapter by Winnicott himself and titled 'Interpretation and Psychoanalysis' , this never before published paper offers a revealing look at issues of timing, technique and the place of the analyst.

The Facilitating Environment: Clinical Applications of Winnicott's Theory

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Fromm, M. Gerald

Psychology & Counseling

Intl Universities Pr Inc

This book details the common fate shared by large mammal herds and Native peoples as Euro-American expansion swept the American West. As both were exploited and removed from much of the land, Indian tribes were sequestered on reservations where impoverished herds of deer, elk, pronghorn, and bighorn sheep and no bison remained. The story focuses on two of these Indian nations, the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho and how their cultures and lifestyles forever were changed by the loss of their nomadic hunting economy. In 1978, the tribal councils petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to help them recover their wildlife heritage. Wildlife on the Wind recounts how the first wildlife biologist to work on the Wind River Indian Reservation helped the Shoshone and Arapaho people change the course of conservation. In addition to a story of hope, perseverance, and restoration of charismatic wildlife, it's also a biologist's personal journey to understanding the true purpose of his work. This landmark conservation achievement is the first on an American Indian reservation to be published for a general audience.

Wildlife on the Wind: A Field Biologist's Journey and an Indian Reservation's Renewal

History

Americas

Utah State University Press

Records of North American Sheep, Goats & Pronghorn

History is made with the release of the first Boone and Crockett Club records book featuring all 3,941 accepted wild sheep, Rocky Mountain goats and pronghorn trophies. Enjoy more than 150 trophy, field and historical photographs. Full-page photographs of all state and provincial records highlight each section of this 400-page book.

Records of North American Sheep, Rocky Mountain Goats & Pronghorn

Reference

Geist, Valerius

O'Gara, Bart W.

Boone and Crockett Club

Reneau, Jack

Pedrotti, Daniel A.

Lambson, Hayden

Dahl, Ruby W.

Reneau, Susan

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Boone & Crockett Club

The American mountain goat is one of the most elusive and least familiar species of hoofed mammals in North America. Confined to the remote and rugged mountains of the western United States and Canada, these extraordinary mountaineers are seldom seen or encountered, even by those who patiently study them. Life on the Rocks offers an intimate portrayal of this remarkable animal through the eyes and lens of field biologist and photographer Bruce L. Smith. More than 100 color photographs and accounts of Smith's personal experiences living in Montana's Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area accompany descriptions of the American mountain goat's natural history. Smith explores their treacherous habitat, which spans the perilous cliffs and crags of the Rocky, Cascade, and Coast mountain ranges. The physical and behavioral adaptations of these alpine athletes enable them to survive a host of dangers, including six-month-ling winters, scarce food sources, thunderous avalanches, social strife, and predators like wolves, bears, lions, wolverines, and eagles. Smith also details the challenges these animals face as their territory is threatened by expanding motorized access, industrial activities, and a warming climate. Life on the Rocks showcases the elegance and charm of this little-known creature, thriving in some of North America's harshest wilderness.

Life on the Rocks: A Portrait of the Mountain Goat

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

LYONS PRESS+

The American mountain goat is one of the most elusive and least familiar species of hoofed mammals in North America. Confined to the remote and rugged mountains of the western United States and Canada, these extraordinary mountaineers are seldom seen or encountered, even by those who patiently study them. Life on the Rocks offers an intimate portrayal of this remarkable animal through the eyes and lens of field biologist and photographer Bruce Smith.Color photographs and accounts of Smith's personal experiences living in Montana's Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area accompany descriptions of the American mountain goat's natural history. Smith explores their treacherous habitat, which spans the perilous cliffs and crags of the Rocky, Cascade, and Coast mountain ranges. The physical and behavioral adaptations of these alpine athletes enable them to survive a host of dangers, including six-month-long winters, scarce food sources, thunderous avalanches, social strife, and predators like wolves, bears, lions, wolverines, and eagles. Smith also details the challenges these animals face as their territory is threatened by expanding motorized access, industrial activities, and a warming climate. Life on the Rocks showcases the elegance and charm of this little-known creature, thriving in some of North America's harshest wilderness. Smith's volume will appeal to wildlife enthusiasts, wildland travelers, and conservationists interested in the future of the American mountain goat. Winner of two National Outdoor Book Awards in the Nature &amp; Environment and Design &amp; Artistic Merit categories.

Life on the Rocks: A Portrait of the American Mountain Goat

University Press of Colorado

Legend Keepers: The Chosen One

In a perilous place at the roof of the world, an orphaned mountain goat is rescued from certain death by a mysterious raven. Communication between a mountain goat and raven might seem strange. But what becomes more unreachable is Buddy's realization that she alone can save a band of goats from the great danger foretold in an ancient legend. This brilliant tale with a clever mix of discovery will spark the intellectual curiosity of every reader.

Children's Books

Animals

Hidden Shelf Publishing House

From the Author\nThis story of hope, perseverance, friendships, and finding one's purpose—with a subtext of climate change's effects on the alpine environment—will leave a lasting impression on every reader.\nLook for the second book in the Legend Keepers series in summer 2022.\nLegend Keepers: The Chosen One has won the Silver/2nd place award in the 2022 Feathered Quill Book Awards Program for both the Young Readers and Animal - Children's/YA categories!\nIn a perilous place at the roof of the world, an orphaned mountain goat is rescued from certain death by a mysterious raven. Communication between a mountain goat and raven might seem strange. But what becomes more unreachable is Buddy's realization that she alone can save a band of goats from the great danger foretold in an ancient legend. This brilliant tale with a clever mix of discovery will spark the intellectual curiosity of every reader.

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