Wildlife

Flora and Fauna

Life as a Wildlife Biologist

Apps and websites:

https://www.xeno-canto.org/

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/search

https://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/APweb/welcome.html

Responsible Conservation

"In the end, we will

conserve only what we

love, we will love only

what we understand,

and we will understand

only what we are taught."
-Baba Dioum,
Senegalese conservationist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaWKWodtHsI&t=10s

Native Flora (California)

Climate change and tree migrations, what foresters can do

https://www.cnps.org/

https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/

Invasive Flora (California)

Native Fauna (California)

Mammals

Humboldt or Pacific Marten (Martes caurina )
American Mink (Neovison vison)
Fisher (Pekania pennanti )

Invasive Fauna (California)

Terminology/ Maps

https://native-land.ca/
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Recommended Readings

Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, Frans de Waal
Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer
Trust in the Land: New Directions in Tribal Conservation (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies), Beth Rose Middleton Manning
Tending the Wild, M. Kat Anderson (and associated publications by author)
Upstream: Trust Lands and Power on the Feather River, Beth Rose Middleton Manning
Forgotten Fires: Native Americans and the Transient Wilderness, Omer Call Stewart
Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native; Journal of Genocide Research 8.4 (2006): 387-409, Patrick Wolfe ( https://www.kooriweb.org/foley/resources/pdfs/89.pdf )
Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country: Wastelanding, Traci Brynne Voyles
Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of National Parks, Mark David Spence
Native Science: Natural Laws of Interdependence, Gregory Cajete
Traditional Ecological Knowledge: the Third Alternative (Commentary), Raymond Pierotti and Daniel Wildcat ( https://www.fws.gov/nativeamerican/pdf/tek-pierrotti-wildcat-2000.pdf )
As Long as Grass Grows, Dina Gilio- Whitaker
Indigenous Ecologies, Pamela McElwee, Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares, Marian Ahn Thorpe, Kyle Powys Whyte, Beth Rose Middleton, Kaitlin Reed, Waaseyaa'sin Christine Sy, Alysse Marie Moldawer ( https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199830060/obo-9780199830060-0199.xml )
The Animal Dialogues Uncommon Encounters in the Wild, Craig Childs
A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold
Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
The Sixth Extinction, An Unnatural History, Elizabeth Kolbert
In Defense of the Land Ethic, J. Baird Callicott
The Song of the Dodo, David Quammen
Wildlife Conservation in a Changing Climate, Jedediah F. Brodie, Eric S. Post, Daniel F. Doak
Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking, Rachel Love Nuwer
Feral, George Monbiot
Wild Things, Wild Places: Adventurous Tales of Wildlife and Conservation on Planet Earth, Jane Alexander
The Big Conservation Lie, John Mbaria and Mordecai Ogada
The Sense of Wonder, Rachel Carson
The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems, Fritjof Capra
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and The Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould
What a Plant Knows: A field guide to the senses by Daniel Chamovitz
Metazoa: Animal Minds and the Birth of Consciousness By Peter Godfrey-Smith
The Edge of Sea by Rachel Carson