William Stolzenburg
Will Stolzenburg has written hundreds of magazine articles about the science and spirit of saving wild creatures. A 2010 Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellow, he is also the author of the book "Where the Wild Things Were" and the screenwriter for the documentaries "Lords of Nature: Life in a Land...
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Will Stolzenburg has written hundreds of magazine articles about the science and spirit of saving wild creatures. A 2010 Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellow, he is also the author of the book "Where the Wild Things Were" and the screenwriter for the documentaries "Lords of Nature: Life in a Land of Great Predators," and "Ocean Frontiers: The Dawn of a New Era in Ocean Stewardship".
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Intellectually most people realize that a healthy ecosystem needs its large predators, like grizzlies, wolves, killer whales and sharks in order to function properly but when we hear news stories about encounters between humans and said predators most of us probably have a tendency to leave intellec...
Very interesting ecology book focusing on the effects of big predators - their removal and re-introduction. There isn't much to say that hasn't been said in previous reviews. The writing style is personable and not overly technical, but doesn't dumb down the subject at all. Minus one star for fai...
Riveting accounts of invasive species on selected islands and what has been done to eradicate them. This is not just a book about Rat Island, as I had supposed, but includes background on invasive mammals and the history of attempts at their eradication. The ones in this book have been mostly in New...
So much of this book is chilling and horrifying and graphic- be warned that if you have a hard time reading about teeming waves of rodents leaving carnage in their wake, you may want to be careful with this one. A tale worth reading- it's about hubris and inattention and making things worse under t...
It's hard to characterize a book about killing some animals in order to save others "enjoyable," but insofar as that's possible, this was a very enjoyable account of rat (pig, goat, fox, cat) eradication on islands whose native birds are threatened by introduced predators. Stolzenburg raises this mo...
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