Coming Memoirs Lady Hunter by Hamerstrom Frances (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. xii, 156 pp. Original cloth. Near Fine, in dust jacket. This copy does NOT have any library markings. First Edition. Frances Hamerstrom (1907 1998) "was an American writer, naturalist and ornithologist known for her work with the greater prairie chicken in Wisconsin, and for her research on birds of prey. Hamerstrom was a prolific writer, publishing over 100 professional papers and 10 books on the prairie chicken, harriers, eagles, and other wildlife topics. . . . Hamerstrom and her husband wanted to work with wildlife, at a time when the modern wildlife management and research profession was in its infancy. After meeting wildlife conservationist and ecologist Aldo Leopold, the Hamerstroms went to Iowa State University to study under Paul Errington. In 1935, Frances earned her Bachelor's Degree from Iowa State University, where she also worked on the topic of predation and the food habits of the great horned owl. After graduating, Frances and Frederick moved to Wisconsin to work at a wildlife refuge and to attend graduate school at the University of Wisconsin under Aldo Leopold. Frances was Leopold's only female graduate student. She earned her Master's degree in wildlife management in 1940. During this time, the Hamerstroms both began their research on the imperiled greater prairie chicken, an endangered species in Wisconsin. In 1949, Frances became the second woman to work as a wildlife professional in Wisconsin.[5] The Hamerstroms both worked for the Department of Natural Resources in Wisconsin. Their lifetime study of the endangered prairie chicken, in a research area that included the Buena Vista and Leola Marshes, was their major contribution to the field. The Hamerstroms focused on the habitat needs of the greater prairie chicken. They developed and initiated a management plan based on their observation that the prairie chicken required a 'checkerboard' pattern of habitat. Frances worked for the Department of Natural Resources for 23 years, and in 1970 the Hamerstroms were awarded with the National Wildlife Federation Award for Distinguished Service to Conservation for their innovative management plan and work with the prairie chickens. The Hamerstroms helped focus public attention on the need for habitat preservation. In 1961 they helped form the 'Society of Tympanuchus Cupido Pinnatus' (Latin term for prairie grouse) to purchase lands (a total of more than 2,000 acres) to be managed for the preservation and restoration of 'native prairie grouse Populations.' Through her fund-raising campaigns, grasslands near their home sheltered more than 2,000 greater prairie chickens. The Hamerstroms are credited by naturalists for saving the prairie chicken from extirpation in Wisconsin. Over the years, an estimated 7,000 wildlife observers (called 'boomers') participated in the collection of necessary data for this project, with Frances playing host to all of them at her home. The Hamerstroms also conducted a decades-long study of the northern harrier. She wrote Harrier: Hawk of the Marshes, published in 1986 by the Smithsonian Institution Press, with illustrations by her husband. It documented the relationship between the breeding success of harriers and the vole population, which constituted their cyclical food supply. Frances noted that the vole abundance determined the harriers' mating system, and documented her findings in a 1985 article 'Effect of Voles on Mating Systems in a Central Wisconsin Population of Harriers' which earned the Edwards Prize for best paper of that year. Frances Hamerstrom was also a licensed falconer. She studied American kestrels and the use of nest boxes as a management tool for kestrels, and banded thousands of raptors in Wisconsin and in other parts of North America during her many travels. She contributed to the book, Peregrine Falcon Populations: Their Biology and Decline (1998)" (quoting from Wikipedia).

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First edition. Inscribed on the title page: "For Kurt, Happy hunting! Fran Hamerstrom."Uncommon signed (her first book,An Eagle to the Sky, is common signed, but her other books seem the opposite). Hamerstrom broke away from an elite--and as she saw it, effete--background in Boston to becomean important woman in ecology and conservation, the only woman to earn a graduate degree from Aldo Leopold (who encouraged her toward those chickens). Ultimately she was theauthor of a dozen books and more than 150 scientific papers. She twice won the Wildlife Society Award. With her late husband Frederick, she also won the 1971 National Wildlife Federation Award for Distinguished Service to Conservation, and she is a member of the WisconsinWriters Hall of Fame. SeeherNew York Timesobitfor more. One of Hamerstrom's later memoirs, Is She Coming Too?is described thusly on its back flap: "With the growing interest in women moving into men's sports and professions, this book should draw readers, not only from those who like good hunting yarns, but also from those who chuckle at--or fume at--some of the barriers she had to overcome. She was not always welcome." One notes that Aldo Leopold's recipes for woodcock is provided within. A near fine book with faint spotting to brown cloth and very light foxing to top text block face; in a very good plus pale jacket with edge wear to top edge, one short tear to front upper corner at flap fold, and a few smudges to rear panel.

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