Author: Jack Ward Thomas and Char Miller
Publisher: NATIONAL BOOK NETWORK, Jul 2015
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 1-940860-14-8
Synopsis
Forks in the Trail is a collection of stories about the experiences that shaped the values, knowledge, skills, and decisions of a field biologist who came from a hardscrabble Texas farm and eventually rose to the pinnacles of natural resource leadership in Washington, D.C. 6x9 inches, 344 pgs.
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Thomas arrived at his new post with a unique set of perspectives and experiences. His formal education and decades of forest, range, and wildlife research had prepared him academically. His rural upbringing and passions for nature, hunting, and sustainable use of natural resources had prepared him pragmatically. But it was basic moxie that ultimately equipped Thomas to confront the most controversial conservation topics of the day, from protecting old-growth timber and spotted owl habitat to the deaths of fourteen wildland firefighters in 1994.
Thomas's life is the story of how conservation and natural resources management happened in America during the second half of the twentieth century. But more than just old war stories, timelines, and reiterations of his curriculum vitae, Forks in the Trail offers intensely personal reflections of life lessons?of the ?foibles, fears, mistakes, adventures, misadventures, successes, failures, and comedies of errors and ego??learned along the way to a full, remarkable career.
