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A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR
William Stolzenburg has studied predator control techniques and monitored endangered species. He has written hundreds of magazine features and columns on the ecology of rarity and extinction for Science News and Nature Conservancy, among others. He lives in Shepherdstown, West Virginia.
Copyright © 2008 by William Stolzenburg
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Mornings Stolzenberg, William.
Where the wild things were : life, death, and ecological wreckage in a land of vanishing predators / William Stolzenberg.—1st U.S. ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 978-1-59691-299-1 (hardcover)
1. Predation (Biology) 2. Predatory animals. 3. Conservation biology. 4. Endangered ecosystems. I. Title.
QL758.S746 2008
577’.16—dc22
2008002392
First published by Bloomsbury USA in 2008
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