Mountain Goat

Author : Marco Festa-Bianchet,Steeve D. Côté
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781597267731

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Mountain Goats by Marco Festa-Bianchet,Steeve D. Côté Pdf

Mountain goats have been among the least studied of North American ungulates, leaving wildlife managers with little information on which to base harvest strategies or conservation plans. This book offers the first comprehensive assessment of the ecology and behavior of mountain goats, setting forth the results of a remarkable 16-year longitudinal study of more than 300 marked individuals in a population in Alberta, Canada. The authors’ thorough, long-term study allowed them to draw important conclusions about mountain goat ecology—including individual reproductive strategies, population dynamics, and sensitivity to human disturbance—and to use those conclusions in offering guidance for developing effective conservation strategies. Chapters examine: -habitat use, vegetation quality, and seasonal movements -sexual segregation and social organization -individual variability in yearly and lifetime reproductive success of females -age- and sex-specific survival and dispersal -reproductive strategies and population dynamics -management and conservation of mountain goats The book also draws on the rich literature on long-term monitoring of marked ungulates to explore similarities and differences between mountain goats and other species, particularly bighorn sheep and ibex. By monitoring a marked population over a long period of time, researchers were able to document changes in sex-age structure and identify factors driving population dynamics. Because it explores the links between individual life-history strategy and population dynamics in a natural setting, Mountain Goats will be an invaluable resource for wildlife managers, researchers in ecology and animal behavior, conservationists, population biologists, and anyone concerned with the ecology and management of natural populations, especially in alpine environments.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2002-02-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0803264216

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A Beast the Color of Winter by Anonim Pdf

"In North America there is one large animal that belongs almost entirely to the realm of towering rock and unmelting snow. Pressing hard against the upper limit of life's possibilities, it exists higher and steeper throughout the year than any other big beast on the continent. It is possibly the best and most complete mountaineer that ever existed on any continent. Oreamnos americanus is its scientific name. Its common name is mountain goat." Resourceful, belligerent, and unbelievably sure-footed, the mountain goat is a white-coated survivor from the Ice Age. Oreamnos americanus shares its dizzying alpine world with elk, eagles, bighorn sheep, and grizzlies. This first full-length book on the mountain goat offers a superbly written portrait of its life, habits, and environment. Douglas H. Chadwick tracked mountain goat herds for seven years, and his observations are richly textured and replete with fascinating and dramatic details. We learn of the mountain goats' lives from birth to adulthood, their feeding habits, unique social behavior and courtship rituals, and their long history. Chadwick also makes clear the troubling and escalating impact of the modern world on the mountain goat's wilderness home. This Bison Books edition features a new introduction by the author.

Author : David Vann
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062121110

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Goat Mountain by David Vann Pdf

Explore new worlds in this riveting sci-fi novel In David Vann’s searing novel Goat Mountain, an 11-year-old boy at his family’s annual deer hunt is eager to make his first kill. His father discovers a poacher on the land, a 640-acre ranch in Northern California, and shows him to the boy through the scope of his rifle. With this simple gesture, tragedy erupts, shattering lives irrevocably. In prose devastating and beautiful in its precision, David Vann creates a haunting and provocative novel that explores our most primal urges and beliefs, the bonds of blood and religion that define and secure us, and the consequences of our actions—what we owe for what we’ve done. David Vann is the award-winning author of Legend of a Suicide, Caribou Island, A Mile Down, and Last Day on Earth.

Author : Duncan Gilchrist
Publisher : Pictorial Histories Publishing Company
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Mountain goat hunting
ISBN : 0933126360

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Hunting the Rocky Mountain Goat by Duncan Gilchrist Pdf

Author : Lindsay Shaffer
Publisher : Bellwether Media
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781618915559

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Mountain Goats by Lindsay Shaffer Pdf

No one climbs mountains like a mountain goat can! These nimble-footed critters easily scale steep slopes. Beginning readers will learn all about the adaptations that help mountain goats flourish in their rocky biome, from hard hooves to shaggy fur. Features including diet sidebars and range map support and add clarity to the text in this colorful, informative title.

Author : Debbie M. Ketel
Publisher : Mount Rushmore History Asso
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Mountain goat
ISBN : 0975261738

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One Baby Mountain Goat by Debbie M. Ketel Pdf

Using rhyming text, teaches counting from one to ten with factual information about mountain goats in the side panels, in a book with pictures hidden beneath the flaps. On board pages.

Author : Madison Grant
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066096328

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The Rocky Mountain Goat by Madison Grant Pdf

Madison Grant played an active role in wildlife and environmental preservation and discussed the special rocky mountain goat. This book describes the characteristics of the rocky mountain goat in comparison with the mountain sheep and mountain antelope among others. He also describes some specific physiological features and internal features of the animal including the skull.

Author : Tom Gilb,Susannah Finzi
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Professional
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015013062834

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Principles of Software Engineering Management by Tom Gilb,Susannah Finzi Pdf

This practical guide is designed to assist professionals with the problems involved in developing complex software systems, presenting a set of guidelines and tools to manage the technical and organisational aspects of software engineering projects

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Farcountry Press
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1560374721

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Mountain Goats of Glacier National Park by Anonim Pdf

Harada treks to the far reaches of Glacier National Park to document its iconic wild animal, the mountain goat. Harada has spent the last eighteen years studying and photographing these agile creatures, capturing rare and awe-inspiring images in each of Glacier's spectacular seasons. Experience the dramas that play out on the Park's knife-edge peaks among the Mountain Goats of Glacier National Park. Biologist and writer Kathleen Yale lends her sensitive and insightful writing to the book, detailing the fascinating behaviors of these unique animals, from the bliss of spring to the challenges of winter.

Author : John Darnielle
Publisher : MCD
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374717674

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Devil House by John Darnielle Pdf

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “It’s never quite the book you think it is. It’s better.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times From John Darnielle, the New York Times bestselling author and the singer-songwriter of the Mountain Goats, comes an epic, gripping novel about murder, truth, and the dangers of storytelling. Gage Chandler is descended from kings. That’s what his mother always told him. Years later, he is a true crime writer, with one grisly success—and a movie adaptation—to his name, along with a series of subsequent less notable efforts. But now he is being offered the chance for the big break: to move into the house where a pair of briefly notorious murders occurred, apparently the work of disaffected teens during the Satanic Panic of the 1980s. Chandler finds himself in Milpitas, California, a small town whose name rings a bell––his closest childhood friend lived there, once upon a time. He begins his research with diligence and enthusiasm, but soon the story leads him into a puzzle he never expected—back into his own work and what it means, back to the very core of what he does and who he is. Devil House is John Darnielle’s most ambitious work yet, a book that blurs the line between fact and fiction, that combines daring formal experimentation with a spellbinding tale of crime, writing, memory, and artistic obsession.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Lerner Publications
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0822530007

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Mountain Goats by Anonim Pdf

Introduces the life cycle, habits, and behavior of the Rocky Mountain goat, the only large animal to live at or above the tree line all year round

Author : Patricia Whitehouse
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2002-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1588108902

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Mountain Goat by Patricia Whitehouse Pdf

An introduction to mountain goats, including their size, diet, and everyday behavior and highlighting differences between those in the wild and those living in zoos.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1560375442

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Mountain Goat Babies! by Anonim Pdf

Follows mountain goat babies as they play, climb, and rest.

Author : Shafqat Hussain
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780295746586

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The Snow Leopard and the Goat by Shafqat Hussain Pdf

Following the downgrading of the snow leopard’s status from “endangered” to “vulnerable” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature in 2017, debate has renewed about the actual number of snow leopards in the wild and the most effective strategies for coexisting with these enigmatic animals. Evidence from Pakistan and other countries in the snow leopard’s home range shows that they rely heavily on human society—domestic livestock accounts for as much as 70 percent of their diet. Maintaining that the snow leopard is a “wild” animal, conservation NGOs and state agencies have enacted laws that punish farmers for attacking these predators, while avoiding engaging with efforts to mitigate the harms suffered by farmers whose herds are reduced by snow leopards. This ethnography examines the uneven distribution of costs and benefits involved in snow leopard conservation and shows that for the conservation of nature to be successful, the vision, interests, and priorities of those most affected by conservation policies—in this case, local farmers—must be addressed. A case history of Project Snow Leopard in the mountains of northern Pakistan, which inspired similar programs in India, Bhutan, Nepal, Mongolia, Afghanistan and Tajikistan, describes how the animal’s food habits are studied, how elusive individuals are counted, and how a novel kind of “snow leopard insurance” has protected the species by compensating farmers for livestock losses. The Snow Leopard and the Goat demonstrates that characterizing this conflict as one between humans (farmers) and wildlife (snow leopards) is misleading, as the real conflict is between two human groups—farmers and conservationists—who see the snow leopard differently.

Author : Mike Cohn
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Professional
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780132702645

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User Stories Applied by Mike Cohn Pdf

Thoroughly reviewed and eagerly anticipated by the agile community, User Stories Applied offers a requirements process that saves time, eliminates rework, and leads directly to better software. The best way to build software that meets users' needs is to begin with "user stories": simple, clear, brief descriptions of functionality that will be valuable to real users. In User Stories Applied, Mike Cohn provides you with a front-to-back blueprint for writing these user stories and weaving them into your development lifecycle. You'll learn what makes a great user story, and what makes a bad one. You'll discover practical ways to gather user stories, even when you can't speak with your users. Then, once you've compiled your user stories, Cohn shows how to organize them, prioritize them, and use them for planning, management, and testing. User role modeling: understanding what users have in common, and where they differ Gathering stories: user interviewing, questionnaires, observation, and workshops Working with managers, trainers, salespeople and other "proxies" Writing user stories for acceptance testing Using stories to prioritize, set schedules, and estimate release costs Includes end-of-chapter practice questions and exercises User Stories Applied will be invaluable to every software developer, tester, analyst, and manager working with any agile method: XP, Scrum... or even your own home-grown approach.