Mice in the Freezer, Owls on the Porch: The Lives of Naturalists Frederick and Francis Hamerstrom

Contents

Contents Foreword by George Archibald xi Acknowledgments xv 1 Prologue 3 2 The Complexities of Childhood 13 3 Self-Discovery and Love 34 4 Students, Teachers, and New Horizons 53 5 Conservation Beginnings in a Midwestern Appalachia 67 6 Enter Leopold and the Chickens 88 7 An Interruption: World War II 110 8 The Action: Postwar Scientific Solidarity 119 9 The Return: Deer and a Decision 132 10 The Setting, the Task 142 11 Booming Chickens and a Land Boom 157 12 The Prairie Chicken War 181 13 Hamerstroms’ Kingdom: The Complexities of Success 194 14 A Naturalist Family 208 15 Of Hawks, Humans, and Freedom 227 16 Free at Last 248 17 The Making of a Legend 265 18 Death of a Biologist 282 ix 19 Fran 290 20 A Postscript 300 Notes 309 Index 340 x ...