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Action, The: complexity of, 125, 126, 127–28, 129–30; effects of, 124, 126, 131; expense, 123, 128–29, 321n. 26; nature of, 119; need for, 119, 122, 126, 128; opposition to, 124, 321n. 14; records of, 320n. 1, 322n. 32; response to effort, 124; U.S. originators, 125 Agricultural Stabilization Office, 7 Airplane spraying, 175–76, 205–6 Alaska Wildlife Refuge Act, 279 Albert, A. R., 143 Amazon, 295–96 American Midland Naturalist, 132 American Ornithological Union (AOU), 89, 122, 196 American Wildlife Conference, 233 Ammann, Andy, 159, 246 Ammann, Ellen, 123 Anderson, Ray, 197, 243, 246, 290 Archives of American Falconry, 232 Art, wildlife, 6, 176–77 Audubon Society, 164, 166 Auk, The, 119, 128 Bancroft Sportsman’s Club, 161 Banding, 145, 206, 230, 241–45; band design , 94, 152; reading, 4, 149, 151, 170, 172 Barnes, Shirley, 100 Beals, Beauveau, 46 Beauvoir, Simone de, 278 Berg, Birger, 138 Berger, Dan, 188, 199, 203, 230, 234, 273, 329n. 13; Cedar Grove and, 232; on Fran, 229 Berkeley, Cyril, 280 Berkeley, Kathleen, 280 Beske, Alan (gabboon), 239–40 Best, John, 169 Biodiversity, 244 Biota, Ebner’s, 137–41, 322n. 16, 323n. 18 Birding with a Purpose, 230, 231–32 Blake, Jimmy, 77, 79–80, 92 Blanchard, Frank, 280 Blanchard, Frieda, 280 Blind (viewing station), 3, 4, 169, 171, 180; improvised, 105 BOOM!, 167 Booming, 3–5, 169–73; demands of, 172, 173 Booth, Tip, 191 Boston Museum of Natural History, 21 Bounty, fox, 161–62 Buena Vista. See Marsh Canadian Wildlife Service, 301 CARE, 120, 122, 123 Carnie, Kent, 232 Cedar Grove, 199, 232, 332n. 14 Chamberlain, Harry, 191 Chamberlain, Mrs., 269, 336n. 7 Chase, grandmother, 17, 49 Chase, William (Uncle Billy), 49–50 Chicago Academy of Science, 254 Christisen, Don, 197 Citizen’s Natural Resource Association, 159 341 Index Connecticut River flood, 36–37 Conover, Lloyd, 156 Conservation, 93; botany in, 60, 75, 88; as career, 55; current status of, 300; educating in, 90, 91; Hamerstroms, case history in, 10; hunting, use of, 95–96; public readiness for, 75; research as base, 56–57, 82, 302 Conservation biology, 308 Conservation Reserve Program, 307 Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit, 57 Copelin, Farrell, 203 Corey, Dick, 143, 144 Couples, scientific, 279–80 Cox, W. T., 75, 77, 107 Cranes, sandhill, 75, 156, 268, 298 Crawford, Larry, 265, 271 Creative Couples in the Sciences, 279 Croy, Harry, 178, 208 Dane County Conservation League, 165, 169 Darrow, Clarence, 24, 35–36, 209 Darrow, Clarence and Ruby, 58, 64, 89; as confidants, 61–63 Darrow, Ruby Hamerstrom, 23, 24, 31, 32, 35, 36, 43, 64–65, 98, 209 Davis, Helen Harper (Hammy’s mother), 24–26, 28 Davis, Louise Harper (Hammy’s grandmother ), 13–15, 17, 18, 26–27, 311n. 25 Davis, (Hammy’s grandfather), 28 Dartmouth College, 34–40, 45–46 Deer, 75, 78, 80; overpopulation, 92, 132, 133, 135, 136; season, 148, 203 Deerwester, Dick, 163, 165, 169 Department of Natural Resources, Wisconsin (DNR), 57, 244, 247, 248 Depression, agricultural, 68 Depression, Great, 54, 68, 69–75 Development versus environment, 5, 26, 102 Drake, Paul, 234 Ducks Unlimited, 54 Duffey, David, 189, 190, 328n. 23 Dust storms, 70–71, 315n. 15 Eagle, 18, 174, 230–31, 276, 277, 276, 304 Eagle to the Sky, An, 229, 251, 276 Ebner, Adalbert, 137–40, 224, 321n. 14, 323n. 18 Ebner-Hain, Silvia, 224 Elder, Nina Leopold, 224 Ellarson, Robert, 328n. 32 Emlen, John, 25, 123, 179–80, 260, 326n. 36 Emlen, Steven, 178–79 Emlen, Virginia (Ginny), 123, 288 Errington, Carolyn, 60, 62, 107, 266, 313n. 16 Errington, Paul L., 57–64, 81, 243, 308 Estrada Aras, Porfirio Carlos (doctor), 257–58 Evans, Keith, 199 Falcon, 21, 195, 253–54, 301; breeding of, 303 Falconry, 195, 329n. 4 Farm and Home Administration, 69 Farmers, 71–72, 73–75, 82–83, 148; marsh, 181, 183, 184, 186, 188 Farming, corporate: as threat, 144, 204–5; patterns, 144, 187, 305 Feeney, Bill, 97–98 Fieldwork, 60, 64, 213 Fire: in marshes, 69, 70, 77; suppression, 157 Fish and Wildlife Service, 254 Flint Hills, Kans., 196 Flint, Bertram, 14, 22, 50, 54 Flint, Helen (Fran’s grandmother), 13–18, 310n. 5 Flint, Helen Chase (Posey), 21, 47, 48, 50, 73, 147, 209, 216, 269, 331n. 4; death, 22–23, 210; generosity, 21, 22–23, 53; as grandmother, 21, 147, 209, 311n. 15; hosted for Fran, 203, 221; illness, 14 Flint, Laurence B., 13–15, 17, 21, 22, 50, 55; Flint, Putnam, 14, 15, 18, 21, 22, 23...

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