Thoughts from a Virginia Cabin

by Robert H. Giles, Jr., Ph.D.

with a special contribution on Yellowjackets in the Forest

by Kenneth Stein, PhD, Conservation Management Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia

Blacksburg, Virginia, 1995 (with minor revisions in 1999 and 2000)

These units are free to you to download and read. It was written by the author for you. Rights to publish it or distribute it in other forms may be purchased cheaply.

The chapters have been edited and graphics added and improved and are now available with many units of The Trevey on a CD, an e-book. I am grateful for the work of Mr. Hayward Shepherd. The CD is compatible with standard E-book Readers. It is not compatible with the non-standard Microsoft Reader. To order a pre-release copy, send a check for $19.95 to
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Peculiar Manor is a log cabin in a Virginia mountain forest (near Salem, Virginia) next to a 7000-acre state wildlife area. Peculiar Manor is also a book about the author's philosophy, experience. It is based on his very diverse, 40-year career in forestry, wildlife conservation, and environmental management. This book is a walk in the woods with an experienced wildland manager. It is also provides reflections during his long evenings by the fireside on conditions that now affect the great outdoors and its management. He suggests what must be done.

This book supports the distance-learning courses titled Essentials of Wildlife Resource Management and Gamma Theory- Modern Wildlife Resource Management.

This is also a book for some back-yard bird watchers, environmentalists, and nature lovers as well as the basis for potentially exciting discussions in graduate seminars in natural resource management. (Throughout the text there are links to other materials within the author's website, www.LastingForests.com.)

Table of Contents

        Preface

1. One Pathway
2. A Walk Through the Woods
3. The Havens Project
4. By the Fire
5. A Systems Approach
6. Rasking
7. Special Wildlife Places
8. New Wildlife Into an Area
9. Why Ring Birds
10. Yellowjackets in the Forest - by Ken Stein, Ph.D., Conservation Management Institute
11. Deer
12. Therapeutic Environments
13. Sustainability
14. The Geodesic Corporation and Setterain
15. Beyond Dynaplan
16. Wildlife Management: Escaping the Force Field of Biology
17. Widlife Management in the University
18. On Knowing
19. Knowledge Base
20. Natural Heuristics
21. Viewing Posts: The Arguement for a Foreign Language Requirement
22. Silvan Hedonists
23. Now Old