Occasional Papers of the Strecker Museum #4

Wildness at Risk by Glen L. Evans Photographs by Glen L. Evans Drawings by Darla Evans

"[The squirrels] were about two feet apart when they came to a halt midway across the [power line], and with much angry chatter and energetic popping of its tail, each ordered the other to make way for its 'better.' Despite the heated exchange, neither gained nor gave up an inch of ground. Then, all of a sudden, the southbound squirrel made a spectacular arching leap over his northbound rival, landing safely on the cable behind him and running at full speed. Although the way was now clear for the northbound one to proceed on his mission . . . he wheeled about and set off in angry pursuit of the rival . . . "—from Wildness at Risk

In Wildness at Risk, the 88-year-old Evans takes a look back at some of the first observations about the types of nature he encountered as a boy in North Central Texas. He writes of some of his encounters with a wide variety of animals, from longhorns to owls, and presents factual material in a fictional framework that focuses on the relationship between man and animals, both domesticated and wild, and the hope that all can find a better way to co-exist.

"Glen shares with us some of his experiences with animals from mosquitoes to longhorns, coyotes to owls, and you can learn a lot about people, too, in his stories. . . . Observing nature came as naturally to Glen as breathing. . . . he is one of those complex naturalists we thought had all gone extinct."—Michael B. Collins

GLEN L. EVANS is known as the "dean of Texas paleontology" and as the "father of geoarcheology." He was the first individual to investigate the Odessa Meteorite Crater, the most studied crater in the world.

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Wildness at Risk
ISBN 1-878804-16-2
$24.95s

6x9. 316 pp. 5 b&w photos. 24 line drawings.
Natural History.

Publication Date: 1997.

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