Arizona Wildlife

During my undergraduate degree, I decided to take a cartography class and during this cartography class it just so happened that one of my Conservation Biology professors, Dave Brown, needed some maps made for his next book published with Arizona Game & Fish.

I jumped at the chance to use this publication as my final project.  This opportunity came about in 2003, the book, Arizona Wildlife was finally published in 2010.  So grateful to be apart of his legacy of books for history of wildlife in Arizona from this naturalist hero.

Dave Brown taught my favorite class in my undergrad, Wildlife Techniques, half of a decade later he was name Educator of the Year.  Currently, he’s on the advisory board for the McDowell Sonoran Conservancy so I’m lucky to still be in contact with him today and will be working on some dynamic maps for him in his current research.

http://www.gf.state.az.us/i_e/pubs/wildlifeHistory.shtml

Do you ever wonder what hunting and fishing were like in Arizona Territory? Did our pioneering forefathers find wildlife more plentiful then? Arizona Wildlife: The Territorial Years, 1863–1912 shows readers what it was like when most meals were obtained out-of-doors, and there were no paved roads, no large reservoirs and few restaurants. You may be surprised to learn that some wildlife species were always scarce and that others, now common, were non-existent then. Which ones were which? The answers make interesting reading.