Wired Wilderness: Technologies of Tracking and the Making of Modern Wildlife

by Etienne Benson

American wildlife biologists first began fitting animals with radio transmitters in the 1950s. By the 1980s the practice had proven so useful to scientists and nonscientists alike that it became global. Wired Wilderness is the first book-length study of the origin, evolution, use, and impact of these now-commonplace tracking technologies.

Combining approaches from environmental history, the history of science and technology, animal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801897106
• ISBN13: 9780801897108
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"