Review Reviewed Work(s): The Swift Fox: Ecology and Conservation of Swift Foxes in a Changing World by Marsha A. Sovada and Ludwig Carbyn Review by: Raymond S. Matlack Source: Great Plains Research, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Fall 2005), pp. 345-346 Published by: University of Nebraska Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/23779555 Accessed: 18-10-2016 00:06 UTC JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
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346 Great Plains Research Vol. 15 No. 2, 2005
Physiology/Disease—the book's articles provide a thorough h
conservation efforts from petition to removal from candidate the formation and work of the SFCT.
While no edited collection of papers can cover every top
focus on every region within a species's geographic range,
close. I was especially impressed with the thoroughness of th
citations: few papers on swift foxes escaped inclusion. Sev
broaden the volume's scope and contribute to its usefulness
Overall, The Swift Fox clearly illustrates what appears to be
cess story that can serve as a blueprint for the conservation of ot
a valued addition to the library of biologists in the Great Plains a
Raymond S. Matlack, in conservation biology or .candid conservation. Raymond S.
of Life, Earth, and Environmental Sciences, West Texas A&M U
Teaching in Eden: Lessons from Cedar Point. By John Jan
Routledge, 2003. x + 187 pp. References, index. $95.00 clot
This is the rousing story of a rebel university professor w
year career passionately committed to teaching science stud
rather than lecturing to them about science. Janovy's teach
at the Cedar Point Biological Station (CPBS) on the south sh
in Keith County, Nebraska, and at the University of Nebra
campus can be described as an ongoing quest to bring the w its context from Cedar Point to the "pedagogical poverty" hall setting in Lincoln. Focusing on ways to bring the lessons from Cedar Point
Janovy takes the reader through detailed chapters describi
course, create authentic writing assignments, find appropri
student-generated research questions, create an original r with the death of specimens, and how to facilitate "Big Talk"
setting. He ends with a dialogue about what it takes to "Bui
The book's overarching theme is exemplified in his own w
first class at CPBS, I came away with a fundamental princip
often seems completely lost on administrators, as well as on
faculty members, namely that students must —must—-have
if you don't have it at your immediate disposal, then you have
to make it, or find it in places where it's not supposed to be."
what he has done, adapting routine activities from the Field at Cedar Point to the large lecture hall.
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