| Battle Against Extinction: Native Fish Management in the American West Wendell L. Minckley is a professor of zoology at Arizona State University and has worked as a senior fishery biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. He is also the author of Fishes of Arizona and of more than one hundred other papers on fishes and aquatic systems in deserts. James E. Deacon is a distinguished professor and former chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has published more than seventy papers on the biology and conservation of desert fishes. |