author
William Laughlin Robinson
b. 1933
A wildlife biologist from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, he wrote with the close attention of a field scientist and the warm memory of someone deeply rooted in the north woods. His books range from serious wildlife study to personal stories of fishing and life.
1 Audiobook
An Experimental Translocation of the Eastern Timber Wolf
by Thomas F. Weise, Richard A. Hook, L. David Mech, William Laughlin Robinson
About the author
Born in Ironwood, Michigan, in 1933, William Laughlin Robinson built his career around wildlife biology and the natural world of the Upper Midwest. Sources from Northern Michigan University and the University of Maine say he studied game management at Michigan State University, earned a master’s degree in wildlife biology from the University of Maine in 1959, and later completed a Ph.D. in zoology at the University of Toronto.
Robinson taught in the Biology Department at Northern Michigan University and carried out field research on Michigan wildlife. His published work includes Fool Hen: The Spruce Grouse on the Yellow Dog Plains and Wildlife Ecology and Management, along with other writing tied to conservation and animal ecology.
He also wrote in a more personal vein. Fishing with My Uncles is described as a collection of true stories about fishing and life in mid-1900s mid-America, showing a writer who could move easily between scientific observation and lived experience.