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William Laughlin Robinson
b. 1933
A wildlife biologist and longtime professor whose work helped shape how generations of students learned conservation and wildlife management. He is best known for writing a widely used textbook in the field and for research centered on North American wildlife.
2 Audiobooks
An Experimental Translocation of the Eastern Timber Wolf
by Richard A. Hook, L. David Mech, William Laughlin Robinson, Thomas F. Weise
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 1933 in Ironwood, Michigan, he built a career around the study of wildlife and the practical challenges of managing it well. He studied game management at Michigan State University, earned a master's degree in wildlife biology from the University of Maine in 1959, completed a Ph.D. in zoology at the University of Toronto, and later did postdoctoral work in systems ecology at San Diego State University.
From 1964 until his retirement in 1998, he served as a biology professor at Northern Michigan University. Archival material from the university describes him as a national authority on wildlife management, and his published work included many professional articles as well as books that reached a wider academic audience.
He is especially associated with Wildlife Ecology and Management, a leading textbook in the field, and with Fool Hen, the Spruce Grouse on the Yellow Dog Plains, a book drawn from field research. His writing reflects a career spent connecting scientific study with the real-world stewardship of animal populations and habitats.