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Ian McTaggart-Cowan: The Legacy of a Pioneering Biologist, Educator and Conservationist
Harbour Publishing has released Ian McTaggart-Cowan: The Legacy of a Pioneering Biologist, Educator and Conservationist (Harbour, $49.95), co-edited by R. Wayne Campbell with Ronald D. Jakimchuk and Dennis A. Demarchi, slightly in advance of Penn's book.
Ian McTaggart-Cowan died on April 18, 2010, at the age of 99. The co-written biography from Campbell et al. was commenced as a project to mark his hoped-for 100th birthday.
McTaggart-Cowan's milestones were many: he was the founder of the first Canadian university wildlife department and his early work in Canada's national parks became the basis for wildlife conservation and environmental education.
McTaggart-Cowan addressed issues from climate change to endangered species before these topics were on the public's radar.
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1910, McTaggart-Cowan came to Canada in 1913. He taught in the zoology department of UBC from 1945 to 1975, serving as head of the faculty from 1953 to 1964.
At UBC, where McTaggart-Cowan became dean of Graduate Studies from 1964 to 1975, he served as an inspiration for David Suzuki's populist approach to science and environmental activism. McTaggart-Cowan's two widely-seen programs on national television in the 1960s, The Living Sea and The Web of Life, prompted Suzuki to create The Nature of Things.
McTaggart-Cowan was similarly a scientific forefather for prolific naturalist and bird expert R. Wayne Campbell, one of the editors of The Birds of British Columbia (UBC Press 2001).
978-1-55017-623-0
Ian McTaggart-Cowan died on April 18, 2010, at the age of 99. The co-written biography from Campbell et al. was commenced as a project to mark his hoped-for 100th birthday.
McTaggart-Cowan's milestones were many: he was the founder of the first Canadian university wildlife department and his early work in Canada's national parks became the basis for wildlife conservation and environmental education.
McTaggart-Cowan addressed issues from climate change to endangered species before these topics were on the public's radar.
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1910, McTaggart-Cowan came to Canada in 1913. He taught in the zoology department of UBC from 1945 to 1975, serving as head of the faculty from 1953 to 1964.
At UBC, where McTaggart-Cowan became dean of Graduate Studies from 1964 to 1975, he served as an inspiration for David Suzuki's populist approach to science and environmental activism. McTaggart-Cowan's two widely-seen programs on national television in the 1960s, The Living Sea and The Web of Life, prompted Suzuki to create The Nature of Things.
McTaggart-Cowan was similarly a scientific forefather for prolific naturalist and bird expert R. Wayne Campbell, one of the editors of The Birds of British Columbia (UBC Press 2001).
978-1-55017-623-0
Submitted on August 31, 2015 in By David.
