Phil Pister
Edwin Philip Pister is a fishery biologist who worked for California Department of Fish and Game.[1] He was a pioneer of desert fish conservation, and is credited with saving the Owens pupfish (Cyprinodon radiosis) by transferring the entire remaining population into several buckets and transporting them to a safe location.[2][3]
Edwin Philip Pister | |
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| Born | January 15, 1929 Stockton, California |
| Occupation | Fishery Biologist, Conservationist, Deep Ecologist |
| Nationality | American |
| Subject | Desert fishes, conservation, environmental ethics |
Pister was born in Stockton, California and currently lives in Bishop, California. A volume compiling studies of desert fishes has been published in his honor.[4] He has written and published scientific and popular papers and has also written about environmental ethics.[5]
He has served as executive secretary of the Desert Fishes Council.[6]
Awards
- Order of the Jassid (for conservation) from Sierra Pacific Flyfishers
- President's Fishery Conservation Award from the American Fisheries Society
- The Edward T. LaRoe III Memorial Award from the Society for Conservation Biology.
- 2018 Andrea Lawrence Award from the Mono Lake Committee.[7]
References
- ROBERTS, RICH (August 1, 1990). "Fish Came First : Phil Pister Didn't Make a Lot of Friends, but He Made a Mark in 37 Years at DFG". Los Angeles Times.
- Pister, E. P. Species in a bucket. Archived June 25, 2009, at Archive-It Natural History Magazine (January 1993). pg 14. Retrieved October 27, 2021.
- Terrill, C. "Islands". In: Albert, S. W. What Wildness is This: Women Write About the Southwest. University of Texas Press. (2007). pg 129. Retrieved September 29, 2011.
- Dean A. Hendrickson, David A. Neely, Richard L. Mayden, Karl Anderson, James E. Brooks, Faustino Camarena-Rosales, Ralph Clitter, Lisa Cutter, Anna Bellia De Los Santos, Guy W. Ernsting, Hector Espinosa-Perez, Lloyd T. Findley, Francisco J. Garcia-De León, Anna L. George, John Hatch, Bernard R. Kuhajda, Kyle E. Mayden, Kristina Mcnyset, Jennifer L. Nielseni, Frank W. Pfeifer, David L. Propst, Gorgonio Ruiz-Campos, Eric St. Clair, Joseph R. Tomelleri and Alejandro Varela-Romero (November 2006). "Conservation of Mexican Native Trout and The Discovery, Status, Protection and Recovery Of The Conchos Trout, The First Native". In Ma. De Lourdes Lozano-Vilano; Armando J. Contreras-Balderas (eds.). Studies of North American Desert Fishes in Honor of E.P.(Phil) Pister Conservationist. Monterrey, Mexico: Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo Leon. ISBN 970-694-336-6.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link) - Pister, E. Phil (1995). "The Rights of Species and Ecosystems". Fisheries. 20 (4). Archived from the original on August 22, 2006. Retrieved April 25, 2006.
- .Springer, Craig. "Pioneers: Edwin "Phil" Pister". Fish and Aquatic Conservation. US Fish and Wildlife Service. Retrieved May 9, 2015.
- "Andrea Lawrence Award Dinner". www.monolake.org. Retrieved May 5, 2018.
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