The Wildlife Management Institute (WMI) is very pleased to announce that its awarding-winning book, North American Elk: Ecology and Management, is back in circulation. Furthermore, it now is available directly from WMI and at a remarkable savings from the original price.

The book all but disappeared several years ago when its publisher, Smithsonian Institution Press, went under. Only recently was WMI able to acquire the lost (warehoused) inventory and regain full rights to the work.

North American Elk: Ecology and Management, edited by Dale E. Toweill and Jack Ward Thomas and illustrated by Daniel P. Metz, was published in late 2002. The 962-page opus was honored with The Wildlife Society's Editorship Award in 2003. It offers state-of-the-science information on the animal and on its scientific and professional management, including chapters on taxonomy, distribution, history, physiology, nutrition, diseases and parasites, behavior, interaction, population, migration, habitat and ecosystem management, and recreational use. The book also offers two photo sections, one color and one historical. Also incorporated are 180 figures, 124 tables, more than 700 black and white photographs and two scientific-name appendices. It is a comprehensive look at elk populations found on this continent, human impacts on and interaction with them, and management of the species.

Originally selling for $85.00, North American Elk: Ecology and Management now can be obtained for $42.50 (a 50-percent discount) plus $7.00 shipping (within North America), for as long as the first-edition, first-printing inventory remains. For orders of three or more, the cost per book is $39.50 plus at-cost shipping. To order, go to www.wildlifemanagementinstitute.org/Publications.htm or, contact Jennifer Rahm at jrahm@wildlifemgt.org or write to WMI Publications, 1146 19th Street, NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20036.

January 2020 Update: This book is no longer in print and all available copies have been sold. This book is not scheduled for a reprint.