Phil Pister

Edwin Philip Pister
Born (1929-01-15)January 15, 1929
Stockton, California
Occupation Fishery Biologist, Conservationist, Deep Ecologist
Nationality American
Subject Desert fishes, conservation, environmental ethics

Edwin "Phil" 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]

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

References

  1. ↑ ROBERTS, RICH (1 August 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.
  2. ↑ Pister, E. P. Species in a bucket. Natural History Magazine (January 1993). pg 14. Retrieved September 29, 2011.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ 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 and Armando J. Contreras-Balderas. 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.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ .Springer, Craig. "Pioneers: Edwin "Phil" Pister". Fish and Aquatic Conservation. US Fish and Wildlife Service. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
  7. ↑ "Andrea Lawrence Award Dinner". www.monolake.org. Retrieved 5 May 2018.
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