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| Edwin Philip Pister | |
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| Born | (1929-01-15)January 15, 1929 Stockton, California, U.S. |
| Died | January 17, 2023(2023-01-17) (aged 94) Bishop, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Fishery biologist, conservationist, deep ecologist |
| Nationality | American |
| Subject | Desert fishes, conservation, environmental ethics |
Edwin Philip Pister (January 15, 1929 – January 17, 2023) was an American fishery biologist who worked for California Department of Fish and Game. 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.
Pister was born in Stockton, California and lived in Bishop, California. A volume compiling studies of desert fishes has been published in his honor. He has written and published scientific and popular papers and has also written about environmental ethics.
Pister helped found the non-profit Desert Fishes Council in 1969, serving as its first president, then as its Executive Secretary until his death.
Audio interviews of him are available in the Bancroft Library at University of California, Berkeley
Pister died in Bishop, California on January 17, 2023, two days after his 94th birthday.
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.
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.
- Ma. De Lourdes Lozano-Vilano; Armando J. Contreras-Balderas, eds. (November 2006). 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. OL 22979888M.
- 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.
- Phil Pister, An Oral History. Retrieved January 23, 2023.
- "Biologist Phil Pister — who singlehandedly saved species from extinction — dead at 94". NPR. January 26, 2023. Retrieved November 17, 2023.
- "Andrea Lawrence Award Dinner". www.monolake.org. Retrieved May 5, 2018.