Reader's Digest North American Wildlife

Reader's Digest North American Wildlife
Title Reader's Digest North American Wildlife PDF eBook
Author Susan J. Wernert
Publisher Readers Digest
Total Pages 584
Release 1982
Genre Nature
ISBN 9780762100200

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Identifies and describes many varieties of mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, trees, and wildflowers found in North America.

North American Wildlife

North American Wildlife
Title North American Wildlife PDF eBook
Author David Jones
Publisher Whitecap Books
Total Pages 0
Release 2006
Genre Nature
ISBN 9781552857649

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Now in paper: A well-illustrated exploration of North American wildlife, featuring a compelling text and 400 intriguing photographs taken in the wild by some of the best wildlife photographers.

The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation

The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation
Title The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation PDF eBook
Author Shane P. Mahoney
Publisher JHU Press
Total Pages 177
Release 2019-09-10
Genre Science
ISBN 1421432811

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The foremost experts on the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation come together to discuss its role in the rescue, recovery, and future of our wildlife resources. At the end of the nineteenth century, North America suffered a catastrophic loss of wildlife driven by unbridled resource extraction, market hunting, and unrelenting subsistence killing. This crisis led powerful political forces in the United States and Canada to collaborate in the hopes of reversing the process, not merely halting the extinctions but returning wildlife to abundance. While there was great understanding of how to manage wildlife in Europe, where wildlife management was an old, mature profession, Continental methods depended on social values often unacceptable to North Americans. Even Canada, a loyal colony of England, abandoned wildlife management as practiced in the mother country and joined forces with like-minded Americans to develop a revolutionary system of wildlife conservation. In time, and surviving the close scrutiny and hard ongoing debate of open, democratic societies, this series of conservation practices became known as the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation. In this book, editors Shane P. Mahoney and Valerius Geist, both leading authorities on the North American Model, bring together their expert colleagues to provide a comprehensive overview of the origins, achievements, and shortcomings of this highly successful conservation approach. This volume • reviews the emergence of conservation in late nineteenth–early twentieth century North America • provides detailed explorations of the Model's institutions, principles, laws, and policies • places the Model within ecological, cultural, and socioeconomic contexts • describes the many economic, social, and cultural benefits of wildlife restoration and management • addresses the Model's challenges and limitations while pointing to emerging opportunities for increasing inclusivity and optimizing implementation Studying the North American experience offers insight into how institutionalizing policies and laws while incentivizing citizen engagement can result in a resilient framework for conservation. Written for wildlife professionals, researchers, and students, this book explores the factors that helped fashion an enduring conservation system, one that has not only rescued, recovered, and sustainably utilized wildlife for over a century, but that has also advanced a significant economic driver and a greater scientific understanding of wildlife ecology. Contributors: Leonard A. Brennan, Rosie Cooney, James L. Cummins, Kathryn Frens, Valerius Geist, James R. Heffelfinger, David G. Hewitt, Paul R. Krausman, Shane P. Mahoney, John F. Organ, James Peek, William Porter, John Sandlos, James A. Schaefer

North American Wildlife Policy and Law

North American Wildlife Policy and Law
Title North American Wildlife Policy and Law PDF eBook
Author Bruce David Leopold
Publisher
Total Pages 0
Release 2017-11
Genre Law
ISBN 9781940860275

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A definitive treatise on natural resource policy and law in North America is a vital resource for undergraduate curricula and wildlife professions--and Boone and Crockett has delivered. This comprehensive text thoroughly examines the history and foundation of policy, reviews and analyzes major federal, state, and provincial laws and policies important to natural resources management, and most uniquely discusses application and practice of policy to ensure sustainability of wildlife, fish and their habitats.

Wildlife in America

Wildlife in America
Title Wildlife in America PDF eBook
Author Peter Matthiessen
Publisher Penguin Group USA
Total Pages 304
Release 1977
Genre Animals
ISBN 9780140047936

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This classic history of the rare, threatened, and extinct animals of North America is a dramatic chronicle of man's role in the disappearance of great and small species of our land. "Should be the number one source volume for everyone who embraces the philosophy of conservation".--Roger Tory Peterson. Illustrations throughout.

Wild by Nature

Wild by Nature
Title Wild by Nature PDF eBook
Author Andrea L. Smalley
Publisher JHU Press
Total Pages 347
Release 2017-06-29
Genre History
ISBN 1421422352

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"Wild by Nature answers the question: how did indigenous animals shape the course of colonization in English America? The book argues that animals acted as obstacles to colonization because their wildness was at odds with Anglo-American legal assertions of possession. Animals and their pursuers transgressed the legal lines officials drew to demarcate colonizers' sovereignty and control over the landscape. Consequently, wild creatures became legal actors in the colonizing process--the subjects of statutes, the issues in court cases, and the parties to treaties--as authorities struggled to both contain and preserve the wildness that made those animals so valuable to English settler societies in North America in the first place. Only after wild creatures were brought under the state's legal ownership and control could the land be rationally organized and possessed. The book examines the colonization of American animals as a separate strand interwoven into a larger story of English colonizing in North America. As such, it proceeds along a different and longer timeline than other colonial histories, tracing a path through various wild animal frontiers from the seventeenth-century Chesapeake into the southern backcountry in the eighteenth century and across the Appalachians in the early nineteenth to end in the southern plains in the decades after the Civil War. Along the way, it maps out an argumentative arc that describes three manifestations of colonization as it variously applied to beavers, wolves, fish, deer, and bison. Wild by Nature engages broad questions about the environment, law, and society in early America"--

Wildlife of North America

Wildlife of North America
Title Wildlife of North America PDF eBook
Author
Publisher Parragon Publishing
Total Pages 260
Release 2006-05
Genre Nature
ISBN 9781405463102

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