The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation

The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation
Author: Shane P. Mahoney,Valerius Geist
Publsiher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2019-09-10
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781421432816

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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

Reader s Digest North American Wildlife

Reader s Digest North American Wildlife
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: Reader's Digest Association
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998
Genre: Birds
ISBN: 0762100362

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With full-color illustrations and range maps throughout, this guide concentrates on abundant, wide-ranging, or conspicuous birds, although mention is made of many other species. To simplify recognition, swimming and wading birds are separated from land birds, and an introductory listing pinpoints distinguished traits and behavior patterns for easy reference. 340 illustrations.

North American Wildlife

North American Wildlife
Author: David Jones
Publsiher: Whitecap Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1552857646

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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.

North American Wildlife Policy and Law

North American Wildlife Policy and Law
Author: Bruce David Leopold,Winifred B. Kessler,James L. Cummins
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-11
Genre: Law
ISBN: 194086027X

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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.

Wild by Nature

Wild by Nature
Author: Andrea L. Smalley
Publsiher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2017-06-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781421422350

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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"--

The Encyclopedia of North American Wildlife

The Encyclopedia of North American Wildlife
Author: Stanley Klein,Tom Aylesworth
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 315
Release: 1983
Genre: Zoology
ISBN: 0458965901

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Transactions of the North American Wildlife Conference

Transactions of the     North American Wildlife Conference
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 508
Release: 1967
Genre: Wildlife conservation
ISBN: UCSC:32106021091381

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Small Animals of North America Coloring Book

Small Animals of North America Coloring Book
Author: Elizabeth A. McClelland
Publsiher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 62
Release: 1981
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 048624217X

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Colorable illustrations of 46 common mammals: armadillo, badger, bobcat, kit fox, kangaroo rat, raccoon, pika, peccary, yellowbelly marmot, marten, ferret, weasel, mink, and many more. Full-color renderings appear on the cover, and captions offer scientific names, family classification, size, range, and more information.