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Return to Wild America
Author | : Scott Weidensaul |
Publsiher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 557 |
Release | : 2006-10-31 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781429931922 |
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In 1953, birding guru Roger Tory Peterson and noted British naturalist James Fisher set out on what became a legendary journey-a one hundred day trek over 30,000 miles around North America. They traveled from Newfoundland to Florida, deep into the heart of Mexico, through the Southwest, the Pacific Northwest, and into Alaska's Pribilof Islands. Two years later, Wild America, their classic account of the trip, was published. On the eve of that book's fiftieth anniversary, naturalist Scott Weidensaul retraces Peterson and Fisher's steps to tell the story of wild America today. How has the continent's natural landscape changed over the past fifty years? How have the wildlife, the rivers, and the rugged, untouched terrain fared? The journey takes Weidensaul to the coastal communities of Newfoundland, where he examines the devastating impact of the Atlantic cod fishery's collapse on the ecosystem; to Florida, where he charts the virtual extinction of the great wading bird colonies that Peterson and Fisher once documented; to the Mexican tropics of Xilitla, which have become a growing center of ecotourism since Fisher and Peterson's exposition. And perhaps most surprising of all, Weidensaul finds that much of what Peterson and Fisher discovered remains untouched by the industrial developments of the last fifty years. Poised to become a classic in its own right, Return to Wild America is a sweeping survey of the natural soul of North America today.
Wild America
Author | : Roger Tory Peterson,James Fisher |
Publsiher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0395864976 |
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An illustrated 30,000-mile tour of the continent.
Return of the Wolf
Author | : Paula Wild |
Publsiher | : Douglas & McIntyre |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2018-10-13 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781771622073 |
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Wolves were once common throughout North America and Eurasia. But by the early twentieth century, bounties and organized hunts had drastically reduced their numbers. Today, the wolf is returning to its ancestral territories, and the “coywolf”—a smaller, bolder wolf-coyote hybrid—is becoming more common. In Return of the Wolf, author Paula Wild gathers first-hand accounts of encounters with wolves and consults with wildlife experts for suggestions on how minimize conflict, respond to aggressive wolves and coexist with the apex predator. Wild explores the latest theories on how wolves became dogs, the evolving strategies to prevent livestock predation, and why Eurasian wolves seem more aggressive toward humans than their North American cousins. She also addresses the many misconceptions about wolves: for example, that they howl when hungry, kill for pleasure and always live in packs. What is true is that a wolf possesses a howl as unique as a human fingerprint and can trot eight kilometres per hour for most of the day or night in search of prey while using earth’s magnetic field to find its way. Some scientists consider wolves’ complex social structures and family bonds closer to humans’ than those of primates. In a skillful blend of natural history, Indigenous stories and interviews with scientists and conservationists, Wild examines our evolving relationship with wolves and how society’s attitudes affect the populations, behaviour and conservation of wolves today. As a highly social, intelligent animal, the wolf is proving adept at navigating the challenges of an ever-changing landscape. But their fate remains uncertain. Wolves are adapting to humans; can humans adapt to wolves?
Return of Royalty
Author | : Dale E. Toweill,Valerius Geist |
Publsiher | : Boone & Crockett Club |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Bighorn sheep |
ISBN | : WISC:89070927975 |
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This book is a celebration of the return of wild sheep to many of its historical ranges. The remarkable recovery of our wild sheep populations have been documented by two widely-respected wildlife biologists and provides fascinating accounts of the decline and recovery of North American wild sheep.
Hunger for the Wild
Author | : Michael L. Johnson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 562 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UVA:X030112643 |
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Americans have had an enduring yet ambivalent obsession with the West as both a place and a state of mind. Michael L. Johnson considers how that obsession originated, how it has determined attitudes toward and activities in the West, and how it has changed over the centuries.
Marty Stouffer s Wild America
Author | : Marty Stouffer |
Publsiher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0812916107 |
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Based upon his highly successful public television series, the author looks at some of the most fascinating wildlife of North America, focusing upon such issues as endangered species and important stages in an animal's life span
Lost Wild America
Author | : Robert M. McClung |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0208023593 |
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Traces the history of wildlife conservation and environmental politics in America to 1992, and describes various extinct or endangered species.
Of a Feather
Author | : Scott Weidensaul |
Publsiher | : HMH |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2008-09-15 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780156035187 |
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Beyond Audubon: A quirky, “lively and illuminating” account of bird-watching’s history, including “rivalries, controversies, [and] bad behavior” (The Washington Post Book World). From the moment Europeans arrived in North America, they were awestruck by a continent awash with birds—great flocks of wild pigeons, prairies teeming with grouse, woodlands alive with brilliantly colored songbirds. Of a Feather traces the colorful origins of American birding: the frontier ornithologists who collected eggs between border skirmishes; the society matrons who organized the first effective conservation movement; and the luminaries with checkered pasts, such as Alexander Wilson (a convicted blackmailer) and the endlessly self-mythologizing John James Audubon. Naturalist Scott Weidensaul also recounts the explosive growth of modern birding that began when an awkward schoolteacher named Roger Tory Peterson published A Field Guide to the Birds in 1934. Today, birding counts iPod-wearing teens and obsessive “listers” among its tens of millions of participants, making what was once an eccentric hobby into something so completely mainstream it’s now (almost) cool. This compulsively readable popular history will surely find a roost on every birder’s shelf. “Weidensaul is a charming guide. . . . You don’t have to be a birder to enjoy this look at one of today’s fastest-growing (and increasingly competitive) hobbies.” —The Arizona Republic