North American Wildlife

Author : Susan J. Wernert
Publisher : Readers Digest
ISBN 13 : 9780762100200
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reader's Digest North American Wildlife written by Susan J. Wernert and published by Readers Digest. This book was released on 1982 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifies and describes many varieties of mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, trees, and wildflowers found in North America.

Author : David Jones
Publisher : Whitecap Books
ISBN 13 : 9781552857649
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book North American Wildlife written by David Jones and published by Whitecap Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Shane P. Mahoney
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421432811
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation written by Shane P. Mahoney and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Bruce David Leopold
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781940860275
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book North American Wildlife Policy and Law written by Bruce David Leopold and published by . This book was released on 2017-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Peter Matthiessen
Publisher : Penguin Group USA
ISBN 13 : 9780140047936
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wildlife in America written by Peter Matthiessen and published by Penguin Group USA. This book was released on 1977 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Stanley Klein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780458965908
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of North American Wildlife written by Stanley Klein and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrea L. Smalley
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421422352
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild by Nature written by Andrea L. Smalley and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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"--

Author : Editors of Reader's Digest
Publisher : Trusted Media Brands
ISBN 13 : 9781606524916
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book North American Wildlife written by Editors of Reader's Digest and published by Trusted Media Brands. This book was released on 2012-05-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North American Wildlife is a valuable reference guide to the most common and conspicuous wild plants and animals in North America. Birds and butterflies, ferns and frogs, mushrooms and mantra rays, seashells and salamanders---this 576 page book includes more than 2,000 plants and animals of all types. Spanning the land from Florida to the Northwest Territories, it embraces field forest, pond, and prairie—all the natural communities that make our North American flora and fauna so splendidly diverse. North American Wildlife is both a valuable at-home reference and an extraordinarily usable guide to the most common and conspicuous wild plants and animals of our continent. Specially planned for quick and easy identification, it far surpasses other guides in so many ways.

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Publisher : Parragon Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781405463102
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wildlife of North America written by and published by Parragon Publishing. This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hal Borland
Publisher : Crescent
ISBN 13 : 9780517658741
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Wildlife in America written by Hal Borland and published by Crescent. This book was released on 1988 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: