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Author : David Jones
Publisher : Whitecap Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1552857646
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,Valerius Geist
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781421432816
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 : Anonim
Publisher : Reader's Digest Association
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Birds
ISBN : 0762100362
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.
Author : Bruce David Leopold,Winifred B. Kessler,James L. Cummins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 194086027X
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 : Andrea L. Smalley
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421422350
"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 : Stanley Klein,Tom Aylesworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Zoology
ISBN : 0458965901
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Wildlife conservation
ISBN : UCSC:32106021091381
Author : Editors of Reader's Digest
Publisher : Trusted Media Brands
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1606524917
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.
Author : Peter Matthiessen
Publisher : Penguin Group USA
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Animals
ISBN : 014004793X
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 : Raul Valdez,Paul R. Krausman
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0816518394
Mountain sheep epitomize wilderness for many people because they occupy some of the most inaccessible and rugged habitats known to man, from desert crags to alpine mountains. But of all hoofed mammals in North America, wild sheep present the greatest management problems to biologists. This book is a major reference on the natural history, ecology, and management of wild sheep in North America. Written by wildlife biologists who have devoted years of study to the animals, it covers Dall's and Stone's sheep and Rocky Mountain, California, and desert bighorn and examines a variety of factors pertinent to their life histories: habitat, diet, activity, social organization, reproduction, and population dynamics. Additional chapters consider distribution and abundance, adaptive strategies, and management guidelines. Discussions on diseases of wild sheep present a wealth of information that will be of particular use to wildlife biologists, including detailed clinical descriptions of conditions that threaten sheep populations, from pasteurellosis to capture myopathy. An appendix reviews the cytogenetics and genetics of wild sheep. North American wild sheep may face extinction in many areas unless critical questions concerning their management are answered soon. Prior to the publication of this book, there was no single reference available in which one could find such a synthesis of information. Mountain Sheep of North America provides that source and points toward the preservation of these magnificent wild creatures. Contents 1. Description, Distribution, and Abundance of Mountain Sheep in North America, Raul Valdez and Paul R. Krausman 2. Natural History of Thinhorn Sheep, Lyman Nichols and Fred L. Bunnell 3. Natural History of Rocky Mountain and California Bighorn Sheep, David M. Shackleton, Christopher C. Shank, and Brian M. Wikeem 4. Natural History of Desert Bighorn Sheep, Paul R. Krausman, Andrew V. Sandoval, and Richard C. Etchberger 5. Adaptive Strategies in American Mountain Sheep: Effects of Climate, Latitude and Altitude, Ice Age Evolution, and Neonatal Security, Valerius Geist 6. Diseases of North American Wild Sheep, Thomas D. Bunch, Walter M. Boyce, Charles P. Hibler, William R. Lance, Terry R. Spraker, and Elizabeth S. Williams 7. Management of Bighorn Sheep, Charles L. Douglas and David M. Leslie Jr. Appendix: Cytogenetics and Genetics, Thomas D. Bunch, Robert S. Hoffmann, and Charles F. Nadler
Author : Hal Borland
Publisher : Crescent
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Science
ISBN : 0517658747
Author : Eldon Buckner,Jack Reneau
Publisher : Boone and Crockett Club
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0940864436
Records of North American Whitetail Deer is the definitive history book of trophy whitetail deer in North America. This greatly expanded fourth edition features: Over 7,500 listings of whitetail deer from the Boone and Crockett Club's Records Program dating back to the late 1800s up through December 31, 2002; that's nearly double the entries from the previous edition published just seven years ago. Over 35 new state and provincial records; geographic analysis of each state in the U.S., highlighting the top trophy-producing counties; individual state and provincial lists of typical and non-typical whitetail and Coues' deer; photos of all the state, provincial, and Mexican typical and non-typical whitetail deer records; numerous field photos of trophy quality whitetail deer; reproductions of typical and non-typical whitetail deer score charts with basic scoring instructions.
Author : Reader's Digest Association
Publisher : Pleasantville, N.Y. : Reader's Digest Association ; Montreal : Reader's Digest Association (Canada)
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Nature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004538521
With meticulous illustrations and detailed descriptions of plants and animals found in every corner of the continent, this newly updated and revised edition is the perfect companion in the field and a storehouse of information for the armchair naturalist or student. 2,000 full-color photos. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Thomas B. Allen, Gilbert M. Grosvenor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Henry Hill Collins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Animals
ISBN : STANFORD:36105031623965
A guide to all principal forms of wildlife that occur in the United States and Canada east of the Rockies and north of the Carolinas and Oklahoma.