Author : Louis S. Warren
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0300080867
The Hunter's Game by Louis S. Warren Pdf
The Hunter's Game reveals that early wildlife conservation was driven not by heroic idealism, but by the interests of recreational hunters and the tourist industry. As American wildlife populations declined at the end of the nineteenth century, elite, urban sportsmen began to lobby for game laws that would restrict the customary hunting practices of immigrants, Indians, and other local hunters.