Waterfowling On The Chesapeake 1819 1936

Author : C. John Sullivan
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0801871557

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Waterfowling on the Chesapeake, 1819-1936 by C. John Sullivan Pdf

Part documentary, part nostalgic history, and part informational catalogue, Waterfowling on the Chesapeake, 1819–1936 explores a century of hunting on the Chesapeake Bay and its major tributaries—from the heyday of gun clubs and market shooting to the rise of conservation law. Drawing on oral histories and period documents and artifacts, C. John Sullivan, a longtime collector of decoys and hunting paraphernalia and a frequent guest curator of exhibits, looks at the effects of technological change, the relationship between hunter and dog, the recognition of decoys as folk art, and the history of hunting. He also introduces us to famous and lesser-known carvers and others who share an enthusiasm for this feature of Chesapeake cultural history and life.

Author : Victor S. Kennedy
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781421426556

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Shifting Baselines in the Chesapeake Bay by Victor S. Kennedy Pdf

This environmental history of America’s largest estuary provides insight into how and why its former productivity and abundant fisheries have declined. The concept of “shifting baselines”—changes in historical reference points used in environmental assessments—illuminates a foundational challenge when evaluating the health of ecosystems and seeking to restore degraded wildlife populations. In this important book, Victor S. Kennedy examines the problem of shifting baselines for one of the most productive aquatic resources in the world: the Chesapeake Bay. Kennedy explains that since the 1800s, when the Bay area was celebrated for its aquatic bounty, harvest baselines have shifted downward precipitously. Over the centuries, fishers and hunters, supported by an extensive infrastructure of boats, gear, and processing facilities, overexploited the region’s fish, crustaceans, terrapin, and waterfowl, squandering a profound resource. Beginning with the colonial period and continuing through the twentieth century, Kennedy gathers an unparalleled collection of scientific resources and eyewitness reports by colonists, fishers, managers, scientists, and newspaper reporters to create a comprehensive examination of the Chesapeake’s environmental history. Focusing on the relative productivity and health of its fisheries and wildlife and highlighting key species such as shad, oysters, and blue crab, Shifting Baselines in the Chesapeake Bay helps readers understand the remarkable extent of the Bay’s natural resources in the past so that we can begin to understand what has changed since, and why. Such knowledge can help illustrate the Bay’s potential fertility and stimulate efforts to restore this pivotal maritime system’s ecological health and productivity.

Author : C. John Sullivan Jr.
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-14
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781625843876

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Chesapeake Bay Retrievers, Decoys & Long Guns by C. John Sullivan Jr. Pdf

Carroll's Island is one of many places along the Chesapeake Bay where vibrant stories of dogs, decoys, guns and waterfowl resonate up from the shoreline. The stories from Carroll's Island Ducking Club, which was founded in the mid-nineteenth century, offer special insights about the Chesapeake Bay's waterfowling heritage. In this warm, informative book, C. John Sullivan Jr., one of the nation's

Author : Benjamin E. Cuker
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9783030454814

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Diet for a Sustainable Ecosystem by Benjamin E. Cuker Pdf

This book explores a specific ecosystem in depth, in order to weave a story built on place and history. It incorporates the theme of a journey to help reveal the environment-human-health-food system-problem. While drawing on a historical approach stretching back to the American colonial era, it also incorporates more contemporary scientific findings. By crafting its story around a specific place, the book makes it easier for readers to relate to the content, and to subsequently use what they learn to better understand the role of food systems at the global scale.

Author : Daniel Vivian
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781108416900

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A New Plantation World by Daniel Vivian Pdf

Examines the creation of 'sporting plantations' in the South Carolina lowcountry during the first four decades of the twentieth century.

Author : Christine Keiner
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820337180

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The Oyster Question by Christine Keiner Pdf

In The Oyster Question, Christine Keiner applies perspectives of environmental, agricultural, political, and social history to examine the decline of Maryland’s iconic Chesapeake Bay oyster industry. Oystermen have held on to traditional ways of life, and some continue to use preindustrial methods, tonging oysters by hand from small boats. Others use more intensive tools, and thus it is commonly believed that a lack of regulation enabled oystermen to exploit the bay to the point of ruin. But Keiner offers an opposing view in which state officials, scientists, and oystermen created a regulated commons that sustained tidewater communities for decades. Not until the 1980s did a confluence of natural and unnatural disasters weaken the bay’s resilience enough to endanger the oyster resource. Keiner examines conflicts that pitted scientists in favor of privatization against watermen who used their power in the statehouse to stave off the forces of rural change. Her study breaks new ground regarding the evolution of environmental politics at the state rather than the federal level. The Oyster Question concludes with the impassioned ongoing debate over introducing nonnative oysters to the Chesapeake Bay and how that proposal might affect the struggling watermen and their identity as the last hunter-gatherers of the industrialized world.

Author : Kristin G. Congdon,Kara Kelley Hallmark
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 789 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780313349379

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American Folk Art [2 volumes] by Kristin G. Congdon,Kara Kelley Hallmark Pdf

Folk art is as varied as it is indicative of person and place, informed by innovation and grounded in cultural context. The variety and versatility of 300 American folk artists is captured in this collection of informative and thoroughly engaging essays. American Folk Art: A Regional Reference offers a collection of fascinating essays on the life and work of 300 individual artists. Some of the men and women profiled in these two volumes are well known, while others are important practitioners who have yet to receive the notice they merit. Because many of the artists in both categories have a clear identity with their land and culture, the work is organized by geographical region and includes an essay on each region to help make connections visible. There is also an introductory essay on U.S. folk art as a whole. Those writing about folk art to date tend to view each artist as either traditional or innovative. One of the major contributions of this work is that it demonstrates that folk artists more often exhibit both traits; they are grounded in their cultural context and creative in the way they make work their own. Such insights expand the study of folk art even as they readjust readers' understanding of who folk artists are.

Author : C. John Sullivan Jr
Publisher : History Press Library Editions
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1540218694

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Chesapeake Bay Retrievers, Decoys & Long Guns: Tales of Carroll's Island Ducking Club by C. John Sullivan Jr Pdf

Carroll s Island is one of many places along the Chesapeake Bay where vibrant stories of dogs, decoys, guns and waterfowl resonate up from the shoreline. The stories from Carroll s Island Ducking Club, which was founded in the mid-nineteenth century, offer special insights about the Chesapeake Bay s waterfowling heritage. In this warm, informative book, C. John Sullivan Jr., one of the nation s leading decoy collectors and scholars, documents the development of the Chesapeake Bay retriever and how gunners once devised decoys and new firearms and enjoyed the bounty of the Chesapeake Bay. Eventually Carroll s Island Ducking Club would disappear, but its legacy can still be seen today in the role members played in establishing the Chesapeake Bay retriever as Maryland s state dog."

Author : Erve Chambers
Publisher : Maryland Sea Grant College University of Maryland
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : PSU:000060839381

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Heritage Matters by Erve Chambers Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Natural history
ISBN : UCD:31175029277954

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Natural History by Anonim Pdf

Author : North American Society for Sport History
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Physical education and training
ISBN : UOM:39015073094347

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Proceedings by North American Society for Sport History Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Game and game-birds
ISBN : MINN:31951P00852971W

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Virginia Wildlife by Anonim Pdf

Author : J. Edward Wright
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1570034796

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Baruch Ben Neriah by J. Edward Wright Pdf

This work traces the evolution of a biblical figure whose legacy grew from that of a scribe who edited or wrote the Book of Jeremiah to a divine sage granted a tour of heaven itself. It charts the significance of a minor figure who gradually became a larger-than-life hero in the Jewish and Christian popular imagination. In addition to exploring biblical and postbiblical depictions, it also shows how the various portrayals reveal the leadership models and religious values of early Jewish and Christian communities. It suggests that these communities reinvented Baruch to meet the pressing issues of their day. The text examines the scribe as depicted in the Bible, noting his distinction as one of the few characters whose existence can be attested by archaeological evidence. A loyal friend of Jeremiah, Baruch is recorded to have received a mysterious oracle from God in the midst of Jerusalem's destruction by the Babylonians. The volume explores how beliefs about this message provided the postbiblical impetus for Baruch's transformation into an apocalyptic seer.

Author : Gary A. Wobeser
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461559511

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Diseases of Wild Waterfowl by Gary A. Wobeser Pdf

Management of wild waterfowl has become increasingly intensive. Many birds now hatch in managed nesting cover or in artificial nesting structures, use man-made wetlands, and winter on crowded refuges while consuming a grain diet The water they use is often limited in supply and may contain residues from its many prior users. Unfortunately, intensified management often results in new problems, among which disease is important There are many similarities between the current form of management used for some waterfowl and that used in domestic animals. In both, the objective is to maintain a healthy, productive population. Dealing with health problems in waterfowl will benefit from combining the skills of veterinary medicine and wildlife ecology. Revisiting this book after 15 years allowed me to consider changes at the interface between the two disciplines. Veterinary medicine traditionally has been concerned with the individual and with treating sick animals, while the ecologist is concerned with populations and the manager has limited interest in treating sick birds. During this period there has been a marked increase in awareness among veterinarians that they have a responsibility in wildlife and conservation biology. Curricula of many veterinary colleges now include material on non-domestic animals and attempt to put disease in an ecological context. Also during this time, waterfowl managers have become more aware of disease as a factor in population biology and there are early attempts to put numbers to "disease" in models of continental waterfowl populations.

Author : Virginia DeJohn Anderson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0195304462

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Creatures of Empire by Virginia DeJohn Anderson Pdf

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