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Saving America's Wildlife

Ecology and the American Mind, 1850-1990
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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2021

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Through an account of evolving ideas about wolves and coyotes, Thomas Dunlap shows how American attitudes toward animals have changed.

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"A major contribution to American intellectual and environmental history."---Roderick Frazier Nash, Western Historical Quarterly --- "Dunlap uses animals to tell a fable about human values.... The fabular quality of the book comes through in its slim size, its deft distillation of mountains of source material, its frequently epigrammatic language, and its singular focus on how science has revolutionized the intellectual and mythic landscape of American civilization."---Stephen J. Pyne, Pacific Northwest Quarterly --- "Beginning with nineteenth-century underpinnings to wildlife conservation, Thomas R. Dunlap's interesting book explores how we have deepened our commitment to and broadened the scope of animal conservation through the 1980s.... A well-written and effective statement."---Robin W. Doughty, The Journal of American History

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    Preface

    ix
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    Acknowledgments

    xv
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  • PART I Foundations for a Wildlife Policy
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    Introduction

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    One. Saving Animals for Use, 1880-1910

    5
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    Two. Science and the New American Nature Myth, 1880-1910

    18
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    Three. Ideas and Organizations: Structures for a Wildlife Policy

    34
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    Interlude. Values and Varmints, I

    47
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    Four. Worthless Wildlife

    48
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  • Part II. A Time of Transition
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    Five. Making a New Wildlife Policy, 1920—1940

    63
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    Six. From Knowing to Feeling: Changing Ideas about Nature, 1925—1950

    84
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    Seven. The Public and Ecology, 1945-1968

    98
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    Interlude. Values and Varmints, II

    111
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    Eight. Poisons and Policy: New Values for Varmints, 1939-1964

    112
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  • Part III. New Ideas, New Action
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    Nine. Ending the Poisoning, 1963-1972

    125
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    Ten. Saving Species

    142
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    Eleven. Finding Equilibrium, 1973—1985

    156
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    Epilogue

    173
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    Notes

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    Index

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eBook ISBN:
9780691224275
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https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691224275
eBook ISBN: 9780691224275
Keywords for this book
Ecology; United States Fish and Wildlife Service; Wildlife; Predation; Hunting; Ecosystem; Biologist; Endangered Species Act; Nature study; Scientist; Nature; Rodent; Trapping; Aldo Leopold; American Society of Mammalogists; Americans; Wildlife management; Adolph Murie; Wildlife conservation; Mammal; L. David Mech; World War II; Environmental movement; Balance of nature; Trophy hunting; National Park Service; National Wildlife Federation; Defenders of Wildlife; Wildlife biologist; Wildlife Services; Joseph Grinnell; Egret; Game (hunting); The Wildlife Society; Wildlife refuge; Pesticide; Darwinism; Coyote; Strychnine; Endangered species; Ornithology; North America; Black-footed ferret; Yellowstone National Park; Government agency; Canidae; Never Cry Wolf; Conservation biology; Scientific community; The Humane Society of the United States; Livestock; Legislation; Passenger pigeon; Ethology; Environmental politics; Peter Rabbit; Science; Virginia Tech; The Wilderness Society (United States); Leopold Report; Carnivore; Biology; CITES; Conservation movement; Environmentalist; Agriculture; Woodcraft; Cattle; United States Department of Agriculture; Criticism
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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
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