People And Wildlife In Northern North America
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People And Wildlife In Northern North America
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Author : Scott Craig Gerlach
language : en
Publisher: BAR International Series
Release Date : 2001
People And Wildlife In Northern North America written by Scott Craig Gerlach and has been published by BAR International Series this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
23 papers, mostly from the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association marking the retirement of R D Guthrie in 1996 and reflecting his interests in archaeology, anthropology, palaeontology, palaeoecology and taphonomy.
The North American Model Of Wildlife Conservation
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Author : Shane P. Mahoney
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2019-09-10
The North American Model Of Wildlife Conservation written by Shane P. Mahoney and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-10 with Science categories.
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
Wild By Nature
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Author : Andrea L. Smalley
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2017-06-29
Wild By Nature written by Andrea L. Smalley and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-29 with History categories.
How did efforts to control wild animals affect colonization? Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRL From the time Europeans first came to the New World until the closing of the frontier, the benefits of abundant wild animals—from beavers and wolves to fish, deer, and bison—appeared as a recurring theme in colonizing discourses. Explorers, travelers, surveyors, naturalists, and other promoters routinely advertised the richness of the American faunal environment and speculated about the ways in which animals could be made to serve their colonial projects. In practice, however, American animals proved far less malleable to colonizers’ designs. Their behaviors constrained an English colonial vision of a reinvented and rationalized American landscape. In Wild by Nature, Andrea L. Smalley argues that Anglo-American authorities’ unceasing efforts to convert indigenous beasts into colonized creatures frequently produced unsettling results that threatened colonizers’ control over the land and the people. Not simply acted upon by being commodified, harvested, and exterminated, wild animals were active subjects in the colonial story, altering its outcome in unanticipated ways. These creatures became legal actors—subjects of statutes, issues in court cases, and parties to treaties—in a centuries-long colonizing process that was reenacted on successive wild animal frontiers. Following a trail of human–animal encounters from the seventeenth-century Chesapeake to the Civil War–era southern plains, Smalley shows how wild beasts and their human pursuers repeatedly transgressed the lines lawmakers drew to demarcate colonial sovereignty and control, confounding attempts to enclose both people and animals inside a legal frame. She also explores how, to possess the land, colonizers had to find new ways to contain animals without destroying the wildness that made those creatures valuable to English settler societies in the first place. Offering fresh perspectives on colonial, legal, environmental, and Native American history, Wild by Nature reenvisions the familiar stories of early America as animal tales.
The Archaeology Of North Pacific Fisheries
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Author : Madonna L. Moss
language : en
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Release Date : 2011-11-15
The Archaeology Of North Pacific Fisheries written by Madonna L. Moss and has been published by University of Alaska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-15 with Social Science categories.
For thousands of years, fisheries were crucial to the sustenance of the First Peoples of the Pacific Coast. Yet human impact has left us with a woefully incomplete understanding of their histories prior to the industrial era. Covering Alaska, British Columbia, and Puget Sound, The Archaeology of North Pacific Fisheries illustrates how the archaeological record reveals new information about ancient ways of life and the histories of key species. Individual chapters cover salmon, as well as a number of lesser-known species abundant in archaeological sites, including pacific cod, herring, rockfish, eulachon, and hake. In turn, this ecological history informs suggestions for sustainable fishing in today’s rapidly changing environment.
Recent Mammals Of Alaska
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Author : Joseph A. Cook
language : en
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Release Date : 2010-03-15
Recent Mammals Of Alaska written by Joseph A. Cook and has been published by University of Alaska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-15 with Science categories.
From the polar bear and the gray wolf to the walrus and river otter, there are 115 species of mammals in Alaska that have never been fully catalogued until now. Biologists Joseph A. Cook and Stephen O. MacDonald have compiled here the first comprehensive guide to all of Alaska’s mammals, big and small, endearing and ferocious. Through extensive fieldwork and research the authors have produced a unique and authoritative reference. Detailed entries for each species include distribution and taxonomic information, status, habitat, and fossil history. Appendices include quick reference listings of mammal distribution by region, specimen locations, conservation status, and the incidence of Pleistocene mammals. The guide is generously illustrated with line drawings by Alaskan artist W. D. Berry and includes several maps indicating populations and locations of species. Mammals of Alaska will be an accessible, easy to use source for scholars and hobbyists alike.
Vanishing Wildlife Of North America
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Author : Thomas B. Allen, Gilbert M. Grosvenor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
Vanishing Wildlife Of North America written by Thomas B. Allen, Gilbert M. Grosvenor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with categories.
Peterson Field Guide To Finding Mammals In North America
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Author : Vladimir Dinets
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2015
Peterson Field Guide To Finding Mammals In North America written by Vladimir Dinets and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Nature categories.
A guide to finding and observing 420 species of North American mammals, including the art of mammal watching, the best locations, and a species-finding guide.
The Oxford Handbook Of Zooarchaeology
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Author : Umberto Albarella
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017
The Oxford Handbook Of Zooarchaeology written by Umberto Albarella and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Social Science categories.
'The Oxford Handbook of Zooarchaeology' offers a cutting-edge compendium of zooarchaeology the world over that seeks to provide a holistic view of the role played by animals in shaping human history, with case studies from five continents examining human-animal relationships across a range of geographical, historical, and cultural contexts.
The Quaternary Period In The United States
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Author : A.R. Gillespie
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier
Release Date : 2003-12-17
The Quaternary Period In The United States written by A.R. Gillespie and has been published by Elsevier this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-12-17 with Science categories.
This book reviews advances in understanding of the past ca. two million years of Earth history - the Quaternary Period - in the United States. It begins with sections on ice and water - as glaciers, permafrost, oceans, rivers, lakes, and aquifers. Six chapters are devoted to the high-latitude Pleistocene ice sheets, to mountain glaciations of the western United States, and to permafrost studies. Other chapters discuss ice-age lakes, caves, sea-level fluctuations, and riverine landscapes. With a chapter on landscape evolution models, the book turns to essays on geologic processes. Two chapters discuss soils and their responses to climate, and wind-blown sediments. Two more describe volcanoes and earthquakes, and the use of Quaternary geology to understand the hazards they pose. The next part of the book is on plants and animals. Five chapters consider the Quaternary history of vegetation in the United States. Other chapters treat forcing functions and vegetation response at different spatial and temporal scales, the role of fire as a catalyst of vegetation change during rapid climate shifts, and the use of tree rings in inferring age and past hydroclimatic conditions. Three chapters address vertebrate paleontology and the extinctions of large mammals at the end of the last glaciation, beetle assemblages and the inferences they permit about past conditions, and the peopling of North America. A final chapter addresses the numerical modeling of Quaternary climates, and the role paleoclimatic studies and climatic modeling has in predicting future response of the Earth's climate system to the changes we have wrought.
American Bison Status Survey And Conservation Guidelines 2010
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: IUCN
Release Date : 2010
American Bison Status Survey And Conservation Guidelines 2010 written by and has been published by IUCN this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with American bison categories.