The Market Hunting Of Texas Birds
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Texas Market Hunting
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Author : R. K. Sawyer
language : en
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Release Date : 2013-10-01
Texas Market Hunting written by R. K. Sawyer and has been published by Texas A&M University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-01 with History categories.
From its earliest days of human habitation, the Texas coast was home to seemingly endless clouds of ducks, geese, swans, and shorebirds. By the 1880s Texas huntsmen, or market hunters, as they came to be called, began providing meat and plumage for the restaurant tables and millinery salons of a rapidly growing nation. A network of suppliers, packers, distribution centers, and shipping hubs efficiently handled their immense harvest. At the peak of Texas market hunting in the late 1890s, Rockport merchants shipped an average of 600 ducks a day in a five-month shooting season, and in the last year of legal market hunting, an estimated 60,000 ducks and geese were shipped from Corpus Christi alone. Market men employed efficient methods to harvest nature’s bounty. They commonly hunted at night, often using bait to concentrate large numbers of waterfowl. The effectiveness of the hunt was improved when side-by-side double barrel shotguns and large-gauge swivel guns gave way to repeating firearms, with some capable of discharging as many as eleven shells in a single volley. Their methods were so efficient that, by the late 1800s, Texas sportsmen and others blamed the alarming decline of coastal waterfowl populations on the market hunter’s occupation. In 1903, after a long fight and many failures, the first migratory bird game law passed the Texas legislature. Though the fight would continue, it was the beginning of the end of the year-round slaughter. Most market hunters quit, and those who didn’t became outlaws. In this book, R. K. Sawyer chronicles the days of market hunting along the Texas coast and the showdown between the early game wardens and those who persisted in commercial waterfowl hunting. Containing an abundance of rare historical photographs and oral history, Texas Market Hunting: Stories of Waterfowl, Game Laws, and Outlaws provides a comprehensive and colorful account of this bygone period.
The Market In Birds
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Author : Andrea L. Smalley
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2022-04-05
The Market In Birds 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 2022-04-05 with History categories.
"The book examines wildfowl market hunting in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America and its formative effects on both early conservation policy and cultural valuations of wildlife in modernizing America"--
The Market In Birds
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Author : Andrea L. Smalley
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2022-04-05
The Market In Birds 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 2022-04-05 with History categories.
A fascinating look at how a commercial market for birds in the late nineteenth century set the stage for conservation and its legislation. Between the end of the Civil War and the 1920s, the United States witnessed the creation, rapid expansion, and then disappearance of a commercial market for hunted wild animals. The bulk of commercial wildlife sales in the last part of the nineteenth century were of wildfowl, who were prized not only for their eggs and meat but also for their beautiful feathers. Wild birds were brought to cities in those years to be sold as food for customers' tables, decorations for ladies' hats, treasured pets, and specimens for collectors' cabinets. Though relatively short-lived, this market in birds was broadly influential, its rise and fall coinciding with the birth of the Progressive Era conservation movement. In The Market in Birds, historian Andrea L. Smalley and wildlife biologist Henry M. Reeves illuminate this crucial chapter in American environmental history. Touching on ecology, economics, law, and culture, the authors reveal how commercial hunting set the terms for wildlife conservation and the first federal wildlife legislation at the turn of the twentieth century. Smalley and Reeves delve into the ground-level interactions among market hunters, game dealers, consumers, sportsmen, conservationists, and the wild birds they all wanted. Ultimately, they argue, wildfowl commercialization represented a revolutionary shift in wildlife use, turning what had been a mostly limited, local, and seasonal trade into an interstate industrial-capitalist enterprise. In the process, it provoked a critical public debate over the value of wildlife in a modern consumer culture. By the turn of the twentieth century, the authors reveal, it was clear that wild bird populations were declining precipitously all over North America. The looming possibility of a future without birds sparked intense debate nationwide and eventually culminated in the 1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Scholars, environmentalists, wildlife professionals, and anyone concerned about wildlife will find this new perspective on conservation history enlightening reading.
Texas Waterfowl Identification Guide
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Author : Central Flyway Council
language : en
Publisher: anboco
Release Date : 2017-06-19
Texas Waterfowl Identification Guide written by Central Flyway Council and has been published by anboco this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-19 with Nature categories.
The North American continent, at the time of its discovery and early settlement, had a waterfowl population which was one of its many wonders. So far as the evidence shows, no equal area of the earth's surface ever supported such vast numbers of so many different ducks and geese, and this situation persisted to a time within the memory of living men. Long after the end of early settlement on this continent, hunting was free and harvest unlimited. But as the advancing tide of settlement reached into the north-central prairie states and provinces in the final years of the Nineteenth Century, radical changes began. From that time on North American waterfowl habitat began to deteriorate. Literally millions of acres of former nesting ground in the north have now been drained and put to the plow. South of the breeding range, not only agriculture, but industrialization and urbanization also have steadily reduced available resting and wintering grounds. The progressive decline in waterfowl numbers which followed these changes in land use led eventually to the scientific management of waterfowl. Spring shooting and market hunting were abolished in the second decade of this century. Ten years later the federal government undertook detailed regulation of migratory waterfowl so the annual harvest could be made proportional to the annual production. This was accomplished through collective effort by State, Provincial and Federal agencies of Canada, Mexico and the United States to obtain scientific information. In keeping with biological principles, most of the restrictions on bag limit and means of taking have been used with some flexibility. Throughout the decline of all waterfowl populations some species have been underharvested. These species have declined in about the same proportion as those species on which the bulk of the harvest occurred.
Farmers Bulletin
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Author : United States. Department of Agriculture
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1924
Farmers Bulletin written by United States. Department of Agriculture and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1924 with Agriculture categories.
Game Laws For 1909
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Author : Theodore Sherman Palmer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1910
Game Laws For 1909 written by Theodore Sherman Palmer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1910 with Game laws categories.
Game Laws For
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Author : Charles Dwight Marsh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1910
Game Laws For written by Charles Dwight Marsh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1910 with Acetanilide categories.
Muskrats are of much economic value, and should be protected by proper laws. Legal enactments should forbid their destruction during reproducing season and whenever their furs are not prime. Spearing and shooting should be prohibited. Muskrat houses should be protected at all times. The trapping season should be nearly uniform for the different states. Protective laws should contain provisions allowing corporations and individuals whose property is being damaged by muskrats to destroy the animals in the closed season under th supervision of game wardens or other officers, but not for profit. If properly protected the muskrat will continue to inhabit our rivers and ponds for an indefinite period, and to furnish a stock of furs for our own future generations."--Page 37-38.
The Protection Of Orchards In The Pacific Northwest From Spring Frosts By Means Of Fires And Smudges
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Author : Patrick Joseph O'Gara
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1911
The Protection Of Orchards In The Pacific Northwest From Spring Frosts By Means Of Fires And Smudges written by Patrick Joseph O'Gara and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1911 with Fruit categories.
Cotton Improvement Under Weevil Conditions
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Author : Orator Fuller Cook
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1913
Cotton Improvement Under Weevil Conditions written by Orator Fuller Cook and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1913 with Agriculture categories.
Red Clover
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Author : Arthur B. Conner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1912
Red Clover written by Arthur B. Conner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1912 with Agriculture categories.