Author: Valerius Geist
Publisher: NorthWord Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9781559712088
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
-- Takes a complete look at life cycle and behavior. -- Examines the past and prospects for the future.
Elk Country
Author: Valerius Geist
Publisher: NorthWord Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9781559712088
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
-- Takes a complete look at life cycle and behavior. -- Examines the past and prospects for the future.
Publisher: NorthWord Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9781559712088
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
-- Takes a complete look at life cycle and behavior. -- Examines the past and prospects for the future.
Big Game of North America
Author: John L. Schmidt
Publisher: Harrisburg, Pa. : Stackpole Books
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Contributions by authors about each of the big game mammals including exotics. Includes chapters on early management, big game values, nutrition, population behaviour, predators, and other aspects of management.
Publisher: Harrisburg, Pa. : Stackpole Books
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Contributions by authors about each of the big game mammals including exotics. Includes chapters on early management, big game values, nutrition, population behaviour, predators, and other aspects of management.
Elk
Author: Erwin A. Bauer
Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)
ISBN:
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
A majestic symbol of the great outdoors, elk are widely admired nationwide. They inhabit some of the most rugged and beautiful areas of North America, lending spectacular backdrops to the award-winning photography that illustrates this volume. Like no other book before, Elk offers a complete introduction to the world of the North American elk. From habits to habitats, Erwin Bauer provides extensive coverage including the elk's ancestors and evolution, range, diet, behavior and instincts, physical characteristics, predators, and conservation issues. The Bauers capture elk in every season and in many environments from Yellowstone National Park to the Canadian wilderness. They chronicle the creation of such organizations as the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and the National Elk Refuge, and present readers with more than 100 gorgeous color photos, historical black-and-white images, and a range map. Elk is the source for complete details on this regal wild creature.
Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)
ISBN:
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
A majestic symbol of the great outdoors, elk are widely admired nationwide. They inhabit some of the most rugged and beautiful areas of North America, lending spectacular backdrops to the award-winning photography that illustrates this volume. Like no other book before, Elk offers a complete introduction to the world of the North American elk. From habits to habitats, Erwin Bauer provides extensive coverage including the elk's ancestors and evolution, range, diet, behavior and instincts, physical characteristics, predators, and conservation issues. The Bauers capture elk in every season and in many environments from Yellowstone National Park to the Canadian wilderness. They chronicle the creation of such organizations as the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and the National Elk Refuge, and present readers with more than 100 gorgeous color photos, historical black-and-white images, and a range map. Elk is the source for complete details on this regal wild creature.
Seasons of the Elk
Author: Michael Furtman
Publisher: Creative Publishing International
ISBN: 9781559715867
Category : Elk
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
-- Follows behavior of the elk. -- A close look at this majestic animal.
Publisher: Creative Publishing International
ISBN: 9781559715867
Category : Elk
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
-- Follows behavior of the elk. -- A close look at this majestic animal.
The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation
Author: Shane P. Mahoney
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421432811
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
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
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421432811
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
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
Where Elk Roam
Author: Bruce Smith
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 076277553X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
An inside look at working with the majestic elk—and the controversies surrounding their conservation.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 076277553X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
An inside look at working with the majestic elk—and the controversies surrounding their conservation.
Waterfowl of North America
Author: Paul A. Johnsgard
Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
"Compendium of data...for all of the nearly sixty species of ducks, geese, and swans known to breed in North America. For each species the distribution (with range maps for all breeding species), weights and measurements, information on identification in the hand and in the field, criteria for determining age and sex, and North American subspecies are given. Each species description also includes detailed accounts of preferred habitat, food, ecology, migratory movements, sociality, age at maturity, nest location, clutch size, incubation and fledging periods, pairing and flocking behavior, and copulatory, nesting, brooding, and postbreeding behavior." --Dust jacket.
Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
"Compendium of data...for all of the nearly sixty species of ducks, geese, and swans known to breed in North America. For each species the distribution (with range maps for all breeding species), weights and measurements, information on identification in the hand and in the field, criteria for determining age and sex, and North American subspecies are given. Each species description also includes detailed accounts of preferred habitat, food, ecology, migratory movements, sociality, age at maturity, nest location, clutch size, incubation and fledging periods, pairing and flocking behavior, and copulatory, nesting, brooding, and postbreeding behavior." --Dust jacket.
Indigenous Peoples of North America
Author: Robert James Muckle
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442603569
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
In this thoughtful book, Robert J. Muckle provides a brief, thematic overview of the key issues facing Indigenous peoples in North America from prehistory to the present.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442603569
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
In this thoughtful book, Robert J. Muckle provides a brief, thematic overview of the key issues facing Indigenous peoples in North America from prehistory to the present.
Big Game of North America
Author: Erwin A. Bauer
Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)
ISBN:
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
This book is a survey of the big game animals of the USA, Canada, and Mexico. Each animal is covered in a small chapter discussing the animal's characteristics, behaviour, and conservation, all in a personal, anecdotal style. Includes a range map of each species. Animals covered: Horned animals: bighorn sheep, dall sheep including stone and fannin sheep, pronghorn antelope, mountain goats, bison, and muskoxen. Antlered animals: white-tailed deer, mule deer and black-tailed deer, elk, moose, and caribou. Large Cats: mountain lions and jaguar. Bears: black bears, grizzly bears including brown Kodiak bears, and polar bears.
Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)
ISBN:
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
This book is a survey of the big game animals of the USA, Canada, and Mexico. Each animal is covered in a small chapter discussing the animal's characteristics, behaviour, and conservation, all in a personal, anecdotal style. Includes a range map of each species. Animals covered: Horned animals: bighorn sheep, dall sheep including stone and fannin sheep, pronghorn antelope, mountain goats, bison, and muskoxen. Antlered animals: white-tailed deer, mule deer and black-tailed deer, elk, moose, and caribou. Large Cats: mountain lions and jaguar. Bears: black bears, grizzly bears including brown Kodiak bears, and polar bears.
The Elk of North America
Author: Olaus J. Murie
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811766748
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
This is an outstanding treatise on one of America’s most widely hunted and most important big-game animals. Although thousands of sportsmen take to the field each year in quest of trophies, the perpetuation of elk hunting in America depends entirely upon proper management of the herds. Whether management succeeds or fails in future years will depend upon how well the public understands the problems of the game administrators and of the animals themselves. Everything the sportsman or naturalist would wish to know about the elk in included in this new volume. Habits, food preferences, seasonal movements, anatomy, antler development, and management problems are interestingly and thoroughly discussed. Written by one of America’s greatest field naturalists, this new book has behind it a lifetime spent in intimate study of the subject. Dr. Murie is recognized as the world’s foremost authority on the American elk and his comprehensive research on elk in the Jackson Hole National Monument forms the basis for this book. Everyone interested in America’s wildlife will want this volume in his library. The book is copiously illustrated with half-tone and original line drawings by the author.
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811766748
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
This is an outstanding treatise on one of America’s most widely hunted and most important big-game animals. Although thousands of sportsmen take to the field each year in quest of trophies, the perpetuation of elk hunting in America depends entirely upon proper management of the herds. Whether management succeeds or fails in future years will depend upon how well the public understands the problems of the game administrators and of the animals themselves. Everything the sportsman or naturalist would wish to know about the elk in included in this new volume. Habits, food preferences, seasonal movements, anatomy, antler development, and management problems are interestingly and thoroughly discussed. Written by one of America’s greatest field naturalists, this new book has behind it a lifetime spent in intimate study of the subject. Dr. Murie is recognized as the world’s foremost authority on the American elk and his comprehensive research on elk in the Jackson Hole National Monument forms the basis for this book. Everyone interested in America’s wildlife will want this volume in his library. The book is copiously illustrated with half-tone and original line drawings by the author.