Author: Brant MacDuff
Publisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 1643260146
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
At the intersection of hunting and conservation, a man shares his personal journey from staunch anti-hunter to compassionate, ethical hunter, weaving together a larger history of humans, animals, the environment, and our food systems. The Shotgun Conservationist doesn’t teach us how to hunt, it explores why we should hunt. As public lands remain imperiled, factory farms pollute the earth and subject animals to inhumane conditions, and global uncertainty presses us all to be more self-sufficient, there has never been a better time to take up hunting. Writer, natural historian, and public speaker Brant MacDuff has done just that. An avid animal lover and raised as a non-hunter, MacDuff started his journey intending to investigate the claim that “hunting is conservation.” So convinced, he now holds a hunting license in four states and gives lectures on the positive impact it has on conservation efforts nationwide. Armed with years of experience in the field and a deep love for the natural world, MacDuff tells the provocative, humorous, and insightful story of how he became a hunter. Along the way, readers meet a cast of colorful characters and learn the firsthand research that helped change Brant’s mind. You may not book a hunting trip after reading The Shotgun Conservationist, but you’ll have a new perspective on and appreciation for those that do.
The Shotgun Conservationist
Author: Brant MacDuff
Publisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 1643260146
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
At the intersection of hunting and conservation, a man shares his personal journey from staunch anti-hunter to compassionate, ethical hunter, weaving together a larger history of humans, animals, the environment, and our food systems. The Shotgun Conservationist doesn’t teach us how to hunt, it explores why we should hunt. As public lands remain imperiled, factory farms pollute the earth and subject animals to inhumane conditions, and global uncertainty presses us all to be more self-sufficient, there has never been a better time to take up hunting. Writer, natural historian, and public speaker Brant MacDuff has done just that. An avid animal lover and raised as a non-hunter, MacDuff started his journey intending to investigate the claim that “hunting is conservation.” So convinced, he now holds a hunting license in four states and gives lectures on the positive impact it has on conservation efforts nationwide. Armed with years of experience in the field and a deep love for the natural world, MacDuff tells the provocative, humorous, and insightful story of how he became a hunter. Along the way, readers meet a cast of colorful characters and learn the firsthand research that helped change Brant’s mind. You may not book a hunting trip after reading The Shotgun Conservationist, but you’ll have a new perspective on and appreciation for those that do.
Publisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 1643260146
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
At the intersection of hunting and conservation, a man shares his personal journey from staunch anti-hunter to compassionate, ethical hunter, weaving together a larger history of humans, animals, the environment, and our food systems. The Shotgun Conservationist doesn’t teach us how to hunt, it explores why we should hunt. As public lands remain imperiled, factory farms pollute the earth and subject animals to inhumane conditions, and global uncertainty presses us all to be more self-sufficient, there has never been a better time to take up hunting. Writer, natural historian, and public speaker Brant MacDuff has done just that. An avid animal lover and raised as a non-hunter, MacDuff started his journey intending to investigate the claim that “hunting is conservation.” So convinced, he now holds a hunting license in four states and gives lectures on the positive impact it has on conservation efforts nationwide. Armed with years of experience in the field and a deep love for the natural world, MacDuff tells the provocative, humorous, and insightful story of how he became a hunter. Along the way, readers meet a cast of colorful characters and learn the firsthand research that helped change Brant’s mind. You may not book a hunting trip after reading The Shotgun Conservationist, but you’ll have a new perspective on and appreciation for those that do.
Publication
Author: Emergency Conservation Committee, New York
Publisher:
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Category : Natural monuments
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Category : Natural monuments
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Maryland Conservationist
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Category : Fishing
Languages : en
Pages : 1106
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Category : Fishing
Languages : en
Pages : 1106
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Trails of Africa
Author: Daniel Nuss
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1685266363
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
After relocating into the heart of northern Tanzania for their careers, four close friends participate in never-ending, suspenseful, trapdoor assignments otherwise known in their line of work as wildlife conservation and archaeology. But it's not until one of the group's friends presented challenges like no other to their lives during the highly unimaginable, determined work they happened to love. How would each character react to their fellow coworkers if they locked horns with someone in their seemingly close-knit group who never stopped being impossible? It would seem that no matter what the group had done, they never seemed to get it right for that particular person. And the fact of the matter is, it's a recurring matter throughout nearly each day spent between one another while enjoying their work interest. What everybody in the group, save that special someone, must ask themselves is, How long should they put up with that special someone and deal with the difficulty? To make matters worse, one of the other characters refuses to hear the difficult character out, which leaves a stain on their relationships. Complications only arise as a criminal led the charge in parts of Tanzania to involve them in tracking him and his men in poaching and archaeology. And to top it all off, the difficult character had the canny ability to be a step forward through the door and to take the lead with any obstacle that heads their way. But by leaving each of the close acquaintances far more tightly knit together than they were before in the middle of prevalent danger, their struggles came as a surprise, realizing how they really didn't see each other the right way, all based on a story of suspenseful adventure that only raised the tenacity of keeping the group alarmed on their toes.
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1685266363
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
After relocating into the heart of northern Tanzania for their careers, four close friends participate in never-ending, suspenseful, trapdoor assignments otherwise known in their line of work as wildlife conservation and archaeology. But it's not until one of the group's friends presented challenges like no other to their lives during the highly unimaginable, determined work they happened to love. How would each character react to their fellow coworkers if they locked horns with someone in their seemingly close-knit group who never stopped being impossible? It would seem that no matter what the group had done, they never seemed to get it right for that particular person. And the fact of the matter is, it's a recurring matter throughout nearly each day spent between one another while enjoying their work interest. What everybody in the group, save that special someone, must ask themselves is, How long should they put up with that special someone and deal with the difficulty? To make matters worse, one of the other characters refuses to hear the difficult character out, which leaves a stain on their relationships. Complications only arise as a criminal led the charge in parts of Tanzania to involve them in tracking him and his men in poaching and archaeology. And to top it all off, the difficult character had the canny ability to be a step forward through the door and to take the lead with any obstacle that heads their way. But by leaving each of the close acquaintances far more tightly knit together than they were before in the middle of prevalent danger, their struggles came as a surprise, realizing how they really didn't see each other the right way, all based on a story of suspenseful adventure that only raised the tenacity of keeping the group alarmed on their toes.
Missouri Conservationist
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Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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Soil & Water Conservation News
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Category : Soil conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Category : Soil conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Louisiana Conservation News
Author:
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Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Louisiana Conservation Review
Author:
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Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
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Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
The Market in Birds
Author: Andrea L. Smalley
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421443406
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
"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"--
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421443406
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
"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"--
Conservation Refugees
Author: Mark Dowie
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 026226062X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
How native people—from the Miwoks of Yosemite to the Maasai of eastern Africa—have been displaced from their lands in the name of conservation. Since 1900, more than 108,000 officially protected conservation areas have been established worldwide, largely at the urging of five international conservation organizations. About half of these areas were occupied or regularly used by indigenous peoples. Millions who had been living sustainably on their land for generations were displaced in the interests of conservation. In Conservation Refugees, Mark Dowie tells this story. This is a “good guy vs. good guy” story, Dowie writes; the indigenous peoples' movement and conservation organizations have a vital common goal—to protect biological diversity—and could work effectively and powerfully together to protect the planet and preserve biological diversity. Yet for more than a hundred years, these two forces have been at odds. The result: thousands of unmanageable protected areas and native peoples reduced to poaching and trespassing on their ancestral lands or “assimilated” but permanently indentured on the lowest rungs of the money economy. Dowie begins with the story of Yosemite National Park, which by the turn of the twentieth century established a template for bitter encounters between native peoples and conservation. He then describes the experiences of other groups, ranging from the Ogiek and Maasai of eastern Africa and the Pygmies of Central Africa to the Karen of Thailand and the Adevasis of India. He also discusses such issues as differing definitions of “nature” and “wilderness,” the influence of the “BINGOs” (Big International NGOs, including the Worldwide Fund for Nature, Conservation International, and The Nature Conservancy), the need for Western scientists to respect and honor traditional lifeways, and the need for native peoples to blend their traditional knowledge with the knowledge of modern ecology. When conservationists and native peoples acknowledge the interdependence of biodiversity conservation and cultural survival, Dowie writes, they can together create a new and much more effective paradigm for conservation.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 026226062X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
How native people—from the Miwoks of Yosemite to the Maasai of eastern Africa—have been displaced from their lands in the name of conservation. Since 1900, more than 108,000 officially protected conservation areas have been established worldwide, largely at the urging of five international conservation organizations. About half of these areas were occupied or regularly used by indigenous peoples. Millions who had been living sustainably on their land for generations were displaced in the interests of conservation. In Conservation Refugees, Mark Dowie tells this story. This is a “good guy vs. good guy” story, Dowie writes; the indigenous peoples' movement and conservation organizations have a vital common goal—to protect biological diversity—and could work effectively and powerfully together to protect the planet and preserve biological diversity. Yet for more than a hundred years, these two forces have been at odds. The result: thousands of unmanageable protected areas and native peoples reduced to poaching and trespassing on their ancestral lands or “assimilated” but permanently indentured on the lowest rungs of the money economy. Dowie begins with the story of Yosemite National Park, which by the turn of the twentieth century established a template for bitter encounters between native peoples and conservation. He then describes the experiences of other groups, ranging from the Ogiek and Maasai of eastern Africa and the Pygmies of Central Africa to the Karen of Thailand and the Adevasis of India. He also discusses such issues as differing definitions of “nature” and “wilderness,” the influence of the “BINGOs” (Big International NGOs, including the Worldwide Fund for Nature, Conservation International, and The Nature Conservancy), the need for Western scientists to respect and honor traditional lifeways, and the need for native peoples to blend their traditional knowledge with the knowledge of modern ecology. When conservationists and native peoples acknowledge the interdependence of biodiversity conservation and cultural survival, Dowie writes, they can together create a new and much more effective paradigm for conservation.