Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Conservation of Wild Life Resources
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Category : Wildlife conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Wildlife Restoration and Conservation Proceedings of the North American Wildlife Conference Called by President Franklin D. Roosevelt ... February 3-7, 1936
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Conservation of Wild Life Resources
Publisher:
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Category : Wildlife conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Wildlife conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
George Meléndez Wright
Author: Jerry Emory
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226824950
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
The first biography of a visionary biologist whose groundbreaking ideas regarding wildlife and science revolutionized national parks. When twenty-three-year-old George Meléndez Wright arrived in Yosemite National Park in 1927 to work as a ranger naturalist—the first Hispanic person to occupy any professional position in the National Park Service (NPS)—he had already visited every national park in the western United States, including McKinley (now Denali) in Alaska. Two years later, he would organize the first science-based wildlife survey of the western parks, forever changing how the NPS would manage wildlife and natural resources. At a time when national parks routinely fed bears garbage as part of “shows” and killed “bad” predators like wolves, mountain lions, and coyotes, Wright’s new ideas for conservation set the stage for the modern scientific management of parks and other public lands. Tragically, Wright died in a 1936 car accident while working to establish parks and wildlife refuges on the US-Mexico border. To this day, he remains a celebrated figure among conservationists, wildlife experts, and park managers. In this book, Jerry Emory, a conservationist and writer connected to Wright’s family, draws on hundreds of letters, field notes, archival research, interviews, and more to offer both a biography of Wright and a historical account of a crucial period in the evolution of US parks and the wilderness movement. With a foreword by former NPS director Jonathan B. Jarvis, George Meléndez Wright is a celebration of Wright’s unique upbringing, dynamism, and enduring vision that places him at last in the pantheon of the great American conservationists.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226824950
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
The first biography of a visionary biologist whose groundbreaking ideas regarding wildlife and science revolutionized national parks. When twenty-three-year-old George Meléndez Wright arrived in Yosemite National Park in 1927 to work as a ranger naturalist—the first Hispanic person to occupy any professional position in the National Park Service (NPS)—he had already visited every national park in the western United States, including McKinley (now Denali) in Alaska. Two years later, he would organize the first science-based wildlife survey of the western parks, forever changing how the NPS would manage wildlife and natural resources. At a time when national parks routinely fed bears garbage as part of “shows” and killed “bad” predators like wolves, mountain lions, and coyotes, Wright’s new ideas for conservation set the stage for the modern scientific management of parks and other public lands. Tragically, Wright died in a 1936 car accident while working to establish parks and wildlife refuges on the US-Mexico border. To this day, he remains a celebrated figure among conservationists, wildlife experts, and park managers. In this book, Jerry Emory, a conservationist and writer connected to Wright’s family, draws on hundreds of letters, field notes, archival research, interviews, and more to offer both a biography of Wright and a historical account of a crucial period in the evolution of US parks and the wilderness movement. With a foreword by former NPS director Jonathan B. Jarvis, George Meléndez Wright is a celebration of Wright’s unique upbringing, dynamism, and enduring vision that places him at last in the pantheon of the great American conservationists.
Proceedings of the North American Wildlife Conference Called by President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Category : Wildlife conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Wildlife conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 788
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Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from ... to ...
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 3258
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 3258
Book Description
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the [the Fifty-third] Congress [to the 76th Congress] and of All Departments of the Government of the United States
Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 3260
Book Description
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 3260
Book Description
Monthly Catalog, United States Public Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1878
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1878
Book Description
Elephant Treaties
Author: Rachelle Adam
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1611685001
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Based on a legal history of international biodiversity treaties from the late nineteenth century to the present, Rachelle Adam argues that todayÕs biodiversity crisis is rooted in European colonial history, especially in the conservation treaties that the colonial powers (and their non-governmental counterparts) negotiated to protect AfricaÕs big-game animals. Reflecting on the colonial pastÑparticularly on efforts to manage the commerce in elephant ivoryÑAdam sheds light on why more recent attempts to arrest the decline in biodiversity by way of international agreement have failed. This volume will spur a rethinking of such agreements and trigger a search for alternatives outside of existing international structures.
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1611685001
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Based on a legal history of international biodiversity treaties from the late nineteenth century to the present, Rachelle Adam argues that todayÕs biodiversity crisis is rooted in European colonial history, especially in the conservation treaties that the colonial powers (and their non-governmental counterparts) negotiated to protect AfricaÕs big-game animals. Reflecting on the colonial pastÑparticularly on efforts to manage the commerce in elephant ivoryÑAdam sheds light on why more recent attempts to arrest the decline in biodiversity by way of international agreement have failed. This volume will spur a rethinking of such agreements and trigger a search for alternatives outside of existing international structures.
Forestry Current Literature
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Wildlife Restoration and Conservation
Author:
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Category : Wildlife conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Wildlife conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 778
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New Serial Titles
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1852
Book Description
A union list of serials commencing publication after Dec. 31, 1949.
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1852
Book Description
A union list of serials commencing publication after Dec. 31, 1949.