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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463108203321

Autore

Alagona Peter S

Titolo

After the grizzly [[electronic resource] ] : endangered species and the politics of place in California / / Peter S. Alagona

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2013

ISBN

0-520-95441-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (332 p.)

Disciplina

591.68

Soggetti

Wildlife conservation - California

Wildlife conservation - United States

Endangered species - California

Endangered species - United States

Grizzly bear - California

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE. The Land of the Bears -- CHAPTER TWO. A New Movement -- CHAPTER THREE. The Official Landscape -- CHAPTER FOUR. The Laws of Nature -- CHAPTER FIVE. The California Condor. From Controversy to Consensus -- CHAPTER SIX. The Mojave Desert Tortoise. Ambassador for the Outback -- CHAPTER SEVEN. The San Joaquin Kit Fox. The Flagship Fox -- CHAPTER EIGHT. The Delta Smelt. Water Politics by Another Name -- EPILOGUE -- NOTES -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Thoroughly researched and finely crafted, After the Grizzly traces the history of endangered species and habitat in California, from the time of the Gold Rush to the present. Peter S. Alagona shows how scientists and conservationists came to view the fates of endangered species as inextricable from ecological conditions and human activities in the places where those species lived. Focusing on the stories of four high-profile endangered species-the California condor, desert tortoise, Delta smelt, and San Joaquin kit fox-Alagona offers an absorbing account of how Americans developed a political system capable of producing and



sustaining debates in which imperiled species serve as proxies for broader conflicts about the politics of place. The challenge for conservationists in the twenty-first century, this book claims, will be to redefine habitat conservation beyond protected wildlands to build more diverse and sustainable landscapes.