Thinking like a mountain : Aldo Leopold and the evolution of an ecological attitude toward deer, wolves, and forests / / Susan L. Flader

• Autore: Flader Susan
• Pubblicazione: Madison, WI, : University of Wisconsin Press, [1994], c1974
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (318 p.)
• Disciplina: 574.5/092 B
• Soggetto topico: Ecology - United States - History; Wildlife management - United States - History; Ecologists - United States; Wildlife management - United States; Deer
• Note generali: Originally published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 1974. With new pref.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-276) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Preface: 1994 -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Thinking Like a Mountain -- Evolution and Ecology -- Aldo Leopold as Forester-Conservationist -- The Wisconsin Years -- Toward an Ecological Philosophy -- 2. Southwestern Game Fields -- Diversity and Dissolution -- The Virgin Southwest and What the White Man Has Done to It -- Game Protection: The Cause -- Game Management: The Science -- Southwestern Deer and the Concept of Productivity -- 3. The Gila Experience -- The Gila as Normal Range -- Black Canyon and the Kaibab -- Deer, Wolves, Wilderness, and Roads -- Vagaries of Herd Reduction -- The Deer-Environment Equation -- 4. Means and Ends: The 1930s -- Wisconsin Deer and Deer Policy -- Deer and Dauerwald -- Chequamegon and Chihuahua: The Changing Image -- Rockford and Huron Mountain -- Transmutation of Values -- 5. Too Many Deer -- The Public Problem -- Forebodings -- The Challenge of the Kaibab -- Selling a New Idea -- Commissioner Leopold and the "Crime of ' 43" -- 6. Adventures of a Conservation Commissioner -- Responsibility in a Crisis -- Wolves, Coyotes, and People -- Policy and Public Opinion -- Defining the Public Interest -- Ecology and Irruptions -- 1948: Denouement -- Epilogue -- What Happened in Wisconsin? -- Ecology and Ethics -- Bibliographical Note -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: When initially published more than twenty years ago, Thinking Like a Mountain was the first of a handful of efforts to capture the work and thought of America's most significant environmental thinker, Aldo Leopold. This new edition of Susan Flader's masterful account of Leopold's philosophical journey, including a new preface reviewing recent Leopold scholarship, makes this classic case study available again and brings much-deserved attention to the continuing influence and importance of Leopold today. Thinking Like a Mountain unfolds with Flader's close analysis of Leopold's essay of the same title, which explores issues of predation by studying the interrelationships between deer, wolves, and forests. Flader shows how his approach to wildlife management and species preservation evolved from his experiences restoring the deer population in the Southwestern United States, his study of the German system of forest and wildlife management, and his efforts to combat the overpopulation of deer in Wisconsin. His own intellectual development parallels the formation of the conservation movement, reflecting his struggle to understand the relationship between the land and its human and animal inhabitants. Drawing from the entire corpus of Leopold's works, including published and unpublished writing, correspondence, field notes, and journals, Flader places Leopold in his historical context. In addition, a biographical sketch draws on personal interviews with family, friends, and colleagues to illuminate his many roles as scientist, philosopher, citizen, policy maker, and teacher. Flader's insight and profound appreciation of the issues make Thinking Like a Mountain a standard source for readers interested in Leopold scholarship and the development of ecology and conservation in the twentieth century.
• Titolo autorizzato: Thinking like a mountain
• ISBN: 9786612555343; 9781282555341; 1282555340; 9780299145033; 0299145034
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910966652803321
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