Thinking like a mountain : Aldo Leopold and the evolution of an ecological attitude toward deer, wolves, and forests / / Susan L. Flader
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Flader Susan
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Thinking like a mountain : Aldo Leopold and the evolution of an ecological attitude toward deer, wolves, and forests / / Susan L. Flader
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| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Thinking like a mountain |
| ISBN: | 1-282-55534-0 |
| 9786612555343 | |
| 0-299-14503-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910818766003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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