Nature Wars
The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds
New York : Crown Publishers, 2012.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: xxiv, 343 pages ; 25 cm
A study on the relationship between humans and nature traces how and why today's people are living more in harmony with the Earth, sharing observations about how overzealous conservation efforts have had unintended consequences.
Contents:
Part One. Forest people -- The spruce illusion -- An epidemic of trees -- Sprawl -- Part Two. Wild beasts -- The fifty pound rodent -- The elegant ungulate -- Lawn carp -- Gobblers -- Teddies -- Part Three. Denatured life -- Doers to viewers -- Roadkill -- Feathered friends -- Feral felines -- Epilogue.
Subjects:
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- United States.
Nature conservation -- Social aspects -- United States.
Wildlife conservation -- Social aspects -- United States.
Wildlife rehabilitation -- Social aspects -- United States.
United States -- Environmental conditions.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- United States.
Nature conservation -- Social aspects -- United States.
Wildlife conservation -- Social aspects -- United States.
Wildlife rehabilitation -- Social aspects -- United States.
United States -- Environmental conditions.
ISBN:
9780307341969
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ANIMALS Ste | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [298]-336) and index.