After the grizzly endangered species and the politics of place in california / Peter S. Alagona.

By:

Alagona, Peter S [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780520954410

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

QL82 .A384 2013

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Contents:

A new movement -- The official landscape -- The laws of nature -- Biography of a "feathered pig" -- Transforming the desert -- The flagship fox -- Just add water? -- Epilogue.

Subject: 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 pol

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Includes bibliographies and index.

The land of the bears -- A new movement -- The official landscape -- The laws of nature -- Biography of a "feathered pig" -- Transforming the desert -- The flagship fox -- Just add water? -- Epilogue.

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 pol

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