TY - BOOK AU - Alagona,Peter S. TI - After the grizzly: endangered species and the politics of place in california SN - 9780520954410 AV - QL82 .A384 2013 PY - 2013/// CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - Wildlife conservation KW - California KW - United States KW - Endangered species KW - Grizzly bear KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=576737&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -