Predatory Bureaucracy: The Extermination of Wolves and the Transformation of the West
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| Rating | : | 4.42 (612 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 087081818X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 473 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Michael J. He lives in New Mexico.. Robinson is carnivore conservation coordinator for the Center for Biological Diversity
"Robinson's thorough history of our war against the wolf in the West is insightful, eloquent, humble, and much needed." -- Dave Foreman, Co-founder of Earth First!
Drawing on deep research and wide reading, Robinson's vivid narrative follows the wolves from the eras of explorers, mountain men, and bounty hunters through the wolves' 120-year entanglement with the federal government. Federal predator control nearly eliminated wolves throughout the United States and Mexico and radically changed American lands and wildlife populations. Bureau of Biological Survey. Predatory Bureaucracy is the definitive history of America’s wolves and our policies toward predators. The story Michael Robinson tells in Predatory Bureaucracy will fascinate readers interested in wildlife, nature, agriculture, and environmental politics.. Tracking wolves from Coronado’s day to the present, author Michael Robinson shows that their story merges with that of the U.S. This
I recommend this book for anyone concerned with the environment. Dr. Pearl Katz I recommend this book for anyone concerned with the environment and the effect of government policies on the environment. It is an impressive, well-written scholarly work. It traces national and local policies toward (against) wolves from the mid-19th century to the present. The research is thorough and extensive. It demonstrates a profound understanding of the relationship between government and land-owners and the implications of policies for the ecology of the Western U.S. It includes an unprecedented detailed count of the wolves, coyotes. HOWLING TO THE CHOIR: Lauren Sheldrake Wolves in the West from Rout to Reintroductionby Wayne Sheldrake, Author of "Instant Karma: the Heart and Soul of a Ski Bum" It takes a little romance to feel a kinship with wolves, but to become involved in the process of their protection and reintroduction one has to be practical. Michael Robinson, an avowed wolf activist is a practical romantic. Predatory Bureaucracy: The Extermination of Wolves and the Transformation of the West keeps the wilderness poetics to a minimum and lets the history, legislation and law of extinction speak for it. Informative history of wolves in the West Before you open it for the first time, Predatory Bureaucracy can be bit intimidating due to its length. But once I finally started reading, the pages melted away quickly. Even though I knew the ultimate outcome of the wolf history described in the book - the ultimate reintroduction to great controversy and current/recent debates over delisting them, and the additional difficulties in the Southwest - the parts of Predatory Bureaucracy that transition from chronicling the persecution of predators to a growing appreciation for their value someh