Thinking Like a Mountain : Aldo Leopold and the Evolution of an Ecological Attitude Toward Deer, Wolves, and Forests.
Flader, Susan L.
Thinking Like a Mountain : Aldo Leopold and the Evolution of an Ecological Attitude Toward Deer, Wolves, and Forests. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (318 pages)
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.
9780299145033
Leopold, Aldo,-1886-1948.
Ecology-United States-History.
Wildlife management-United States-History.
Ecologists-United States-Biography.
Wildlife management-United States-Biography.
Deer.
Electronic books.
QH31
574.5/092 B
Thinking Like a Mountain : Aldo Leopold and the Evolution of an Ecological Attitude Toward Deer, Wolves, and Forests. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (318 pages)
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.
9780299145033
Leopold, Aldo,-1886-1948.
Ecology-United States-History.
Wildlife management-United States-History.
Ecologists-United States-Biography.
Wildlife management-United States-Biography.
Deer.
Electronic books.
QH31
574.5/092 B