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Listed : Dispatches from America's Endangered Species Act.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (369 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674061279
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: ListedDDC classification:
  • 333.95/22160973
LOC classification:
  • QH76 .R64 2011
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Prologue: Boiling Spring -- 1. In the Name of the Darter -- 2. The Class of '67 -- 3. Notes from the Vortex -- 4. The Endangered Species Act -- 5. A Handy Handle -- 6. Natural Capital -- 7. Magical Thinking -- 8. Grand Experiments -- 9. The Panther's New Genes -- 10. Safe Harbor -- 11. Crying Wolves -- 12. Skating over Thin Ice -- 13. Raising Whales -- 14. Questing -- 15. The Hundred Acre Wood -- 16. In Which We Upset the Ethnobotanists -- 17. Water Wars -- 18. The Most Beautiful Sound -- 19. The Platinum Blonde and the Farm Girl -- Epilogue: Extinction's in the House -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: A lot has changed since the 1970s, when the tiny snail darter went extinct on the Little Tennessee River. Joe Roman helps us understand why we should all be happy about the sweeping law that made these changes possible. Listed is an engaging tale of endangered species in the wild and the people working to save them.
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Intro -- Contents -- Prologue: Boiling Spring -- 1. In the Name of the Darter -- 2. The Class of '67 -- 3. Notes from the Vortex -- 4. The Endangered Species Act -- 5. A Handy Handle -- 6. Natural Capital -- 7. Magical Thinking -- 8. Grand Experiments -- 9. The Panther's New Genes -- 10. Safe Harbor -- 11. Crying Wolves -- 12. Skating over Thin Ice -- 13. Raising Whales -- 14. Questing -- 15. The Hundred Acre Wood -- 16. In Which We Upset the Ethnobotanists -- 17. Water Wars -- 18. The Most Beautiful Sound -- 19. The Platinum Blonde and the Farm Girl -- Epilogue: Extinction's in the House -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

A lot has changed since the 1970s, when the tiny snail darter went extinct on the Little Tennessee River. Joe Roman helps us understand why we should all be happy about the sweeping law that made these changes possible. Listed is an engaging tale of endangered species in the wild and the people working to save them.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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