An American Crusade for Wildlife - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An American Crusade for Wildlife write by James B. Trefethen. This book was released on 1975. An American Crusade for Wildlife available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Boone and Crocket Club book.
The Most Defiant Devil
The Most Defiant Devil - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Most Defiant Devil write by Gregory J. Dehler. This book was released on 2013-08-12. The Most Defiant Devil available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The late nineteenth and early twentieth century were a brutal time for American wildlife, with many species pushed to the brink of extinction. (Some are endangered to this day.) And yet these decades also saw the dawn of the conservationist movement. Into this contradictory era came William Temple Hornaday, a larger-than-life dynamo who almost uncannily embodies these conflicting threads in our history. In The Most Defiant Devil, a compelling new biography of this complex figure, Gregory Dehler explores the life of Hornaday the hunter, museum builder, zoologist, author, conservationist, and anti-Bolshevist crusader. A deeply religious man, he was nonetheless anything but peaceful and was racist even by his era’s standards, going so far as to display an Mbuti pygmy as a "living specimen" in a zoo. A passionate hunter, Hornaday killed thousands of animals, including some of the last wild buffalo in America, but he was far ahead of his time in his influential views on the protection of wildlife. Hornaday designed and built the New York Zoological Park (which became the Bronx Zoo) and was chief taxidermist for what would later become the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.In this single, fascinating individual, we can discern some of the Progressive Era's most destructive forces and some of its most enlightened visions.
Crusade for Wildlife
Crusade for Wildlife - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Crusade for Wildlife write by James B. Trefethen. This book was released on 1961. Crusade for Wildlife available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Wilderness Warrior
The Wilderness Warrior - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Wilderness Warrior write by Douglas Brinkley. This book was released on 2009-07-28. The Wilderness Warrior available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From New York Times bestselling historian Douglas Brinkley comes a sweeping historical narrative and eye-opening look at the pioneering environmental policies of President Theodore Roosevelt, avid bird-watcher, naturalist, and the founding father of America’s conservation movement. In this groundbreaking epic biography, Douglas Brinkley draws on never-before-published materials to examine the life and achievements of our “naturalist president.” By setting aside more than 230 million acres of wild America for posterity between 1901 and 1909, Theodore Roosevelt made conservation a universal endeavor. This crusade for the American wilderness was perhaps the greatest U.S. presidential initiative between the Civil War and World War I. Roosevelt’s most important legacies led to the creation of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and passage of the Antiquities Act in 1906. His executive orders saved such treasures as Devils Tower, the Grand Canyon, and the Petrified Forest.
The Great American Wolf
The Great American Wolf - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Great American Wolf write by Bruce Hampton. This book was released on 1997-11-15. The Great American Wolf available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For more than 300 years, the wolf was North America's most reviled beast, pursued to the brink of extinction throughout the United States. Then, within the last half-century, public opinion changed and the wolf became the symbol of the wilderness, tolerated and even desired over much of its former range. insert. 2 maps.
