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Thinking like a mountain : Aldo Leopold and the evolution of an ecological attitude toward deer, wolves, and forests /
"When initially published more than twenty years ago, Thinking Like a Mountain was the first of a handful of efforts to capture the work and thought of America's most significant environmental thinker, Aldo Leopold. This new edition of Susan Flader's masterful account of Leopold'...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Madison, Wis. :
University of Wisconsin Press,
[1994].
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Thinking like a mountain. Evolution and ecology ; Aldo Leopold as forester-conservationist ; The Wisconsin years ; Toward an ecological philosophy
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Too many deer. The public problem ; Forebodings ; The challenge of the Kaibab ; Selling a new idea ; Commissioner Leopold and the "crime of '43"
- 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
- List of figures. Factors of productivity in relation to population (mule deer) ; Gila Headwaters Area, 1929 ; Kaibab and Wisconsin deer irruption histories ; Wisconsin deer range.