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Book SynopsisThe foremost experts on the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation come together to discuss its role in the rescue, recovery, and future of our wildlife resources. At the end of the nineteenth century, North America suffered a catastrophic loss of wildlife driven by unbridled resource extraction, market hunting, and unrelenting subsistence killing. This crisis led powerful political forces in the United States and Canada to collaborate in the hopes of reversing the process, not merely halting the extinctions but returning wildlife to abundance. While there was great understanding of how to manage wildlife in Europe, where wildlife management was an old, mature profession, Continental methods depended on social values often unacceptable to North Americans. Even Canada, a loyal colony of England, abandoned wildlife management as practiced in the mother country and joined forces with like-minded Americans to develop a revolutionary system of wildlife conservation. In time, and su
Trade ReviewThis new book offers a wealth of valuable [and] accessible information about how North American wildlife has been and is presently managed. Indeed, all those who hold an interest in North American lands and the wide range of wildlife species living thereupon would be very much benefited from discovering for themselves just how those who hold responsibility for these species think about them, what their goals for them are, and how they go about their respective work.
—Johannes E. Riutta,
The Well-Read NaturalistTable of ContentsAcknowledgments
About the Contributors
1 The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation: Setting the Stage for Evaluation
Shane P. Mahoney, Valerius Geist, and Paul R. Krausman
2 North American Ecological History as the Foundation of the Model
Valerius Geist and Shane P. Mahoney
3 The Social Context for the Emergence of the North American Model
John Sandlos
4 The Great Early Champions
James Peek
5 Critical Legislative and Institutional Underpinnings of the North American Model
James L. Cummins
6 The Landscape Conservation Movement
William Porter and Kathryn Frens
7 Hunting and Vested Interests as the Spine of the North American Model
James R. Heffelfinger and Shane P. Mahoney
8 Science and the North American Model: Edifice of Knowledge, Exemplar for Conservation
James A. Schaefer
9 North American Waterfowl Management:
An Example of a Highly Effective International Treaty Arrangement for Wildlife Conservation
Shane P. Mahoney
10 Private-Public Collaboration and Institutional Successes in North American Conservation
John F. Organ
11 Social, Economic, and Ecological Challenges to the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation
Leonard A. Brennan, David G. Hewitt, and Shane P. Mahoney
12 A Comparison of the North American Model to Other Conservation Approaches
Rosie Cooney
13 The Model in Transition: From Proactive Leadership to Reactive Conservation
Shane P. Mahoney
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