Lost Wild America

by McClung, Robert M.; Hines, Bob

• ISBN13: 9780208023599
• ISBN10: 0208023593
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-02-01
• Publisher: Linnet Books

Summary

Traces the history of wildlife conservation and environmental politics in America to 1992, and describes various extinct or endangered species.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xiii
Acknowledgments	xv
I VICTIMS OF THE PAST
Explorers and Pioneers: America until 1800	3	(8)
The Westward Sweep, 1800 to 1880	11	(3)
Dead as a Dodo	14	(25)
Some Came Back: The Start of Wildlife Conservation, 1880 to 1920	39	(37)
The Developing Science of Wildlife Management, 1920 to 1940	76	(7)
On the Brink	83	(19)
The Growing Environmental Crisis, 1940 to 1963	102	(7)
Politics and the Environment, 1963 to 1993	109	(14)
II POSSIBLE VICTIMS OF THE FUTURE
The Never-Ending War Against the Predators	123	(19)
The Hoofed Mammals	142	(11)
Whales, Vanishing Giants of the Sea	153	(13)
Other Marine Mammals	166	(10)
Hard-Pressed Birds of Prey and Parrots	176	(17)
Waterfowl, Game, and Wading Birds	193	(14)
Even the Fall of a Sparrow	207	(11)
Endangered Reptiles and Amphibians	218	(10)
Clean Waters and Fish	228	(13)
Butterflies and Other Invertebrates	241	(8)
Humanity, An Endangered Species	249	(10)
Selected Bibliography	259	(8)
Index	267