Product Description: Thoroughly researched and finely crafted, After the Grizzly traces the history of endangered species and habitat in California, from the time of the Gold Rush to the present. Peter S. Alagona shows how scientists and conservationists came to view the fates of endangered species as inextricable from ecological conditions and human activities in the places where those species lived...read more

Product Description: Between fiscal years 2002 and 2007, the refuge system experienced funding and staffing level fluctuations, the introduction of several new policy initiatives, and the increased influence of external factors such as extreme weather that threaten wildlife habitat and visitor infrastructure...read more

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

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From the northern shores and tundra, across the western plains and mountains, to the swamps and southern shores, AMERICA'S WILDLIFE REFUGES honors and celebrates the centennial anniversary and incredible success stories of our nation's wildlife refuges. Larger than our National Park System, the National Wildlife Refuge System is the largest system of lands in the world dedicated to placing "wildlife first." Represented in every state and visited annually by more than 34 million people, there are 538 refuges covering nearly 95 million acres that provide protected habitat for over 2100 species of animals, including 260 of our most imperiled species. The spectacular color photography of Tom and Pat Leeson brings the dramatic beauty of the refuge lands and their inhabitants to life, while author Jeanne Clark tells the amazing success stories of American wildlife, including the brown pelican, the bison, the bald eagle, and the desert pupfish.

Explores the cycle of loss and recovery of many North American ecosystems over the past two centuries, and discusses the factors that contribute to a species' vulnerability to extinction (view table of contents)

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Examines the current status of more than 650 endangered North American species and discusses conservation efforts

Examines the current status of more than 650 endangered North American species and discusses conservation efforts

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Product Description: Book by Williams, Ted

Argues that the traditional approach to conservation has led to too many compromises, and recommends concentrating on ecological systems (view table of contents)

Reveals how U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agents fight poachers with careful, sometimes dangerous, undercover work and focuses on Dave Hall, an agent who singlehandedly took on the Alaska ivory trade

Reveals how U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agents fight poachers with careful, sometimes dangerous, undercover work and focuses on Dave Hall, an agent who singlehandedly took on the Alaska ivory trade

Relates the history of American wildlife conservation practices, discussing the plight of particular species and examining the philosophy and motivations behind wildlife management practices (view table of contents)

Product Description: Theodore Roosevelt, the twenty-sixth president of the United States, was not only the most famous hunter of his generation of Americans, he was among its best informed and popular outdoor writers. Edmund Heller, the well-known Smithsonian biologist who accompanied Roosevelt on the famous African expedition, said that the former president was the world's foremost authority on large mammals...read more