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After the Grizzly: Endangered Species and the Politics of Place in California (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520355545)
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xThoroughly 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.
Focusing on the stories of four high-profile endangered species--the California condor, desert tortoise, Delta smelt, and San Joaquin kit fox--Alagona offers an absorbing account of how Americans developed a political system capable of producing and sustaining debates in which imperiled species serve as proxies for broader conflicts about the politics of place. The challenge for conservationists in the twenty-first century, this book claims, will be to redefine habitat conservation beyond protected wildlands to build more diverse and sustainable landscapes.
Author: Peter S. Alagona
ISBN-10: 0520355547
ISBN-13: 9780520355545
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 02/25/2020
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.50w x 1.10d
Focusing on the stories of four high-profile endangered species--the California condor, desert tortoise, Delta smelt, and San Joaquin kit fox--Alagona offers an absorbing account of how Americans developed a political system capable of producing and sustaining debates in which imperiled species serve as proxies for broader conflicts about the politics of place. The challenge for conservationists in the twenty-first century, this book claims, will be to redefine habitat conservation beyond protected wildlands to build more diverse and sustainable landscapes.
Author: Peter S. Alagona
ISBN-10: 0520355547
ISBN-13: 9780520355545
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 02/25/2020
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.50w x 1.10d
By Peter S. Alagona
xPeter S. Alagona is Associate Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was previously a Bill Lane Fellow at Stanford and Beagle Environmental Fellow at Harvard and has worked as a national park ranger and a consulting ecologist.
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