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The double-crested cormorant : symbol of ecological conflict / Dennis Wild.
LIBRA QL696.P4745 W55 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wild, Dennis.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Double-crested cormorant--North America.
- Double-crested cormorant.
- Double-crested cormorant--Economic aspects--North America.
- Bird pests--North America.
- Bird pests.
- Human-animal relationships--North America.
- Human-animal relationships.
- North America.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2012]
- Contents:
- Assault on Little Galloo Island : an act of desperation
- From mysterious rerscuer to a partner to a fowl curse
- Flight : when a dinosaur looked down upon gravity
- A time to sink and swim
- The face of extinction : eggshells versus DDT
- Champlain, Native peoples, and Henderson Harbor
- Fishing America's "fifth coast"
- Ashmole's halo : a righteous model of what should have happened
- Little Galloo Island revisited : praise and outrage
- Treaties and legislation : war of the wilderness
- Agencies and wildlife conservation at work : cormorants in a vise
- Catfish on a shoestring : a primer
- The annual battle of the ponds
- Fortune, timelines, and their intersections : when worlds collide
- Concessions and conclusions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0472117637
- 9780472117635
- 9780472028122
- 047202812X
- OCLC:
- 766606562
- Publisher Number:
- 99948023170
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