The double-crested cormorant : plight of a feathered pariah / Linda R. Wires ; with original illustrations by Barry Kent MacKay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wires, Linda R., author.

Contributor:

MacKay, Barry Kent, 1943- illustrator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Double-crested cormorant.

Double-crested cormorant--Conservation.

Fishery management--United States.

Fishery management.

Bird populations.

Bird pests.

United States.

Fishery management--Canada.

Canada.

Bird pests--North America.

Bird populations--North America.

North America.

Physical Description:

xviii, 349 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]

Contents:

Aristotle's raven : an introduction to cormorants

The double-crested cormorant

European colonization and the making of a pariah

From Audubon to conservation : the first wave of recovery

Reversal of fortunes : another decline and the second recovery

Fish ponds and reservoirs : the context for conflict on the wintering grounds

Animal damage control and the first standing depredation order for cormorants

Conflicts on the breeding grounds

The second standing depredation order for cormorants

A half million and counting : implementation of management policies in the United States

Looking north to Canada : limitations to management beyond the 49th parallel

Untangling the mysteries between predator and prey

Adaptive management : a process gone awry

Back to the wintering grounds : liberties with science and policy

Engineer or destroyer : the case of the catastrophic ecosystem flip

Opening Pandora's box : some ethical implications of cormorant management

Afterword : What future for cormorants?.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-335) and index.

ISBN:

0300187114

9780300187113

OCLC:

861322954