Land use and wildlife resources.

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Agricultural Land Use and Wildlife Resources.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electronic books.

Land use.

Wildlife management.

Local Subjects:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 262 pages)

Place of Publication:

Washington : National Academies Press, 1970.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

""Land Use and Wildlife Resources""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""CHAPTER 1 Historical Perspective""; ""PRIMITIVE CONDITIONS IN NORTH AMERICA""; ""Aftermath of Glaciation""; ""Disturbance Communities""; ""Animal Influences""; ""Fire""; ""Influences of Indian Agriculture""; ""EXPLORATION AND SETTLEMENT""; ""The Fur Trade""; ""Westward Expansion""; ""Changes on the Land""; ""Effects on Wildlife""; ""LAND-USE PLANNING""; ""BIOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF HISTORY""; ""REFERENCES""; ""CHAPTER 2 Wildlife Values in a Changing World""; ""HUMAN SUBSISTENCE BY GATHERING AND HUNTING""

""MAN IN THE FOOD CHAIN""""COMMERCE AND ATTITUDES""; ""Ways to Extinction""; ""Jeopardy of the Migrants""; ""Wild Commodities Today""; ""RECREATION: THE NEW PERSPECTIVE""; ""The Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission and Its Consequences""; ""Difficulties in Acquiring Land""; ""FISHING AND HUNTING SURVEYS""; ""Markets for Gear and Services""; ""Incentives and Realities""; ""MEASURING ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL VALUES""; ""Traditional Assumptions""; ""Quantity versus Quality""; ""Living Standard and Environment""; ""REFERENCES""; ""CHAPTER 3 New Patterns on Land and Water""

""MODERNIZATION OF AGRICULTURE"" ""Trend toward Large Cropping Units""; ""Causes and Effects""; ""Ownership and Tenancy""; ""Impacts of Change""; ""Gains and Losses in the Agricultural Base""; ""New Croplands by Irrigation""; ""Added Acres through Drainage""; ""Changes in Forested Lands""; ""Adjustments in Grassland Area""; ""Land as Living Space""; ""CHANGES IN WATERS AND WETLANDS""; ""Inland Lakes and Marshes""; ""Coastal Lowlands and Estuaries""; ""Rivers and Floodplains""; ""Man-made waters""; ""Tanks, Ponds, and Small Impoundments""; ""Large Reservoirs""

""PROBLEMS OF REMNANT ECOSYSTEMS"" ""The Disappearing Grasslands""; ""Tall Brush of the Rio Grande""; ""Florida Everglades""; ""Preservation of Natural Areas""; ""PUBLIC LANDS FOR PUBLIC PURPOSES""; ""REFERENCES""; ""CHAPTER 4 Influence of Land Management on Wildlife""; ""MULTIPLE USE""; ""Policies on Public Lands""; ""Applications on Private Lands""; ""FOREST AND WOODLAND MANAGEMENT""; ""Wildlife Habitat Objectives""; ""Interspersion of Types""; ""Water Conditions""; ""Timber Management Practices""; ""Rotations and Cutting Cycles""; ""Reforestation and Afforestation""; ""Prescribed Burning""

""Logging"" ""RANGE AND PASTURE LANDS""; ""Effects of Livestock on Wildlife Habitat""; ""Vegetation Changes""; ""Modification of the Fauna""; ""Soil and Water Changes""; ""Management of Livestock Grazing""; ""Brush Country Problems""; ""Mesquite""; ""Juniper""; ""Sagebrush""; ""California Chaparral""; ""Other Brushlands""; ""Range Seeding""; ""WILDLIFE ON CROPLANDS""; ""Intensively Managed Farms""; ""Diversified Farms""; ""Habitat Objectives""; ""Contour Agriculture""; ""Cultural Practices""; ""Problem Sites and Wildlife Plantings""; ""Management Appraisal""; ""Natural Successions"" ""Sponsored Government Programs""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.