Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (845 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0307341968 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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--Nancy Bent . Dividing his text into three portions, Sterba examines how the clash between suburbanite and animal came about. From Booklist *Starred Review* Sterba tells the story of, as he puts it, how we turned a wildlife comeback miracle into a mess. The first part covers the history of deforestation, farming, reforestation, and the post-WWII movement into the suburbs. The resurgence of wildlife after near-extermination during the settling and taming of the East fills the second portion. Perhaps the most thought-provoking section discusses how Americans have become removed from the realities of wild animals and of working the land, equating nature with bird-feeding and food with the supermarket. T
Interesting information, but limited. Bill C I found the information interesting. He concentrated on trees, deer, turkeys, Canada geese, and the like, all in the eastern United States. It would have been nice to see more species discussed (perhaps in not as much detail), like squirrels, chipmunks, raccoons, o'possums, and others. Also, only a limited discussion of the mid-West, plains, or Rockies, and essentially nothing about the Pacific coast or Alaska and Hawaii. I am sure that the author annoyed both the animal rights groups and the animal control groups, with perhaps more annoyance to the fo. D. Miller said The Book I'd Been Waiting For. As a 68 year old I've witnessed a fairly dramatic increase in suburban and urban wildlife in my hometown of Berkeley, California and on my fairly regular trips to the Hudson River Valley and elsewhere. I've also noticed that if I bring up the subject that perhaps there are more deer, for example, in my neighborhood than can be supported and maybe a few should be eliminated, I get violent arguments that are more or less "you can't kill Bambi". I've been waiting for a book to address this and here it is. The author's basic premise is that suburbanites an. An excellent book to stimulate your musings on nature and you Humans have transformed the landscape. They have made much of the land around them moresuitable to some selected (few?) "wild" creatures. Now, as those animals (such asturkeys, deer, beavers, geese, and more) move into these modified surroundings, humanswill need to learn how to live with the animals that have learned how to live near them.The story of how the landscape has changed is a story of phases and of who has modifiednature for what purposes. Some of these phases we can only speculate about: (1) beforenative Americans; (2) the dominance of Nati
JIM STERBA has been a foreign correspondent and national affairs reporter for more than four decades for the Wall Street Journal and NewYork Times. . He is the author of Frankie’s Place: A Love Story, about summers in Maine with his wife, the author Frances FitzGerald
People moved first into suburbs on urban edges, and then kept moving out across a landscape once occupied by family farms. Deeply researched, eloquently written, counterintuitive and often humorous Nature Wars will be the definitive book on how we created this unintended mess. . Over decades, they slowly nursed many wild populations back to health. But after the Second World War something happened that conservationists hadn’t foreseen: sprawl. By 2000, a majority of Americans lived in neither cities nor country but in that vast in-between. This may