Deerland
Deerland

Author: Al Cambronne

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2013-03-21

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 0762793155

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In 1942 America fell in love with Bambi. But now, that love-affair has turned sour. Behind the unassuming grace and majesty of America’s whitetail deer is the laundry list of human health, social, and ecological problems that they cause. They destroy crops, threaten motorists, and spread Lyme disease all across the United States. In Deerland, Al Cambronne travels across the country, speaking to everybody from frustrated farmers, to camo-clad hunters, to humble deer-enthusiasts in order to get a better grasp of the whitetail situation. He discovers that the politics surrounding deer run surprisingly deep, with a burgeoning hunting infrastructure supported by state government and community businesses. Cambronne examines our history with the whitetail, pinpoints where our ecological problems began, and outlines the environmental disasters we can expect if our deer population continues to go unchecked. With over 30 million whitetail in the US, Deerland is a timely and insightful look at the ecological destruction being wrecked by this innocent and adored species. Cambronne asks tough questions about our enviroment’s future and makes the impact this invasion has on our own backyards.

City Critters
City Critters

Author: Nicholas Read

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

Published: 2012-04

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1554693950

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Discusses the lives of wild animals that live in a North American urban environment--

The Hunter's Game
The Hunter's Game

Author: Louis S. Warren

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1997-01-01

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780300080865

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The Hunter's Game reveals that early wildlife conservation was driven not by heroic idealism, but by the interests of recreational hunters and the tourist industry. As American wildlife populations declined at the end of the nineteenth century, elite, urban sportsmen began to lobby for game laws that would restrict the customary hunting practices of immigrants, Indians, and other local hunters.

Lyme Disease
Lyme Disease

Author: Richard Ostfeld

Publisher: OUP USA

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 0195388127

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A review of research on the ecology of Lyme disease in North America describes how humans get sick, why some years and places are so risky and others not, and offers a new understanding that embraces the complexity of species and their interactions.

Urban Wildlife Management
Urban Wildlife Management

Author: Clark E. Adams

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2009-11-24

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 1439882193

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When the first edition of Urban Wildlife Management was published two years ago, it provided conservationists, ecologists, and wildlife professionals with a welcome shift in the way that interactions between humans and wildlife were viewed and managed. Instead of focusing on ways to evict or eradicate wildlife encroached on by urban development, th

Heart and Blood
Heart and Blood

Author: Richard Nelson

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 1998-09-29

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13:

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Examines the physiology of deer, and describes how they have had to adapt to man's encroachment on their natural environments in varied parts of the United States.

Peyote Hunt
Peyote Hunt

Author: Barbara G. Myerhoff

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780801491375

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"Ramón Medina Silva, a Huichol Indian shaman priest or mara'akame, instructed me in many of his culture's myths, rituals, and symbols, particularly those pertaining to the sacred untiy of deer, maize, and peyote. The significance of this constellation of symbols was revealed to me most vividly when I accompanied Ramón on the Huichol's annual ritual return to hunt the peyote in the sacred land of Wirikuta, in myth and probably in history the place from which the Ancient Ones (ancestors and deities of the present-day Indians) came before settling in their present home in the mountains of the Sierra Madre Occidental in north-central Mexico. My work with Ramón preceded and followed our journey, but it was this peyote hunt that held the key to, and constituted the climax of, his teachings."--from the Preface

Deer Hunting with Jesus
Deer Hunting with Jesus

Author: Joe Bageant

Publisher: Crown

Published: 2008-06-24

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0307449572

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Years before Hillbilly Elegy and White Trash, a raucous, truth-telling look at the white working poor -- and why they have learned to hate liberalism. What it adds up to, he asserts, is an unacknowledged class war. By turns tender, incendiary, and seriously funny, this book is a call to arms for fellow progressives with little real understanding of "the great beery, NASCAR-loving, church-going, gun-owning America that has never set foot in a Starbucks." Deer Hunting with Jesus is Joe Bageant’s report on what he learned when he moved back to his hometown of Winchester, Virginia. Like countless American small towns, it is fast becoming the bedrock of a permanent underclass. Two in five of the people in his old neighborhood do not have high school diplomas or health care. Alcohol, overeating, and Jesus are the preferred avenues of escape. He writes of: • His childhood friends who work at factory jobs that are constantly on the verge of being outsourced • The mortgage and credit card rackets that saddle the working poor with debt • The ubiquitous gun culture—and why the left doesn’ t get it • Scots Irish culture and how it played out in the young life of Lynddie England