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Description: |
xiii, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Bibliography Note: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents Note: |
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. |
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Summary, Etc. Note: |
Summary: This book chronicles the near extinction and subsequent comeback of the double-crested cormorant. |
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Elect. Loc./Access: |
ebrary http://site.ebrary.com/id/10533690 |