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Description: |
xxxiv, 481 pages : illustrations, charts, maps ; 23 cm |
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General Note: |
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Scribner, 1933. With a new foreword. |
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Bibliography Note: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-449) and index. |
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Contents Note: |
Contents: PART I: MANAGEMENT THEORY: A history of ideas in game management -- Mechanisms of game management -- Properties of game population: fluctuation and density -- Properties of game population: movements, tolerances, and sex and flock habits -- Game range -- PART II: MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUE: Management of game populations; game census -- Management and diagnosis of productivity -- Game refuges -- Control of hunting -- Predator control -- Control of food and water -- Control of cover -- Control of disease -- Accidents -- Miscellaneous techniques -- PART III: GAME ADMINISTRATION: Game economics and esthetics -- Game policy and administration -- Game as a profession. |
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Summary, Etc. Note: |
Subject: With this book, published more than a half-century ago, Aldo Leopold created the discipline of wildlife management. Although A Sand Country Almanac is doubtless Leopold's most popular book, Game Management may well be his most important. In this book he revolutionized the field of conservation. -- Publisher's description. |