Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds-Fast Shipping

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Title: Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds

Author: Jim Sterba

ISBN: 9780307341976

Publisher: Crown

Published: 2013

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

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For four hundred years, explorers, traders, and settlers plundered North American wildlife in an escalating rampage, but in the twentieth century an incredible turnaround took place. Conservationists created wildlife sanctuaries, restored habitats, and imposed regulations on hunters and trappers. Over decades, they nursed many wild populations back to health.

Then, after World War II, something happened that conservationists hadn’t foreseen: sprawl. People moved into suburbs, and then kept moving outward. All the while, well-meaning efforts to protect animals allowed wild populations to burgeon out of control, causing damage costing billions, degrading ecosystems, and touching off disputes that polarized communities. The result is a mix of people and wildlife that should be an animal-lover’s dream, but often turns into a sprawl-dweller’s researched, eloquently written, and perceptively humorous, Nature Wars expresses the need for organic reconnection with our natural ecosystem by offering a provocative look at how Americans created an inadvertent mess.