Crimes Against Nature Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation

Name: Crimes Against Nature Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation
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ISBN: 9780520239098

ISBN-10: 0520239091

ISBN-13: 9780520239098

Edition: 2003

Authors: Karl Jacoby

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Crimes against Nature reveals the hidden history behind three of the nation's first parklands: the Adirondacks, Yellowstone, and the Grand Canyon. Focusing on conservation's impact on local inhabitants, Karl Jacoby traces the effect of criminalizing such traditional practices as hunting, fishing, foraging, and timber cutting in the newly created parks. Jacoby reassesses the nature of these "crimes" and provides a rich portrait of rural people and their relationship with the natural world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 3/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 324
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English



List of Illustrations


List of Tables


Preface


Introduction: The Hidden History of American Conservation



Forest: the Adirondacks



The Re-creation of Nature



Public Property and Private Parks



Working-Class Wilderness



Mountain: Yellowstone



Nature and Nation



Fort Yellowstone



Modes of Poaching and Production



Desert: the Grand Canyon



The Havasupai Problem



Farewell Song


Epilogue: Landscapes of Memory and Myth


Chronology of American Conservation


Notes


Bibliography


Index