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

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Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation - Jacoby, Karl
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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 ...

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Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation 2014, University of California Press, Berkerley

ISBN-13: 9780520282292

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Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation 2003, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

ISBN-13: 9780520239098

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