Nature’s nations: the shared conservation history of Canada and the USA

Historians often study the history of conservation within the confines of national borders, concentrating on the bureaucratic and political manifestations of policy within individual governments. Even studies of the popular expression of conservationist ideas are generally limited to the national or sub-national (province, state, etc.) scale. This paper suggests that conservationist discourse, policy and practice in Canada and the USA were the products of a significant cross-border movement of ideas and initiatives derived from common European sources. In addition, the historical development of common approaches to conservation in North America suggests, contrary to common assumptions, that Canada did not always lag behind the USA in terms of policy innovation. The basic tenets of conservation (i.e. state control over resource, class-based disdain for subsistence hunters and utilitarian approaches to resource management) have instead developed at similar time periods and along parallel ideological paths in Canada and the USA

Camp-Fires on Desert and Lava

As a companion volume to ‘Campfires in the Canadian Rockies,’ this book covers an expedition made by Hornaday and a party of friends from Tucson, Arizona across the desert to Northwestern Mexico. His narrative details the terrain that they covered and the wildlife they encountered, as well as unqiue experiences told with humor, vigor and a raciness of phrase. This book provided by the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records is the 1983 alternative edition

Hornaday\u27s \u27The American Natural History\u27

Volume: 21Start Page: 394End Page: 39

Hornaday\u27s \u27Wild Life Conservation in Theory and Practice\u27

Volume: 32Start Page: 248End Page: 24