eBook, ePUB

North American Wildlife Policy and Law (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

Students, university faculty, and wildlife professionals now have an indispensable book that provides a full and accurate account of natural resource policy and law as it relates to wildlife in North America and beyond. The comprehensive text begins with an in-depth examination of wildlife policy and law, creating a foundation for the subsequent detailed material. This introductory section covers the need and history of wildlife policy and law, wildlife and gun ownership, history of wildlife law and law enforcement, jurisdictional issues among federal, state, provincial, and indigenous peoples as they relate to natural resource management, processes by which policy and laws are formed at various levels of government, statutory law and agency rule-making, relationships of indigenous peoples to natural resources, and usage of natural resources for subsistence.

Technische Details

• Geräte: eReader
• mit Kopierschutz
• Größe: 66.22MB
• FamilySharing(5)

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

Bruce D. Leopold recently retired from Mississippi State University as head of the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Aquaculture (Sharp Distinguished Professor) and Fellow and past president of The Wildlife Society. He resides in Starkville, MS. Winifred B. Kessler is a certified wildlife biologist, fellow, and past president of The Wildlife Society who retired as a regional director of the U.S. Forest Service. Her innovative and integrated approach to natural resources education earned her the British Columbia Academic of the Year Award in 1997. In 2017 Kessler received The Wildlife Society's highest honor, the Aldo Leopold Award. She resides in Prince George, BC. James L. Cummins, a certified fisheries and wildlife biologist by training, is Executive Director of Wildlife Mississippi and Vice President of the Boone and Crockett Club. He has conceptualized and worked to pass numerous pieces of legislation to protect, recover and enhance forests, wetlands, prairie, wildlife and endangered species, primarily with private landowners through the federal tax code and the Farm Bill. He resides in Leland, MS.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boone & Crockett Club
• Seitenzahl: 568
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781940860329
• Artikelnr.: 53038442