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Wildlife conservationists now realize that the management and fate of wildlife species are being impacted by a diversity of conflicting attitudes and opinions of hunters, nonhunters, anti-hunters, animal rights activists, animal welfare proponents, developers, and politicians. Gray provides a much needed, highly readable synthesis of the literature--experiences, insights, and research findings--of this human dimension of wildlife conservation. He covers the subject logically in eight chapters, starting with aboriginal human-wildlife relations and a history of wildlife in North America. He covers attitudes toward hunting; economics of hunting and trapping; impacts and ethics of hunting and trapping; scientific, educational, and recreational values of wildlife; development of wildlife attitudes; preferences for wildlife; animal rights and welfare; and wildlife policy, law, and administration. The chapters are supplemented with short essays on topics such as conflicts of wildlife ideals and wildlife attitudes and familiar animals. Extensive bibliography; detailed index. Essential reading for wildlife professionals and conservation activists. General; community college; undergraduate through faculty. R. L. Smith; West Virginia University
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