num_pages: 328
description: Crimes against Nature reveals the hidden history behind three of the nation's first 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.
language: English
title: Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation
titlecomplete: Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation
genres: Nature, History, Environment, Science, American History, Politics, Read For School, Academic, Conservation, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 277
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Littleton-Griswold Prize, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: George Perkins Marsh Prize
publisher: University of California Press