Backyard battle plan
Subtitle: the ultimate guide to controlling wildlife damage in your garden
By: Cooper Rutledge.
Publisher: Penguin Studio
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
Subjects: Mammal pests -- Control.; Wildlife pests -- Control.; Garden pests -- Control.; Mammal pests -- United States.; Wildlife pests -- United States.; Garden pests -- United States.
Description: This book takes a stand on the fastest-growing threat to our gardens: animal damage. Ecological imbalance and protectionist policies have produced a skyrocketing population of problem animals. Deer alone number thirty times what they did a century ago. With animal-related property losses totaling $3 billion a year, America's summer backyard--suburban and urban--is under siege. But our romanticization of wildlife, the author argues, blinds us to our need for a balance of preservation and control, even elimination. Part I of Backyard Battle Plan is a complete A-to-Z guide that defines the enemy--from beavers to problem birds and coyotes to woodchucks--and discusses the animals' habitats and the diseases they carry. Part Il is a detailed discussion of control methods from fencing to poisoning to hunting. Complete with information boxes and sidebars, this is an honest primer on an issue we dare not keep taboo.--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-214) and index.