Wolves and human communities
Subtitle: biology, politics, and ethics
By: edited by Virginia A. Sharpe, Bryan G. Norton, and Strachan Donnelley.
Contributors: Sharpe, Virginia A. 1959-; Norton, Bryan G.; Donnelley, Strachan.
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
Subjects: Wolves -- New York (State) -- Adirondack Mountains; Wolves -- Reintroduction -- New York (State) -- Adirondack Mountains; Human-animal relationships -- New York (State) -- Adirondack Mountains
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-302) and index.
Table of contents: title: Wolves as bioregional sovereigns / Daniel Kemmis; title: Wolf restoration to the Adirondacks : the advantages and disadvantages of public participation in the decision / L. David Mech; title: Wolf restoration in the Adirondacks : the perspective of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation / Robert A. Inslerman; title: Wolves in the Adirondacks? Perspectives from the heart of the Adirondack Park / Richard W. Sage, Jr.; title: The two-leggeds and the four-leggeds / Eli Thomas; title: Facilitating citizen participation in Adirondack wolf recovery / Nina Fascione and Stephen R. Kendrot; title: Overcoming cultural barriers to wolf reintroduction / Rodger Schlickeisen; title: In wolves' clothing : restoration and the challenge to stewardship / Jan E. Dizard; title: Tracking a new relationship : the wolf in New York law / Nicholas A. Robinson; title: Legal and policy challenges of environmental restoration / Joseph L. Sax; title: Lessons from wolf restoration in Greater Yellowstone / Timothy Clark and Anne-Marie Gillesberg; title: Wolves as top carnivores : new faces in new places / Rolf O. Peterson; title: Reintroduction : inspired policy or poor conservation? / Christine L. Schadler; title: The problem of living with wildness / Mary Midgley; title: Leopold's wildness : can humans and wolves be at home in the Adirondacks? / Strachan Donnelley; title: The tonic of wildness / Ernest Partridge; title: What do we owe the future? How should we decide? / Bryan G. Norton; title: Sustainability, environmental policy, and the reintroduction of wolves / Clark Wolf; title: The ecological implications of wolf restoration : contemporary ecological principles and linkages with social processes / Steward T.A. Pickett and Ricardo Rozzi; title: A hard sell : the cultural-ecological context of reintroducing wolves to the Adirondacks / Niles Eldredge.