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Big Game in Alaska: A History of Wildlife and People

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With the Klondike gold rush, a struggle erupted in Alaska between the safety of huge game animals and man’s economic ambitions, a riveting story chronicled by Morgan Sherwood in Big Game in Alaska.

In concise and clear prose, Sherwood charts the history of this environmental and political conflict, examining the creation of the Alaska Game Commission within the early 1930s, the usage of distorted science and menacing technologies, the antipathy of farmers and fishermen toward animals, and the present belief in man’s right to shoot wild animals at will. An incisive historical take a look at of the unsuitable attempts to control big game predation, Big Game in Alaska shall be crucial reading for historians and environmentalists alike.
 

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