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Wildlife, Land, and People: A Century of Change in Prairie Canada (Carleton Library Series)

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Encounters with wild animals are a number of the most significant relationships between humans and the flora and fauna. Presenting a history of human interactions with Flora and fauna in Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan between 1870 and 1960, Flora and fauna, Land, and People examines the confrontations that led to diverse consequences – from the near annihilation of a few species to the odd preservation of others – and skilfully finds the roots of these relationships in people’s needs for food, sport, security, economic development, personal fulfillment, and identity. Donald Wetherell shows how utilitarian practices, in which humans viewed animals either as friendly sources of profit or as threats to their economic and personal security, dominated until the 1960s. Alongside these views, then again, other attitudes asserted that wild animals were a part of the beauty, mystery, and order of the flora and fauna. Wetherell outlines the ways in which this attitude gained strength after World War II, distinguished by a growing conviction that each species has ecological value. Through a century in which the natural landscape of the prairie region was once radically transformed by human activity, conflicts developed over fur and game management, over Aboriginal use of the land, and over the preservation of endangered species like bison and elk. Yet the period also saw the creation of national parks, zoos, and natural history societies. Drawing on a big selection of historical sources and photographs in addition to current approaches to environmental history, Flora and fauna, Land, and People enriches our understanding of the many-layered relationships between humans and nature.

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