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Sterba casts a reporters sharp eye on a little noticed war unfolding under our noses, in our own backyards. Dec 12, 2012 jim sterba is a veteran foreign reporter at the wall street journal and onetime war correspondent, but his latest book, nature wars, is about insurgency of a different sort. But for years, wildlife has been hitting the streets of suburbiaand quite often becoming roadkill thats smeared all over those streets. The incredible story of how wildlife comebacks turned backyards into battlegrounds by jim sterba 20, paperback at the best online prices at ebay. Sterba starts by examining the regrowth of americas forests. Nature wars by holahan, david the christian science. Jul 09, 20 5 books explore wildlife and waste in america. Nature wars ebook by jim sterba 9780307985668 rakuten kobo. Jim sterbas new book, nature wars, looks at an unexpected effect of human sprawl. He then carefully, with extensive research, explains the reasons for the regrowth of the eastern forests since the mid1800. This may be hard to believe but it is very likely that more people live in closer proximity to more wild animals, birds and trees in the eastern united states today than anywhere on the planet at any time in history. Jim sterba is a veteran reporter for americas premiere financial newspaper, the wall street journal.
All the while our wellmeaning efforts to protect animals allowed wild. A new book by author jim sterba examines the conflicts between man and the environment. Fortunately we have a wise and witty guide in jim sterba, whose nature wars. He was a foreign correspondent and national reporter for four decades, first for the new york times and then for the wall street journal. For nature lovers, this should be wonderful news unless. Nature wars offers an eyeopening look at how americans lost touch with the natural landscape, spending 90 percent of their time indoors where nature arrives via television, films and digital screens in which wild creatures often behave like people or cuddly pets. Jim sterba has been a foreign correspondent, war correspondent and national correspondent for more than four decades, first for the new york times and then for the wall street journal. It is very likely that more people live in closer proximity to more wild animals, birds and trees in the eastern u. Nature wars by jim sterba wildlife control supplies. Jim sterba highlights a handful of species in a very small biogeographical region of the world that happens to also be in the wealthiest and most privileged nation. Nature wars is a good read if you are not concerned about the issue of scale.
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If there is one lesson to be learned from jim sterba s book, it is. In nature wars, jim sterba lays out battle lines that emerged after populations of species that declined to nearextinction by the end of the 19th century came roaring backthis book is sure to initiate discussion about an issue that seems likely to move closer. The incredible story of how wildlife comebacks turned backyards into battlegrounds. May 17, 2015 jim sterba, nature wars if were ever going to understand how we might relate with nature, well have to come to terms with the notion of shifting baseline syndrome.
The incredible story of how wildlife comebacks turned backyards into battlegrounds, farm abandonment and the slow growth of trees are chief culprits, along with the more rapid wean of people from the natural world, even as theyve ebbed. The incredible story of how wildlife comebacks turned backyards into battlegrounds just hit the streets a few weeks ago. As forest cover has grown back to more than twothirds of its precolonial extent, wildlife recovery from the socalled era of extermination in the last half of the. Shifting baseline syndrome is vancouverbased fisheries scientist daniel pauly s term, but it has rapidly come to be widely accepted. Fortunately we have a wise and witty guide in jim sterba, whose nature wars is my favorite kind of read a book that affectionately recasts much of what we thought we knew about our nations past and our relationship to the american wild, while at the same time revealing how intimately we ourselves are a part of nature, but in the most surprising and unexpected ways.
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