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Alligators : prehistoric presence in the American landscape / Martha A. Strawn ; with essays by LeRoy Overstreet, Jane Gibson, J. Whitfield Gibbons.
Author
Strawn, Martha
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Format
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Language
English
Published/Created
Baltimore, Md : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1997.
Description
227 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
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Lewis Library - Stacks
QL666.C925 S82 1997
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American alligator
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Southern States
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American alligator
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Southern States
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Illustrated works
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illustrated books
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Series
Creating the North American landscape
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Summary note
During the past nine years, photographer Martha Strawn has taken more than 40,000 photographs of the alligator - in freshwater marshes and swamps, lakes and ponds, rivers, bayous, brackish estuaries, and saltwater coastal marshes and backwaters, from Texas to North Carolina. Alligators, Prehistoric Presence in the American Landscape offers a selection of 151 of Strawn's photographs in a unique book that combines art, science, history, folklore, land ethics, and literature to tell the story of America's southern landscape and one of its most evocative creatures. Strawn covers such topics as mating and reproduction, hunting, loss of habitat, resource management, and the commercial mean and skin industries. Three personal essays bring home the relationship between alligators and humans: "Memories of Gator Hunts," by alligator hunter LeRoy Overstreet; "Living by the Wetlands," by Jane Gibson, a conservation anthropologist; and "Living with Alligators," by ecologist J. Whitfield Gibbons. These stories give voice to the people - hunters, alligator farmers, meat and skin processors, scientists, and wildlife managers - who spend their days and nights with this noble member of the order Crocodilia.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-219) and index.
Contents
Alligators in the American Landscape
Mysterious Crocodilia
Wetlands and Deepwaters
Alligator Management
Destruction
Animals and Habitat
Eyeshine
Memories of Gator Hunts / LeRoy Overstreet
The Hunt
The Catch
The Weigh-in
Products
Mating
Baby Gators
Resource Management
Effects of Human Population
"Water" / Gill Holland
Pollution
Fire and Fertility
Sustainable Use of Natural Resources
"The Alligator and the Hunter"
The Land
"Marsh" / Kevin Bezner
The Land as Habitat
Alligator Research
Ranching and Farming
Living by the Wetlands / Jane Gibson
Processing
Alligator
"Big Alligator" / James E. Billie
A Different Way
"Fire in the Swamp"
Prehistoric Presence
"Guessing the Alligators at the Charles Towne Landing" / Gill Holland
Mutuality
Deepwaters
"Florida" / Elizabeth Bishop
Living with Alligators / J. Whitfield Gibbons
Four Views of the Everglades
Blackwater
"Eyeshine" / Martha A. Strawn
"Meditation" / Diane Ackerman
Wetlands
Coda.
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ISBN
0801852897
9780801852893
LCCN
96013762
OCLC
34409952
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