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Our Vanishing Wild Life

William Temple Hornaday

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We are weary of witnessing the greed, selfishness and cruelty of “civilized” man toward the wild creatures of the earth. We are sick of tales of slaughter and pictures of carnage. It is time for a sweeping Reformation; and that is precisely what we now demand. -William Temple Hornaday

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .destruction of noxious predatory animals in the national forest reserves has seriously occupied the attention of the United States Bureau of Forestry. By the foresters of that bureau the following animals were destroyed in fifteen western states:

213 Bears 6,487 Coyotes 88 Mountain Lions 870 Wild-Cats 172 Gray Wolves 72 Lynxes 69 Wolf Pups ----- 7,971 In 1910 the total was 9,103.

The Red Squirrel. —Once in a great while, conditions change in subtle ways, wild creatures unexpectedly increase in number, and a community awakens to the fact that some wild species has become a public nuisance. In a small city park, even gray squirrels may breed and become so fearfully numerous that, in their restless. . . Read More

Community Reviews

3 stars is a good review for a book written over a century ago!!
This is great source for Hornaday quotes and visionary goodness at the beginning of the conservation "movement."
I will say, when I started listening to this audio book, I planned to only sample it; See if it was even bearable to listen