Listed : dispatches from America's Endangered Species Act /
Joe Roman.
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.
- [vii], 360 p. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-346) and index.
Prologue : Boiling Spring -- In the name of the darter -- The Class of '67 -- Notes from the vortex -- The Endangered Species Act -- A handy handle -- Natural capital -- Magical thinking -- Grand experiments -- The panther's new genes -- Safe harbor -- Crying wolves -- Skating over thin ice -- Raising whales -- Questing -- The Hundred Acre Wood -- In which we upset the ethnobotanists -- Water wars -- The most beautiful sound -- The platinum blonde and the farm girl -- Epilogue : Extinction's in the house.
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