TY - BOOK AU - Wild,Dennis TI - The double-crested cormorant: symbol of ecological conflict SN - 9780472117635 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - QL696.P4745 W55 2012 U1 - 598.4/3 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Ann Arbor PB - University of Michigan Press KW - Double-crested cormorant KW - North America KW - Economic aspects KW - Bird pests KW - Human-animal relationships N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Assault on Little Galloo Island : an act of desperation -- From mysterious rescuer to a partner to a fowl curse -- Flight : when a dinosaur looked down upon gravity -- A time to sink and swim -- The face of extinction : eggshells versus DDT -- Champlain, Native peoples, and Henderson Harbor -- Fishing America's "fifth coast" -- Ashmole's halo : a righteous model of what should have happened -- Little Galloo Island revisited : praise and outrage -- Treaties and legislation : war of the wilderness -- Agencies and wildlife conservation at work : cormorants in a vise -- Catfish on a shoestring : a primer -- The annual battle of the ponds -- Fortune, timelines, and their intersections : when worlds collide -- Concessions and conclusions ER -