Boone and Crockett is pleased to offer individual chapter PDFs of our comprehensive reference and textbook about wildlife policy and law in North America. Each chapter is available as an individual PDF download $10 each.
Here's what included with each Chapter PDF:
A basic understanding of wildlife law and policy is essential knowledge for anyone who aspires to work in wildlife management and other natural resource fields. Now, for the first time, students and professionals have all the information they need in one comprehensive volume.
1. The Need for Wildlife Conservation and Policy
2. History of Wildlife Policy and Law through Colonial Times
3. Wildlife Ownership
4. Gun Ownership
5. Jurisdiction of Federal and State Governments in the Development and Enforcement of Wildlife Law
6. Development of Federal, State, and Provincial Laws
7. The United States Constitution and Wildlife Policy
8. The Canadian Constitution and Wildlife Policy
9. Statutory Law and Agency Rulemaking
10. Enforcement of Laws and Policies
11. Relationships of Indigenous Peoples to Natural Resources
12. Use of Natural Resources for Subsistence in Alaska: Concepts, Policy, and Laws
13. The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and the Public Trust Doctrine
14. Market Hunting and the Lacey and Black Bass Acts
15. Migratory Wildlife
16. Federal Aid in Wildlife and Fisheries Conservation
17. Land Reservation and Protection: Federal Lands
18. Wildlife Protection Legislation
19. Laws and Policies for Environmental Protection
20. Private Lands Conservation Programs
21. Presidential Executive Orders
22. The Judicial System and Wildlife
23. Federal Legislative Processes for Funding Wildlife Conservation
24. Role of the Federal Government in Canada
25. Role of Provincial and Territorial Governments
26. Role of Nongovernmental Organizations in Policy Development in Canada
27. Muskrat Helped Make the World: Priority Rights of Aboriginal Peoples to Wildlife in Canada
28. Wildlife Policy and Laws in Mexico
29. Formation of Federal, State, and Provincial Agencies and Conservation Organizations
30. State Wildlife Policy in a National Environment
31. Policy and Laws Relating to Tribal Wildlife Management
32. Role of the Nonprofit Sector in Policymaking
33. Wildlife Policy and Law in Europe
34. Wildlife Policy and Laws in East Asia
35. Wildlife Policy and Laws
36. Wildlife Policy and Law in the Caribbean
37. Wildlife Policy and Law in South America
38. International Trade in Wildlife
39. The Policy Job in Conservation
40. The Role of the Public in Policy and Policymaking
41. The Wildlife Professional’s Involvement in Policy and Policymaking
42. The Politics of Wildlife and Natural Resources
The book’s extensive coverage makes it an excellent reference for anyone interested in natural resource management, public policy, or environmental law.
1. The Need for Wildlife Conservation and Policy by Robert D. Brown
"The wildlife and its habitat cannot speak. So we must and we will."
-Theodore Roosevelt