Growing Wild: Visions of Wildlife Management as Agricultural Science in American Forests and Fields
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2023
Publication Title
Agricultural History
DOI
10.1215/00021482-10337931
Abstract
Faced with dwindling wildlife populations and new regulatory regimes, some American farmers turned to game farming in the early twentieth century. Private boosters and government agencies envisioned game farming as a replacement for market hunting and as a new agricultural frontier, one that might further blur the boundaries between wild and cultivated nature. Farm and institutional infrastructures developed around such species as white-tailed deer and ring-necked pheasants, only to fade by the end of the interwar period. Game farming's lack of success ultimately stemmed from cultural, legal, and institutional challenges and epitomized the thoroughgoing separation of agricultural and wildlife sciences that firmed after World War II.
Recommended Citation
Swanson, Drew A..
2023.
"Growing Wild: Visions of Wildlife Management as Agricultural Science in American Forests and Fields."
Agricultural History, 97 (2): 177-214: Duke University Press.
doi: 10.1215/00021482-10337931
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/history-facpubs/151
Comments
"Georgia Southern University faculty member, Drew Swanson authored Growing Wild: Visions of Wildlife Management as Agricultural Science in American Forests and Fields.