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Charles Scribner's Sons, Published 1949. Hardcover, xviii, 365 pp.; 24 cm; First Edition ("A" on copyright page); map frontispiece, plates of black-and-white photographs, line drawings.
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In Good condition, no dust jacket. Green cloth boards, gilt lettering and gilt-and-orange rules on spine; mild shelf and edge wear, light scuffing and scratches to boards, bumping to corners with some color loss and tiny nicks at corner tips and at head and tail of spine; discoloration near foot of spine where a label has been removed. Binding tight. Ex-institutional: American Forestry Association (Washington, D.C.) address stamp on front free endpaper and on rear free endpaper, the latter with "639" in ink; accession number "002931" stamped on copyright page. Mild soiling and toning to endpapers; pages mildly toned, otherwise unmarked. Early book on scientific wildlife management by Wallace Byron Grange (1905-1987), Wisconsin's first superintendent of game and later a researcher for the U.S. Biological Survey, written for hunters and landowners, not specialists. Grange draws on his long field study of snowshoe rabbit cycles in central Wisconsin to explain population cycles through plant and animal succession, then gives practical chapters on controlled burning for game, forest cutting, food strips and winter feeding, grazing, aquatic habitats, refuges, restocking, predator control, and incentive legislation for private game management. Acknowledgments credit Herbert L. Stoddard, Aldo Leopold, Paul L. Errington and the Hamerstroms, among others. Illustrated with the author's photographic succession series of jackpine and aspen tracts and wildlife photographs from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Contents: Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I, The Pattern of Life; Part II, Plant and Animal Successions; Part III, Population Cycles; Part IV, The Technology of Game Increase; In Conclusion; Index.