Leo T. reviewed on 7/5/2013 + 1775 more book reviews

Excellent for use as individual chapters for collateral reading, as a book for a group of teenage readers to each choose, read, and share a chapter of their choice for discussion by the group interested in improving their reading skill, and as a book to be read on the bus. Sterba includes a good index, footnotes, and bibliography and has done the research to briefly bring together what went on in the past such as white tail deer being hunted until few remained and how they made a comeback in the 20th C. There are fewer hunters and overpopulation of many animals is now problematic. But the US Humane Society seeks to block any reduction with court action and publicity (Sterba interviews current experts, on the land and in the universities). For example there were maybe 4 million house cats in the USA after WWII but there are forty to a hundred million feral cats today, not to mention the increased numbers of pets. Sterba offers well thought out conclusions, such as the beaver made colonial settlement possible in that it brought in a small cash income. The book is easy to read.

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