Rifle In Hand - How Wild America was Saved

by Jim Posewitz

Overview

Rifle in Hand tells the greatest conservation story in history: why and how hunters saved wildlife and wild lands in North America. Beginning with the greatest hunter-conservationist of all, Theodore Roosevelt, and including conservation giants George Bird Grinnell, D'ing Darling, Aldo Leopold,and
others, 20th-century hunters overcame market hunting, environmental destruction, financial barriers, and political opposition to restore wildlife to today's astonishing abundance. All along, Roosevelt and his fellow hunters were guided by two uniquely North American principles: wildlife belongs to all the people, and all the people should have the opportunity to hunt. Rifle in Hand urges hunters to reaffirm these democratic principles and follow Roosevelt's leadership.By doing so, today's hunters can pass on to future generations this great legacy of public wildlife and public hunting.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014633611
Publisher:	Orion-The Hunters' Institute
Publication date:	06/26/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	112
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Jim Posewitz arrived in Montana in 1953 to pursue fish and wildlife management studies. After graduation from Montana State University he spent 32 years with the Montana Dept. of Fish, Wildlife and Parks, leading the agency's ecological program for 15 years. In 1993 Jim founded Orion The Hunter's Institute, a conservation nonprofit dedicated to the preservation of ethical hunting and wild resources essential to that purpose. Jim has published four books: Beyond Fair Chase; Inherit The Hunt; Rifle in Hand - How Wild America was Saved; and his latest, Taking a Bullet for Conservation. In addition, Jim served as executive director of the Cinnabar Foundation, a conservation philanthropy, since its inception in 1983 through May of 2010. Jim has pursued an intense interest in the essence of the hunt and the history of the hunter-conservationist. In the process he served as adjunct professor of history and philosophy at Montana State University. Through the years numerous groups have recognized Jim for his work.