| Book Review | Environmental History, 12.4

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Hunters at the Margin: Native People and Wildlife Conservation in the Northwest Territories. By John Sandlos. Vancouver and Toronto: UBC Press, 2007. xxiii + 333 pages. Illustrations, notes, tables, bibliography, index. Cloth $85.00.

The decline and near-disappearance of the North American plains bison population in the second half of the nineteenth century is generally considered to be, along with the extinction of the passenger pigeon in the same era, one of the great crimes against wildlife and environment committed by newcomers to this continent. The buffalo hunters of the American plains are seen as environmental villains, as are those who wantonly shot the passenger pigeons. It would seem logical then, when it was realized that there was still a small population of wood bison in the Northwest Territories, that any attempt to protect and conserve the species must be viewed as entirely benevolent.

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