| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.1

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Book Review

The Dawn of Conservation Diplomacy: U.S.-Canadian Wildlife Protection Treaties in the Progressive Era. By Kurkpatrick Dorsey. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998. xvi, 311 pp. $35.00, isbn 0-295-97676-4.)

Fish do not command much popular support or sympathy among North American conservationists; mammals and birds do, however. Kurkpartick Dorsey's three-part book about the origins of North American treaties and accords for wildlife conservation explains why fishery interests in the Great Lakes failed to garner immediate political support at the turn of the twentieth century, though later they established longer-term cooperation between the United States and Canada. Dorsey turns to agreements over fur seal harvesting, including more humane methods of culling, especially influenced by the proselytizing of William T. Hornaday, and the threats made to the viability of overall pinniped populations over a period of thirty years at the turn of the 1900s. . . .

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