Unrestricted market hunting nearly extirpated the upland plover from Wisconsin farms
Evidence
There was a time in the early 1900’s when Wisconsin farms nearly lost their immemorial timepiece, when May pastures greened in silence, and August nights brought no whistled reminder of impending fall. Universal gunpowder, plus the lure of plover-on-toast for post-Victorian banquets, had taken too great a toll. The belated protection of the federal migratory bird laws came just in time. — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 137
Categorization
- SEED: The ‘immemorial timepiece’ framing — seasonal bird presence as the farm’s clock, nearly silenced by gourmet cuisine — feeds the observation-as-reading-phenology thread of the polyad.
- XREF: connects to: Erosion and drainage threaten plover habitat, foreshadowing human harm from the same — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 136; Migrating geese alter their routes and habits according to local hunting laws — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 84; Immediate dependence on local habitat once made conservation self-interested — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2527 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- The commodity mindset of canneries and dams drove Pacific salmon near extinction
#exemplifies(0.80) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 893 - The 1970 Wisconsin math building bombing marked the self-destructive climax of sixties radicalism
#exemplifies(0.78) — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited, 1097 - Immediate dependence on local habitat once made conservation self-interested
#complicates(0.72) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2527