Wildlife management ignored suburban habitat until the late 1960s

Evidence

In the first two decades after World War II, however, Americans made very little effort to protect wildlife in rapidly suburbanizing areas of the country. The very word “wildlife” seemed to place the subject outside the ken of urban planners and developers – the metropolis was the home of civilization, not wildness. The nation’s wildlife managers and researchers similarly neglected the cities and suburbs. The first session devoted to urban problems at the annual conference of the Wildlife Management Institute was not held until 1967; the first study of the impact of suburbanization on amphibians and reptiles did not appear until 1968. The journal Urban Ecology only began publication in 1975. — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside, 838

Categorization

• XREF: The delayed recognition that wildlife belongs to metropolitan land connects to environmental history’s neglect of suburban land use noted in chapter six of this same book. — connects to: The erosion crisis migrated from farmland to suburban construction by 1965 — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside:…, 825