American wildlife biologists first began fitting animals with
radio transmitters in the 1950s. By the 1980s the practice had
proven so useful to scientists and nonscientists alike that it
became global. "Wired Wilderness" is the first book-length study of
the origin, evolution, use, and impact of these now-commonplace
tracking technologies.
Combining approaches from environmental history, the history of
science and technology, animal studies, and the cultural and
political history of the United States, Etienne Benson traces the
radio tracking of wild animals across a wide range of institutions,
regions, and species and in a variety of contexts. He explains how
hunters, animal-rights activists, and other conservation-minded
groups gradually turned tagging from a tool for control into a
conduit for connection with wildlife. Drawing on extensive archival
research, interviews with wildlife biologists and engineers, and
in-depth case studies of specific conservation issues--such as the
management of deer, grouse, and other game animals in the upper
Midwest and the conservation of tigers and rhinoceroses in
Nepal--Benson illuminates telemetry's context-dependent uses and
meanings as well as commonalities among tagging practices.
"Wired Wilderness" traces the evolution of the modern wildlife
biologist's field practices and shows how the intense interest of
nonscientists at once constrained and benefited the field. Scholars
of and researchers involved in wildlife management will find this
history both fascinating and revealing.
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