It used to be: If you see a coyote, shoot it. Better yet, a bear.
Best of all, perhaps? A wolf. How we've gotten from there to here,
where such predators are reintroduced,protected, and in some cases
revered, is the story Frank Van Nuys tells in Varmints and Victims,
a thorough and enlightening look at the evolution of predator
management in the American West. As controversies over predator
control rage on, Varmints and Victims puts the debate into
historical context, tracing the West's relationship with
charismatic predators like grizzlies, wolves, and cougars from
unquestioned eradication to ambivalent recovery efforts. Van Nuys
offers a nuanced and balanced perspective on an often-emotional
topic, exploring the intricacies of how and why attitudes toward
predators have changed over the years. Focusing primarily on
wolves, coyotes, mountain lions, and grizzly bears, he charts the
logic and methods of management practiced by ranchers, hunters, and
federal officials Broad in scope and rich in detail, this work
brings new, much-needed clarity to the complex interweaving of
economics, politics, science, and culture in the formulation of
ideas about predator species, and in policies directed at these
creatures. In the process, we come to see how the story of predator
control is in many ways the story of the American West itself, from
early attempts to connect the frontier region to mainstream
American life and economics to present ideas about the nature and
singularity of the region.
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