CanAm Lecture Series – A Borderless Continent: Rethinking the Canadian-American Borderlands from an Ecological Perspective, with Guest Lecturer Matthew Hatvany (Université Laval, Québec)
Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall, UMaine Orono, United StatesIn 1918 the Migratory Bird Conservation Act (MBCA) was enacted, creating the first nature preservation accord encompassing an entire continent. This talk, however, argues that the MBCA was essentially proscriptive in its view of nature preservation, doing little to conserve and restore nature. This “conservation problem” was recognized during the 1920s by waterfowl enthusiasts such […]
