ABOUT THIS BOOK

With this book, published more than a half-century ago, Aldo Leopold created the discipline of wildlife management. Although A Sand Country Almanac is doubtless Leopold’s most popular book, Game Management may well be his most important. In this book he revolutionized the field of conservation.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Aldo Leopold was professor of wildlife management at the University of Wisconsin.

REVIEWS

"Game Management is as useful today as it was the day it came off the press."—Robert A. McCabe, University of Wisconsin–Madison

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Part I. Management Theory

I. A History of Ideas in Game Management

II. Mechanism of Game Management

III. Properties of Game Populations: Fluctuation and Density

IV. Properties of Game Populations: Movements, tolerances, and Sex and Flock Habits

V. Game Range

Part II. Management Technique

VI. Measurement of Game Populations; Game Census

VII. Measurement and Diagnosis of Productivity

VIII. Game Refuges

IX. Control of Hunting

X. Predator Control

XI. Control of Food and Water

XII. Control of Cover

XIII. Control of Disease

XIV. Accidents

XV. Miscellaneous Techniques

Part III. Game Administration

XVI. Game Economics and Esthetics

XVII. Game Policy and Administration

XVIII. Game as a Profession

Appendix

(A) Bibliography

(B) Glossary of Terms Used in Game Management

(C) Breeding Potential Tables

(D) Index

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