Record #:

2834

Author(s):

Cecelski, David

Abstract:

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, demands by hat makers for plumage and restaurants for bird meat brought near extinction to coastal flocks. Efforts by T. Gilbert Pearson and others led to conservation laws that restored the birds by World War II.

Source:

Coastwatch (NoCar QH 91 A1 N62x), Vol. Issue , Mar/Apr 1996, p20-23, il, por

Subject(s):

Birds, Protection of; Wildlife conservation--Laws and legislation; Pearson, T. Gilbert (Thomas Gilbert), 1873-1943