Nature Wars: Jim Sterba

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Jim Sterba talks about his book Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds  in which he examines the last five hundred years of wildlife plundering, deforestation, conservation and suburban sprawl along with our “denatured” life have led to unmanageable wildlife populations including the deer plaguing our region.

I reviewed Sterba’s book for the East Hampton Star (January 23, 2014) because I believe the proliferating wildlife population is not only a local but a regional and national manifestation of our uneasy relationship to the natural world.

Today, these words sound rather naive, reflecting my simplistic understanding four or more years ago.  I don’t think I was alone.  Since then, life among unmanageable wild life populations has become an increasingly familiar  experience although solutions are still not widely shared, accepted or implemented.

(First broadcast on WPKN on January 29, 2014)

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  1. Thank you. Really enjoyed it. He covered such a terrifically broad perspective bringing it into a clear vision.
    Especially interesting is the judgment of good versus bad wild animals.

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Born to German Jewish refugee physicians in Lahore (now Pakistan, then British India) Hazel has lived, studied and worked in many places–India, England, Australia, Israel and the United States. She makes her home in the woods of the eastern end of Long Island, New York where she produces the art of leafages, the radio sounds of Tidings and writes about growing up Jewish in Lahore. Read more about Hazel…

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