“The Codex of the Endangered Species Act; Volume I – The First Fifty Years” is the first of two volumes written by Lowell E. Baier and published during the Act’s golden anniversary year of 2023, offering interested readers the most comprehensive single-volume overview yet published of its first half-century of protecting America’s endangered and threatened animals and plants.
Not so long ago, commercial harvesting of birds and mammals was more akin to that of commercial seafood harvesting. More species were allowed to be hunted and sold into the marketplace, either for food or for the use of some part of them for some other purpose, as well as captured captured alive for various other uses.