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peoples of the world are linked 
through separate but interconnect- 
ed needs to a common fate; that 
the world will survive the environ- 
mental crisis as a whole or not at 
all.” 
Unlike some environmental au- 
thorities, the author is not entirely 
pessimistic but retains some hope. 
His view is summed up by Stuart 
Chase: “Barry Commoner is not 
trying to send us back to the age 
of peasant handicraft. He is ar- 
guing for a new kind of modern 
engineer.” 
—Alvalene Barron 
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This book and ”“Man’s Domin- 
ion,” also reviewed in this is- 
sue, are two of the three 
works of the “Current Con- 
servation Pack” of I.A.S. 
books, advertised in the Octo- 
ber Newsletter. 
MAN'S DOMINION 
by Frank Graham, Jr. 
M. Evans and Co., 1971 
318 pp., $8.95 
A nutshell description of this book 
is its sub-title, “The Story of Con- 
servation in America.” The author 
is a field editor of AUDUBON. Ac- 
cording to Graham, American con- 
servation really began in the late 
1890’s and early 1900’s; since the 
predecessors of the National Audu- 
bon Society were organized dur- 
ing this period, it had to follow 
that Graham’s book is also some- 
thing of a history of state and 
national Audubon societies. There- 
fore it is appropriate that the fore- 
ward is signed by Elvis J. Stahr, 
president of National Audubon 
Society. 
Much of the author’s material 
was taken from ‘Adventures in 
Bird, Protection,” a booksby ‘Ts Gil- 
bert Pearson (1937) which is, if not 
the Audubon Bible, at least its Old 
Testament. Pearson was the organ- 
izer of an early State Audubon 
Society, for many years active in 
the National Committee of Audu- 
bon Societies (1901), its successor, 
the National Association of Audu- 
bon Societies (1905), and the Na- 
tional Audubon Society of which 
he later was president. 
Related in detail are early efforts 
to protect plume-bearing birds, in 
which Audubon societies hired 
game wardens because Federal and 
State law enforcement was weak 
or non-existent. The most famous 
of Audubon game wardens, one 
Guy Bradley, was murdered by 
Florida plume-bird poachers in the 
line of duty (1905), becoming 
probably conservation’s first mar- 
Lae 
Also told in detail are stories of 
legislation sponsored, advocated 
and often pressured into being, by 
Audubon societies and other con- 
servation groups and individuals 
that eventually saved the bearers 
of plumes and other avian milli- 
nery accessories (though admitted- 
ly aided in the process by changes 
in women’s fashions). 
Most notable project perhaps was 
the “feather fight” in Albany, New 
York (1911), memorable because it 
resulted in the landmark Audubon 
Plumage bill that virtually put the 
New York City plume-millinery 
industry, by far the nation’s larg- 
est, out of business. In this legis- 
lative battle the industry was rep- 
resented by Alfred E. Smith, later 
governor of New York and nomi- 
nee for President of the United 
States; the bill was signed by 
Charies Evans Hughes, then Gov- 
ernor, also later an unsuccessful 
presidential nominee. 
Graham’s admiration for Audu- 
bon’s good works, however, does 
not prevent his telling the sordid 
story of its “muskrat scandal” in 
the early 1930’s. Then an Audubon 
