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From the time the country was founded, early Americans assumed that the land's natural resources were infinite, including its birds, which were zealously hunted for food, game, and fashion. With the rapid extinction of the passenger pigeon--a bird once so numerous that its flocks darkened the sky in flight--many realized actions needed to be taken if other birds were to be saved. What followed was both a spiritual awakening and a great crusade to save birds and their habitat. The campaign took place on many battlefields: society teas in Boston, hunt clubs on the East Coast, the mangroves in the Everglades, and in the editorial pages of newspapers and periodicals. From many corners of the country the bird protection movement was born and brought together a remarkable coalition of people and organizations to save America's birds. The Feather Wars is an entertaining and expansive work of American history, an incredible story about how disparate characters--progressive politicians, free-thinking society belles, nature writers and artists, bird-loving United States presidents, gunmakers, business titans, and brave game wardens--came together to save hundreds of species of birds. Heroes, martyrs, villains, and conflicted do-gooders--the early bird conservation movement had them all. Together they transformed how Americans thought and cared about birds, forever altering the American landscape.

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James H. McCommons is a professor emeritus at Northern Michigan University and a veteran journalist, specializing in ecology, environmental and travel topics. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Audubon, and Discover, among other publications. He is the author of Waiting on a Train: The Embattled Future of Passenger Rail Service, and Camera Hunter: George Shiras III and the Birth of Wildlife Photography. Colin White is an actor and narrator based out of Astoria, Queens. He is classically trained and received a Conservatory Certificate in Professional Musical Theatre from Circle in the Square Theatre School in NYC. Since graduating, he has performed in various stage and film productions in New York, regionally, and internationally. Colin has been thrilled to lend his voice, love of character study, and ear for dialects to twelve titles recorded out of his professional home studio (and more out of other studios in NYC), and he can't wait to discuss producing yours! When not acting, he can frequently be found diving into a TTRPG campaign, baking up a storm, finding a new a great craft beer, desperately trying to grow tomatoes (in NYC!), or racing off on another adventure with his partner and their two balls of fluff, Ginger and Izzy.

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