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Crimes against Nature reveals the hidden history behind three of the nation's first parklands: the Adirondacks, Yellowstone, and the Grand Canyon. Focusing on conservation's impact on local inhabitants, Karl Jacoby traces the effect of criminalizing such traditional practices as hunting, fishing, foraging, and timber cutting in the newly created parks. Jacoby reassesses the nature of these "crimes" and provides a rich portrait of rural people and their relationship with the natural world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

National parks and reserves --- Nature conservation --- Conservation of nature --- Nature --- Nature protection --- Protection of nature --- Conservation of natural resources --- Applied ecology --- Conservation biology --- Endangered ecosystems --- Natural areas --- National reserves --- Parks, National --- Reserves, National --- Parks --- Protected areas --- Public lands --- Forest reserves --- Military reservations --- National protected areas systems --- Social aspects --- History. --- Conservation --- 19th century american history. --- 20th century american history. --- adirondacks. --- american conservation. --- american history. --- american west. --- conservation. --- conservationists. --- crimes against nature. --- environmental history. --- fishing. --- foraging. --- grand canyon. --- history. --- hunting. --- john muir. --- local inhabitants. --- national parks. --- natural resources. --- natural world. --- nature. --- parklands. --- poachers. --- poverty. --- president roosevelt. --- rural people. --- squatters. --- teddy roosevelt. --- theodore roosevelt. --- thieves. --- timber cutting. --- united states of america. --- yellowstone.