Karl Jacoby Crimes Against Nature

In Crimes Against Nature, Jacoby argues that the history of the Conservation Movement has two sides. One of Jacoby ultimate goals for this study is to help erase the current boundaries between social and environmental history. Jacoby believes the United States needs a social history that is attuned to rural life and the ecological relationships that shape and sustain it. According to the article, Crimes Against Nature by Karl Jacoby: Social History of People in the Environment, written by Dan Allosso, Jacoby uncovered the dark side of conservation and tends to portray these conflicts as large-scale, a national argument between conservationist and their opponents. After reading the novel and taking the time to review the book, Jacoby did convince …show more content…
Jacoby launched an important discussion about the need to incorporate local people into narratives about conservation. By including the voices of the people who were directly affected by conservation policies, they have raised questions about the role of social justice in environmental protection initiatives. If Jacoby did not use the voice of the people who were affected by creating these parks, his argument would have not been supported and would have made the reader not support his main goal. Jacoby wants us to think more deeply about the inherent tension between state legislated systems of environmental control and social justice. Crimes Against Nature gives the reader to many compelling stories about poachers and wardens, backwoods juries and frustrated prosecutors, Indians, and park rangers. According to Henry Wiencek, in the article on the website Not Even Past, Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation, Jacoby concludes that both sides of the Conservation movement embodied distinct, but complementary, American