From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1996:

The Great Antler Auction
by Susan E. Goodman, with photos by
Michael J. Doolittle.
Atheneum Books (1230 Avenue of the Americas,
New York, NY 10020), 1996.
40 pages, $16.00, hardcover.

Apparently aimed at the school library market, containing
more facts and figures than story line, The Great
Antler Auction describes how the Boy Scouts of Jackson’s
Hole, Wyoming, have since 1968 maintained a monopoly on
collecting the antlers shed each year by the 7,500 elk within
the 25,000-acre National Elk Refuge. The Scouts sell the
antlers at auction, then use the proceeds to feed the elk over
the winter. The herd has predictably grown well beyond the
winter carrying capacity of the refuge. The conclusion asks
whether the Scouts should let elk starve, or encourage more

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1996:

The Good Year
by Era Zistel
J.B. Townsend (12 Greenleaf Drive,
Exeter, NH 03833), 1959, reissued 1996.
206 pages, paperback, $15.00.

Thirty-seven years after Zistel wrote
The Good Year, more readers than ever will
identify with her poignant chapters on hunting.
The wounded raccoon central to the story survives
and gets through one hunting season––but
just as attachment seems safe, Man the Enemy
defeats Human the Rescuer and Nurturer.
Zistel’s characterization of the incorrigibly
ignorant and cruel is almost unbearably accurate.

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