Cottam -- decades later |
Clarence Cottam
Cottam was a colleague and friend of Carson from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. He had written about the deleterious effects of pesticides as early as 1946. Carson cited Cottam's work in Chap. 10 of Silent Spring. She consulted him in 1959 about the nature of her writing project. Cottam was awarded the Audubon Medal in 1961 for his "achievement in the field of conservation and environmental protection." He served on the NRC committee on Pest Control and Wildlife Relationships.
Be sure to review Chaps. 1-2,7-10,15 in Silent Spring. You should be able to comment on Carson's credibility, harm to non-target species and indiscriminate use.
Bibliography
(?) Cottam, Clarence. 1962. "Silent Spring: An Appraisal." National Parks Magazine, 48. 4 pp. or Cottam, Clarence. 1963." A Noisy Re-action to Silent Spring." Sierra Club Bull. No. 48. 4 pp.
Cottam, Clarence, and Elmer Higgins. 1946. "DDT and its Effect on Fish and Wildlife." Journal of Economic Entomology . Also published as U.S. Dept. of Interior Circular 11. Washington: GPO (1946).
Cottam, Clarence. 1959. "The Uncontrolled Use of Pesicides in the Southeast." (Address to the Southeastern Assn. of Fish, Game and Conservations Commissioners).
Cottam, Clarence. 1965. "The Ecologists' Role in Problems of Pesticide Pollution." BioScience 15(7, July): 457-463.
National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Pest Control and Wildlife Relationships. Pest Control and Wildlife Relationships. Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council (Pub. #920-A, B, C), 1962-63.
biographical info: Bolen, Eric G. "In Memoriam: Clarence Cottam". Auk 92(1):118-125.
biographical info: Williams, Lauren. "Clarence Cottam." The Handbook of Texas Online. www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/CC/fcoav.html [Nov. 12, 2006].
Graham, Since Silent Spring
Brooks, Paul 1972. The House of Life: Rachel Carson at Work. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, pp. 247-251.
Lear, Linda. Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature. New York: Henry Holt, 1997, pp. 401-407.
Throup, "Clarence Cottam," 180-225 [citation incomplete]
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