Killing Bugs for Business and Beauty

Introduction: "The natural question is what can be done to destroy them?"

1. "Airplane dusting offers the only present hope": Preparing to Take Canada's War on Forest Insects to the Sky, 1886-1926

2. "One of the first aerial applications of an insecticide in forestry": The Politics of Battling the Spruce Budworm in Nova Scotia, 1925-1927

3. "Fighting insect plagues is something new": Aerial Dusting for Industrial Forestry in Ontario and Quebec, 1928-1929

4. "For the sake of this beautiful playground": Killing the Hemlock Looper in Muskoka, 1927-1929

5. "You cannot control an infestation such as this with toys": Poisoning Forest Pests in British Columbia, 1914-1929

6. "Carrying out this work, of a protective nature": Combatting Forest Insects from the Air in Seymour Canyon and Stanley Park, British Columbia, 1929-1930

Conclusion: "We feel that the technique of airplane dusting has now been perfected": Our Enigmatic View of Nature and the Lessons to be Drawn

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• Florestas, florestas tropicais
• História económica
• Crises e desastres financeiros
• Organizações ambientalistas, conservacionistas e verdes
• Conservação do ambiente
• Deflorestação
• Pensamento e ideologia ambientalista
• Conservação da vida selvagem e do seu habitat
• Poluição e ameaças ambientais
• Insectos (entomologia)

Canadian environmental history; forest protection; Muskoka; Cape Breton Island; Stanley Park; nature; chemical insecticides; aerial bombing; entomology; forest insects; pressure politics; lobbying; environment; pesticide