Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 217 pages)
,
illustrations
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0520258398
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0520944526
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1282361090
,
9780520258396
,
9780520944527
,
9781282361096
Serie:
Organisms and environments 11
Inhalt:
Part autobiography, part philosophical rumination, this evocative conservation odyssey explores the deep affinities between humans and our original habitat: grasslands. In a richly drawn, anecdotally driven narrative, Joe C. Truett, a grasslands ecologist who writes with a flair for language, traces the evolutionary, historical, and cultural forces that have reshaped North American rangelands over the past two centuries. He introduces an intriguing cast of characters-wildlife and grasslands biologists, archaeologists, ranchers, and petroleum geologists-to illuminate a wide range of related top
Inhalt:
1. Promethean Legacy -- 2. Out of the Forest -- 3. Science and Faith -- 4. Playing God -- 5. Pleasing to the Eye -- 6. Where the Short Grass Grows -- 7. Turf -- 8. Grass and Grazers: An Ecological Primer -- 9. Bison Plains and Prairie Dogs -- 10. Taming of the West -- 11. Production Science Comes to the Range -- 12. The Last Pariah -- 13. The Trouble with Livestock -- 14. Subsidizing John Wayne -- 15. Collateral Damage -- 16. Cowboy -- 17. Resurrection -- 18. Pleistocene Park -- 19. Diversity -- 20. Long Road Home
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-209) and index
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780520258396
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0520258398
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Truett, Joe C. (Joe Clyde), 1941- Grass Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010
Sprache:
Englisch
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