Grass
eBook - PDF

Grass

In Search of Human Habitat

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Grass

In Search of Human Habitat

About this book

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 topics: our love affair with turf and how it manifests in lawns and sports, the ecological and economic dimensions of ranching, the glory of cowboy culture, grasslands and restoration ecology, and more. His book ultimately provides the background against which we can envision a new paradigm for restoring rangeland ecosystems—and a new paradigm for envisioning a more sustainable future.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Foreword
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Prologue
  6. 1. Promethean Legacy
  7. 2. Out of the Forest
  8. 3. Science and Faith
  9. 4. Playing God
  10. 5. Pleasing to the Eye
  11. 6. Where the Short Grass Grows
  12. 7. Turf
  13. 8. Grass and Grazers
  14. 9. Bison Plains and Prairie Dogs
  15. 10. Taming of the West
  16. 11. Production Science Comes to the Range
  17. 12. The Last Pariah
  18. 13. The Trouble with Livestock
  19. 14. Subsidizing John Wayne
  20. 15. Collateral Damage
  21. 16. Cowboy
  22. 17. Resurrection
  23. 18. Pleistocene Park
  24. 19. Diversity
  25. 20. Long Road Home
  26. Epilogue
  27. Notes
  28. References
  29. Index