
- 240 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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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 charactersâwildlife and grasslands biologists, archaeologists, ranchers, and petroleum geologistsâto 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 ecosystemsâand a new paradigm for envisioning a more sustainable future.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- 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
- 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
- Epilogue
- Notes
- References
- Index