Grass : in search of human habitat / Joe C. Truett ; foreword by Harry W. Greene.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Truett, Joe C. (Joe Clyde), 1941-

Series:

Organisms and environments ; 11.

Organisms and Environments ; 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grassland ecology.

Grasslands.

Grasses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 p.)

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

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: 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

Epilogue

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9786612361098

9781282361096

1282361090

9780520944527

0520944526

OCLC:

559016244