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