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Book SynopsisExplores affinities between humans and our original habitat - grasslands. This title introduces an intriguing cast of characters 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, grasslands and restoration ecology, and more.
Trade Review"Recommended." Choice "Can be read with ease and interest." Environment And Ecology "Impassioned, informative, and entertaining." Conservation Magazine "Nonjudgmental, questioning, provocative, and written with an appreciation of human's increasing dominance of our finite home planet." Qtly Review Of Biology
Table of ContentsForeword 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 1.Truett, Grass 5/29/09 2:49 PM Page vii 15. Collateral Damage 16. Cowboy 17. Resurrection 18. Pleistocene Park 19. Diversity 20. Long Road Home Epilogue Notes References
