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Ecology and Conservation of Great Plains Vertebrates (Hardcover, 1997 ed.)
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Ecology and Conservation of Great Plains Vertebrates (Hardcover, 1997 ed.)
Series: Ecological Studies, 125
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The frontier images of America embrace endless horizons, majestic
herds of native ungulates, and romanticized life-styles of nomadie
peoples. The images were mere reflections of vertebrates living in
harmony in an ecosystem driven by the unpre dictable local and
regional effects of drought, frre, and grazing. Those effects,
often referred to as ecological "disturbanees," are rather the
driving forces on which species depended to create the spatial and
temporal heterogeneity that favored ecological prerequisites for
survival. Alandscape viewed by European descendants as monotony
interrupted only by extremes in weather and commonly referred to as
the "Great American Desert," this country was to be rushed through
and cursed, a barrier that hindered access to the deep soils of the
Oregon country, the rich minerals of California and Colorado, and
the religious freedom sought in Utah. Those who stayed (for lack of
resources or stamina) spent a century trying to moderate the
ecological dynamics of Great Plains prairies by suppressing fires,
planting trees and exotic grasses, poisoning rodents, diverting
waters, and homogenizing the dynamies of grazing with endless
fences-all creating bound an otherwise boundless vista. aries in
Historically, travelers and settlers referred to the area of
tallgrasses along the western edge of the deciduous forest and
extending midway across Kansas as the "True Prairie. " The grasses
thlnned and became shorter to the west, an area known then as the
Great Plains."
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