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Grass - In Search of Human Habitat (Hardcover)
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Grass - In Search of Human Habitat (Hardcover)
Series: Organisms and Environments, 11
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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.
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