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anecdotes
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Author_Joe C. Truett
biography autobiography
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Category=RNC
conservation
cowboy culture
cultural forces
environmentalists
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evolution
grass
grassland ecologists
grasslands
grasslands biology
historical habitats
human habitat
lawns
modern philosophy
nonfiction
north america
organisms and environments
petroleum geologists
ranchers
rangelands
restoration ecology
restore ecosystems
science majors
sustainability
textbooks
turf
wildlife biologists
Product details
- ISBN 9780520258396
- Weight: 499g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 03 Nov 2009
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Joe C. Truett is senior biologist with the Turner Endangered Species Fund. He is the author of Land of Bears and Honey: A Natural History of East Texas and Circling Back: Chronicle of a Texas River Valley, and coeditor of The Natural History of an Arctic Oil Field: Development and the Biota. He lives in New Mexico.
