Grass [[electronic resource] ] : in search of human habitat / / Joe C. Truett ; foreword by Harry W. Greene

• Autore: Truett Joe C (Joe Clyde), <1941->
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (237 p.)
• Disciplina: 578.740978
• Soggetto topico: Grassland ecology; Grasslands; Grasses
• Soggetto non controllato: anecdotes; archaeologists; biography autobiography; conservation; cowboy culture; cultural forces; environmentalists; evolution; grass; grassland ecologists; grasslands biology; grasslands; 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
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- 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 -- 15. Collateral Damage -- 16. Cowboy -- 17. Resurrection -- 18. Pleistocene Park -- 19. Diversity -- 20. Long Road Home -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Grass
• ISBN: 1-282-36109-0; 9786612361098; 0-520-94452-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778402903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Organisms and environments ; ; 11.