| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 265 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Introduction: Rangelands, science, and the politics of scale -- Producing the range : extermination and fences -- Fire and climax : bureaucratic divisions of scientific labor -- Squinting at blind spots : Southwestern rangelands and the consolidation of successional theory -- Fixing stocking rates : monitoring and the politics of measurement -- To manage or manipulate : natural versus artificial improvement of depleted rangelands -- The Western range goes global : neo-malthusianism and pastoral development -- Till the cows come home : overseas failures and critiques of range science -- Conclusion: Capital, climate, and community-based conservation |
| Summary |
Rangelands are vast, making up one quarter of the United States and 40% of the Earth's ice-free land. And while contemporary science has revealed a great deal about the environmental impacts associated with intensive livestock production - from greenhouse gas emissions to land and water degradation - far less is known about the historic role science has played in rangeland management and politics. Steeped in US soil, this history of rangeland science looks to the origins of rangeland ecology in the late 19th-century American West, exploring the larger political and economic forces that - together with scientific study - produced legacies focused on immediate economic success rather than long-term ecological well being |
| Analysis |
Forest Service |
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Frederic Clements |
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capital |
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carrying capacity |
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grazing |
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pastoralism |
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ranching |
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scale |
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stocking rates |
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variability |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-251) and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed October 3, 2023) |
| Subject |
Rangelands -- United States -- History
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Range ecology -- United States
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Range ecology -- Economic aspects -- United States
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Range policy -- United States -- History
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Animal Husbandry.
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Range ecology
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Range policy
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Rangelands
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
022608339X |
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9780226083391 |
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