Foreword. On the margins / William Cronon -- Introduction -- Ranchers in the Malheur Lake Basin -- Conflicts between ranchers and homesteaders -- Buying the Blitzen -- Managing ducks -- Grazing, floods, and fish -- Pragmatic adaptive management
Summary
A new paperback edition of an intriguing and naunced book that explores the ways people have used and altered the boundaries between water and land
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-218) and index