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Author Langston, Nancy

Title Where land & water meet : a Western landscape transformed / Nancy Langston ; foreword by William Cronon
Published Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 230 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps
Series Weyerhaeuser environmental books
Weyerhaeuser environmental book.
Contents 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
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Wetland management -- Oregon -- Malheur National Wildlife Refuge
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Oregon -- Malheur National Wildlife Refuge
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / Forestry
Nature -- Effect of human beings on
Wetland management
Landwirtschaft
Natuurbeheer.
Wetlands.
SUBJECT Malheur National Wildlife Refuge (Or.) -- History
Subject Oregon -- Malheur National Wildlife Refuge
Nordamerika
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2002035784
ISBN 9780295983073
0295983078
9780295984995
0295984996
9780295989839
0295989831
Other Titles Where land and water meet