Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
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Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 37

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 37

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Author: James Earl Sherow
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
ISBN: 1851097201
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 389

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This unique survey of the environmental history of the grasslands in the United States explores the ecological, social, and economic networks enmeshing humans in this biome over the last 10,000 years. * 44 pages of original documents such as the Homestead Act (1862) and the Taylor Grazing Act (1934), Yellow Wolf's concerns with the disappearance of bison (1847), testimony of Kiowas as they sought to protect their reservation, to excerpts from Ron Arnold, one of the main advocates of the Wise Use Movement * Each chapter and case study comes complete with corresponding illustrations, maps, charts, or tables

Author: John L. Zimmerman
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Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 197

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An ecological portrait of an endangered wetland in Kansas.

Author: Charles K. Bayne
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 12

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Author: Joseph T. Collins
Publisher: Jtc Enterprises Incorporated
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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Author: Henry J. McFarland
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Category : Algae
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Author: David Woodhull Appel
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Category : Cheyenne Bottoms Waterfowl Refuge
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
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Author: Fritz L. Knopf
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1475727038
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 323

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The frontier images of America embrace endless horizons, majestic herds of native ungulates, and romanticized life-styles of nomadie peoples. The images were mere reflections of vertebrates living in harmony in an ecosystem driven by the unpre dictable local and regional effects of drought, frre, and grazing. Those effects, often referred to as ecological "disturbanees," are rather the driving forces on which species depended to create the spatial and temporal heterogeneity that favored ecological prerequisites for survival. Alandscape viewed by European descendants as monotony interrupted only by extremes in weather and commonly referred to as the "Great American Desert," this country was to be rushed through and cursed, a barrier that hindered access to the deep soils of the Oregon country, the rich minerals of California and Colorado, and the religious freedom sought in Utah. Those who stayed (for lack of resources or stamina) spent a century trying to moderate the ecological dynamics of Great Plains prairies by suppressing fires, planting trees and exotic grasses, poisoning rodents, diverting waters, and homogenizing the dynamies of grazing with endless fences-all creating bound an otherwise boundless vista. aries in Historically, travelers and settlers referred to the area of tallgrasses along the western edge of the deciduous forest and extending midway across Kansas as the "True Prairie. " The grasses thlnned and became shorter to the west, an area known then as the Great Plains.