| Description |
xv, 346 pages : color illustrations ; 35 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-327). |
| Contents |
In the beginning : cow / Christopher Manes -- Beef, cowboys, the West : American icons / George Wuerthner -- Land held hostage : a history of livestock and politics / Thomas L. Fleischner -- Evil in the season : the cattleman's welfare system begins / T.H. Watkins -- Pilaged preserves : livestock in national parks and wilderness areas / Andy Kerr. |
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Science of nature and the nature of science : questions of fact and value / Mollie Matteson -- Surveying the West : a summary of research on livestock impacts / Allison Jones -- Lifeblood of the West : riparian zones, biodiversity, and degradation by livestock / J. Boone Kauffman -- What the river once was : livestock destruction of waters and wetlands / Joy Belsky, Andrea Matzke, Shauna Uselman -- Cattle and streams : piecing together a story of change / Suzanne Fouty -- Stink water : declining water quality due to livestock production / John Carter. |
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Guzzling the West's water : squandering a public resource at public expense / George Wuerthner -- Soil's living surface : biological crusts / George Wuerthner -- Comrades in harm : livestock and exotic weeds in the intermountain West / Joy Belsky, Jonathan L. Gelbard -- Silent springs : threats to frog habitat from livestock production / Janice Engle -- Native snails : indicators of ecosystem health / Terrence J. Frest -- Birds and bovines : effects of ivestock grazing on birds in the West / Carl E. Bock. |
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Ranching in bear country : conflict and conservation / Brian L. Horejsi -- West without wolves : the livestock industry hamstrings wolf recovery / Michael J. Robinson -- Prairie dog gone : myth, persecution, and preservation of a keystone species / Lauren McCain, Richard P. Reading, Brian J. Miller -- Sage grouse : imperiled icon of the sagebrush sea / Randy Webb, Mark Salvo -- Where bison once roamed : the impacts of cattle and sheep on native herbivores / Bill Willers -- War against predators : the killing of wildlife funded by taxpayers / Brooks Fahy and Cheri Briggs. |
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Heavy toll : native animals harmed by livestock production -- Taking stock of public lands grazing : an economic analysis / Thomas M. Power -- Martgaging public assets : how ranchers use grazing permits as collateral / Mark Salvo -- It's what's for dinner : the health costs of meat / Virginia Kisch Messina -- Eating is an agricultural act : modern livestock agriculture from a global perspective / Richard Schwartz, Mollie Matteson -- Donut diet : the too-good-to-be-true claims of holistic management / George Wuerthner. |
| Subject |
Grazing -- Environmental aspects -- West (U.S.)
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Range management -- West (U.S.)
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Range ecology -- West (U.S.)
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Public lands -- West (U.S.) -- Management.
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| Added Author |
Wuerthner, George.
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Matteson, Mollie Yoneko.
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| ISBN |
1559639423 cloth alkaline paper |
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1559639431 paperback alkaline paper |
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