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Zusatztext "A good researcher! facile writer! and passionate critic of agriculture." Informationen zum Autor Richard Manning is an award-winning environmental author and journalist. He has written seven books! including Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization! Food's Frontier: The Next Green Revolution! and Grassland: The Biology! Politics! and Promise of the American Prairie. Klappentext “Manning strips away layers of western myth to tell a story of bad intentions made good, good intentions gone bad, and a wild hope that has endured through decades of ecological trauma. Every word is grounded in a fierce respect for the grasslands of the Missouri Breaks and the opportunity they represent for a radical revisioning of the wild west.”—Candace Savage, author of Prairie: a Natural History “ Rewilding the West accurately and incisively sums up the interwoven story of American agriculture policies, public lands management, and conservation. Richard Manning also points toward positive possibilities in our future. Anyone interested in these matters (most of us in the West) needs to come to terms with his sometimes highly opinionated but ultimately well-reasoned arguments.”—William Kittredge, author of Who Owns the West and The Willow Field Zusammenfassung The most destructive force in the American West is its commanding views, because they foster the illusion that we command. This book presents an account of the American plains. It also describes a vision for ecological restoration that would establish a prairie preserve larger than Yellowstone National Park, flush with wild bison, elk, and wolves. Inhaltsverzeichnis ONE Vision TWO Aboriginal Sins THREE Property Was Theft FOUR Face It to Live FIVE All Hell Needs SIX Nothing Came Up That Year SEVEN Paving the Road to Hell EIGHT The Unwild West NINE Conservation's Contradiction TEN A Learned Legacy ELEVEN A Beginning Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index ...
