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Category : Soil conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 11
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Program for the Great Plains
Author: Great Plains
Author: Ian FrazierPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466828889
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
National Bestseller Most travelers only fly over the Great Plains--but Ian Frazier, ever the intrepid and wide-eyed wanderer, is not your average traveler. A hilarious and fascinating look at the great middle of our nation. With his unique blend of intrepidity, tongue-in-cheek humor, and wide-eyed wonder, Ian Frazier takes us on a journey of more than 25,000 miles up and down and across the vast and myth-inspiring Great Plains. A travelogue, a work of scholarship, and a western adventure, Great Plains takes us from the site of Sitting Bull's cabin, to an abandoned house once terrorized by Bonnie and Clyde, to the scene of the murders chronicled in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. It is an expedition that reveals the heart of the American West.
The Great Plains Conservation Program
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Category : Great Plains Conservation Program
Languages : en
Pages : 2
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Great Plains Conservation Program
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on AgriculturePublisher:
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Category : Soil conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Great Plains
Author: Michael ForsbergPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022668167X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
The Great Plains were once among the greatest grasslands on the planet. But as the United States and Canada grew westward, the Plains were plowed up, fenced in, overgrazed, and otherwise degraded. Today, this fragmented landscape is the most endangered and least protected ecosystem in North America. But all is not lost on the prairie. Through lyrical photographs, essays, historical images, and maps, this beautifully illustrated book gets beneath the surface of the Plains, revealing the lingering wild that still survives and whose diverse natural communities, native creatures, migratory traditions, and natural systems together create one vast and extraordinary whole. Three broad geographic regions in Great Plains are covered in detail, evoked in the unforgettable and often haunting images taken by Michael Forsberg. Between the fall of 2005 and the winter of 2008, Forsberg traveled roughly 100,000 miles across 12 states and three provinces, from southern Canada to northern Mexico, to complete the photographic fieldwork for this project, underwritten by The Nature Conservancy. Complementing Forsberg’s images and firsthand accounts are essays by Great Plains scholar David Wishart and acclaimed writer Dan O’Brien. Each section of the book begins with a thorough overview by Wishart, while O’Brien—a wildlife biologist and rancher as well as a writer—uses his powerful literary voice to put the Great Plains into a human context, connecting their natural history with man’s uses and abuses. The Great Plains are a dynamic but often forgotten landscape—overlooked, undervalued, misunderstood, and in desperate need of conservation. This book helps lead the way forward, informing and inspiring readers to recognize the wild spirit and splendor of this irreplaceable part of the planet.
Great Plains Conservation Program
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Conservation and CreditPublisher:
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Category : Agricultural laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Program for the Great Plains
Author: Great Plains Conservation Program
Author: The Great Plains Conservation Program
Author: United States. Department of AgriculturePublisher:
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Category : Soil conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Program for the Great Plains
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on AgriculturePublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 15
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