Curtis H Freese

Back from the Collapse

American Prairie and the Restoration of Great Plains Wildlife

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Produktbeschreibung

Back from the Collapse covers the evolution, Euro-American-driven collapse, and large-scale restoration of Great Plains wildlife through efforts by the nonprofit organization American Prairie to assemble a protected area of 3.2 million acres on the plains of northeast Montana.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 520g
• ISBN-13: 9781496231321
• ISBN-10: 1496231325
• Artikelnr.: 65949040

Autorenporträt

Curtis H. Freese, an ecologist, is cofounder of American Prairie and founding managing director of World Wildlife Fund’s Northern Great Plains Program. He formerly ran the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Latin America program and was World Wildlife Fund’s vice president for conservation programs in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. He is the author or editor of four books, including American Bison: Status Survey and Conservation Guidelines.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
List of Maps
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction
 
Part 1: History
Chapter 1: How It Started
Chapter 2: From Sea, Ice, and Forest Emerges a Prairie
Chapter 3: From the End of One Faunal Collapse to the Dawn of Another
Chapter 4: From Euro-American Settlement to Today
 
Part 2: Wildlife Collapses and Recoveries
Chapter 5: American Beaver and River Otter
Chapter 6: Ungulates
Chapter 7: Carnivores
Chapter 8: Rocky Mountain Locust
Chapter 9: Black-tailed Prairie Dog and Black-footed Ferret
Chapter 10: Pallid Sturgeon and Other Fish Stories
Chapter 11: Grassland Birds
 
Part 3: Conclusion
Chapter 12: Where We’ve Been and Where We Need to Go
Notes
Bibliography
Index