Paul A Johnsgard

Prairie Dog Empire

A Saga of the Shortgrass Prairie

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Produktbeschreibung

Paul A. Johnsgard is Foundation Regents Professor Emeritus in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Nebraska¿Lincoln. He is the winner of the 2004 National Conservation Achievement Award and recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award, both sponsored by the National Wildlife Federation, and the author of more than five dozen books on natural history, including Sandhill and Whooping Cranes: Ancient Voices over America¿s Wetlands (available in a Bison Books edition).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9780803254879
• ISBN-10: 0803254873
• Artikelnr.: 40140746

Autorenporträt

Paul A. Johnsgard is Foundation Regents Professor Emeritus in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the winner of the 2004 National Conservation Achievement Award and recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award, both sponsored by the National Wildlife Federation, and the author of more than five dozen books on natural history, including Sandhill and Whooping Cranes: Ancient Voices over America's Wetlands (available in a Bison Books edition).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Maps
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Preface
1.       The Western Shortgrass Prairie: A Brief History
2.       A Buffalo Nation: Its Death and Rebirth
3.       Prairie Dogs and the American West: Little Towns on the Prairie
4.       Ferrets, Badgers, Bobcats, and Coyotes: Coping with Dangerous
Neighbors
5.       Free-loaders and Hangers-on: The Rewards and Dangers of City Life
6.       Other High Plains Wildlife: Born on the American Steppes
7.       The High Plains Raptors: Death Rides on Silent Wings
8.       The Varmint and Predator Wars: It's Finally Almost Quiet on the
Western Front
9.       Taming the Great American Desert: Hardscrabble Times at the
Fringes of Nowhere
10.   The USFS, BLM, and BIA: How the West was Lost
11.   The Great Plains Grassland Ecosystem: Can It Be Saved?
Appendix 1: A Guide to National Grasslands, Reservations, and Nature
Preserves on the High Plains
Appendix 2: Scientific Names of Animals in the Text
References
Index