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"There was so much space." These words epitomize ecologist Joe Truett's boyhood memories of the Angelina River valley in East Texas. Years and miles later, back home for the funeral of his grandfather, Truett began a long meditation on the world Corbett Graham had known and he himself had glimpsed, a now-vanished world where wild hogs and countless other animals rustled through the leaves, cows ate pinewoods grass instead of corn, oaks and hickories and longleaf pines were untouched by the corporate ax, and the river flowed freely. Truett's meditation resulted in this clear-sighted po
Natural history --- Ecologists --- History, Natural --- Natural science --- Physiophilosophy --- Biology --- Science --- Biologists --- Conservationists --- Naturalists --- Scientists --- Biography. --- Truett, Joe C. --- Childhood and youth. --- Angelina River Valley (Tex.) --- Angelina Valley (Tex.)
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Part autobiography, part philosophical rumination, this evocative conservation odyssey explores the deep affinities between humans and our original habitat: grasslands. In a richly drawn, anecdotally driven narrative, Joe C. Truett, a grasslands ecologist who writes with a flair for language, traces the evolutionary, historical, and cultural forces that have reshaped North American rangelands over the past two centuries. He introduces an intriguing cast of characters-wildlife and grasslands biologists, archaeologists, ranchers, and petroleum geologists-to illuminate a wide range of related topics: our love affair with turf and how it manifests in lawns and sports, the ecological and economic dimensions of ranching, the glory of cowboy culture, grasslands and restoration ecology, and more. His book ultimately provides the background against which we can envision a new paradigm for restoring rangeland ecosystems-and a new paradigm for envisioning a more sustainable future.
Grasses. --- Grasslands. --- Grassland ecology. --- Agrostology --- Graminaceae --- Gramineae --- Grass family (Plants) --- Herbage --- Poaceae --- Cyperales --- Forage plants --- Grasslands --- Hay --- Lawns --- Meadows --- Pastures --- Grass lands --- Lands, Grass --- Grasses --- Ecology --- anecdotes. --- archaeologists. --- biography autobiography. --- conservation. --- cowboy culture. --- cultural forces. --- environmentalists. --- evolution. --- grass. --- grassland ecologists. --- grasslands biology. --- grasslands. --- historical habitats. --- human habitat. --- lawns. --- modern philosophy. --- nonfiction. --- north america. --- organisms and environments. --- petroleum geologists. --- ranchers. --- rangelands. --- restoration ecology. --- restore ecosystems. --- science majors. --- sustainability. --- textbooks. --- turf. --- wildlife biologists.
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In spite of the harsh conditions that characterize the Arctic, it is a surprisingly fragile ecosystem. The exploration for oil in the Arctic over the past 30 years has had profound effects on the plants and animals that inhabit this frozen clime. The Natural History of an Arctic Oil Field synthesizes decades of research on these myriad impacts. Specialists with years of field experience have contributed to this volume to create the first widely available synopsis of the ecology and wildlife biology of animals and plants living in close association with an actively producing oil field.
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In spite of the harsh conditions that characterize the Arctic, it is a surprisingly fragile ecosystem. The exploration for oil in the Arctic over the past 30 years has had profound effects on the plants and animals that inhabit this frozen clime. The Natural History of an Arctic Oil Field synthesizes decades of research on these myriad impacts. Specialists with years of field experience have contributed to this volume to create the first widely available synopsis of the ecology and wildlife biology of animals and plants living in close association with an actively producing oil field.
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