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Ranching West of the 100th Meridian: Culture, Ecology, and Economics
Contributor(s): Knight, Richard L. (Editor), Gilgert, Wendell (Editor), Marston, Ed (Editor)
ISBN: 1559638273     ISBN-13: 9781559638272
Publisher: Island Press
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Published: January 2002
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Annotation: Recommended by The Nature Conservancy magazine."Ranching West of the 100th Meridian" offers a literary and thought-provoking look at ranching and its role in the changing West. The book's lyrical and deeply felt narratives, combined with fresh information and analysis, offer a poignant and enlightening consideration of ranchers' ecological commitments to the land, their cultural commitments to American society, and the economic role ranching plays in sustainable food production and the protection of biodiversity.The book begins with writings that bring to life the culture of ranching, including the fading reality of families living and working together on their land generation after generation. The middle section offers an understanding of the ecology of ranching, from issues of overgrazing and watershed damage to the concept that grazing animals can actually help restore degraded land. The final section addresses the economics of ranching in the face of declining commodity prices and rising land values brought by the increasing suburbanization of the West. Among the contributors are Paul Starrs, Linda Hasselstrom, Bob Budd, Drummond Hadley, Mark Brunson, Wayne Elmore, Allan Savory, Luther Propst, and Bill Weeks.Livestock ranching in the West has been attacked from all sides -- by environmentalists who see cattle as a scourge upon the land, by fiscal conservatives who consider the leasing of grazing rights to be a massive federal handout program, and by developers who covet intact ranches for subdivisions and shopping centers. The authors acknowledge that, if done wrong, ranching clearly has the capacity to hurt the land. But if done right, it has the power to restore ecologicalintegrity to Western lands that have been too-long neglected. "Ranching West of the 100th Meridian" makes a unique and impassioned contribution to the ongoing debate on the future of the New West.
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BISAC Categories:
- Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection - General
- Social Science | Sociology - Rural
- Business & Economics | Industries - Agribusiness
Dewey: 636.084
LCCN: 2001006931
Physical Information: 0.72" H x 6.04" W x 8.88" (0.84 lbs) 280 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 19th Century
- Cultural Region - Western U.S.
- Demographic Orientation - Rural
- Topical - Ecology
 
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Ranching West of the 100th Meridian offers a literary and thought-provoking look at ranching and its role in the changing West. The book's lyrical and deeply felt narratives, combined with fresh information and analysis, offer a poignant and enlightening consideration of ranchers' ecological commitments to the land, their cultural commitments to American society, and the economic role ranching plays in sustainable food production and the protection of biodiversity. The book begins with writings that bring to life the culture of ranching, including the fading reality of families living and working together on their land generation after generation. The middle section offers an understanding of the ecology of ranching, from issues of overgrazing and watershed damage to the concept that grazing animals can actually help restore degraded land. The final section addresses the economics of ranching in the face of declining commodity prices and rising land values brought by the increasing suburbanization of the West. Among the contributors are Paul Starrs, Linda Hasselstrom, Bob Budd, Drummond Hadley, Mark Brunson, Wayne Elmore, Allan Savory, Luther Propst, and Bill Weeks. Livestock ranch

Contributor Bio(s): Knight, Richard L.: - Richard L. Knight is Professor of Wildlife Conservation at Colorado State University, and Co-editor of Stewardship Across Boundaries (Island Press, 1998) and A New Century for Natural Resources Management (Island Press, 1995).Marston, Ed: - Ed Marston is Publisher of High Country News.