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Welfare Ranching

Author : George Wuerthner
Publisher : Foundations for Deep Ecology 2
ISBN 13 : 9781559639439
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Welfare Ranching written by George Wuerthner and published by Foundations for Deep Ecology 2. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book shows the real West, not the one seen in postcards or imagined from romantic movies and novels. With photographs and essays, it shows not only the most shocking cases of overgrazing, but also the subtle changes that signal ecological disruption on a massive scale. Welfare Ranching explains the cultural and historical causes of the wasting of the West and offers a vision of the renewal that is possible if citizens are willing to demand that their government shift land management priorities to serving the public and natural good, rather than facilitating private gain. Ultimately, this book points the way to the greatest opportunity yet remaining for ecological restoration and wildlife protection in this country."--BOOK JACKET.

Take the Rich Off Welfare

Author : Mark Zepezauer
Publisher : South End Press
ISBN 13 : 9780896087064
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Take the Rich Off Welfare written by Mark Zepezauer and published by South End Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the first version of this book came out in 1996, on the heels of "Welfare Reform," it was received with great popular acclaim. As Jim Hightower put it, "At last, the real welfare scandal [is] revealed in one handy little -volume." But the scandal was still in the making. The total amount of taxpayers' money going to subsidize corporations and rich individuals has grown from about $448 billion to over $800 billion--and the amount of that tax money that comes from those flush companies and individuals continues to shrink. In this greatly expanded and updated version of Take the Rich off Welfare, Mark Zepezauer still details who's on the government dole and how much they're getting. This time around, though, he has slowed down his rapid firing of the latest names and numbers in order to reveal how it all works. Using accessible language and revealing graphics, he takes the time to explain how programs once intended to profit the public have been warped to benefit only the corporate bottom line; how administrations manipulate the tax code to slide their extortion from the bottom half past congressional oversight; and how the politicians from both parties employ budget doubletalk and paper trickery to make it look as if the economy isn't being sucked further into a sinkhole in order to line the pockets of the few. A prolific writer of humorous but cutting analyses of government policy and its fallout, Zepezauer provides us with the tools we need to expose the political chicanery of current and past administrations, and make it much more difficult for politicians to play Three Card Monte with our money and our future. To the rallying cry of fiscal conservatives who claim that government must shrink, Zepezauer offers an easy answer. Shrink you. Mark Zepezauer has worked as a journalist, editor and publisher since 1985. His articles, columns and reviews have appeared in the Village Voice, In These Times and the Arizona Daily Star. Zepezauer also wrote two Real Story books (now published by South End Press): The CIA's Greatest Hits (1994) and the first version of Take the Rich Off Welfare (1996), which have sold over 25,000 and 22,000 copies respec

Welfare Ranching

Author : George Wuerthner
Publisher : Foundations for Deep Ecology 2
ISBN 13 : 9781559639422
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (394 download)

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Equine Welfare

Author : C. Wayne McIlwraith
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444397818
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book Equine Welfare written by C. Wayne McIlwraith and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-02-02 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rational exploration of the ethical and welfare issues in all areas of equine use. This book addresses controversial and emotive issues surrounding these iconic creatures, providing a reliable source of information to support informed debate. It will enable all those with an interest in horses and the uses they are put to gain an awareness of the problems and abuses that occur. The book draws on the expertise of a range of acknowledged leaders in equine health and welfare. The first part of the book explores general issues of the horse’s needs and nature. The second part contains chapters each covering a specific human use of horses and the abuses that arise as a result. This book is part of the UFAW/Wiley-Blackwell Animal Welfare Book Series. This major series of books produced in collaboration between UFAW (The Universities Federation for Animal Welfare), and Wiley-Blackwell provides an authoritative source of information on worldwide developments, current thinking and best practice in the field of animal welfare science and technology. For details of all of the titles in the series see www.wiley.com/go/ufaw.

The New Ranch Owner's Guide

Author : Barrett Williams
Publisher : Barrett Williams
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Ranch Owner's Guide written by Barrett Williams and published by Barrett Williams. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the quintessential roadmap to transforming your calling into a thriving 10-acre ranch with "The New Ranch Owner's Guide." Crafted for the aspiring ranch owner, this comprehensive eBook is your proverbial fence-post to hang your hat on – a complete guide that doesn't just skim the surface but dives into the rich soil of ranch ownership. Embark on a journey starting with "Setting the Stage for Your 10-Acre Ranch," where you'll uncover your land's hidden potential and draft the blueprints for your agricultural aspirations. Next, traverse through the maze of "Zoning and Legal Requirements," ensuring your dream is not only robust but also regulation-compliant. Building your empire necessitates insight and "Infrastructure and Equipment Essentials" deliver just that. With practical advice on construction and investment, watch your ranch foundations set as solidly as the convictions that drive you. Then hone your attention to the heartbeat of any ranch – the land. The chapters on "Soil Health," "Water Resources," and "Land Management" equip you with sustainable tactics, making you the custodian of a land legacy. "The New Ranch Owner's Guide" is not just about the ground beneath your feet or the roofs over your head; it's about the life that animates your land. From "Selecting Livestock" and "Pasture Management" to "Raising Poultry," your journey is anchored in the intricacies of nurturing a resilient and productive ecosystem. As the seasons change, so must your strategies. The seasonal cycle of activities laid out in the "Seasonal Ranch Checklist" keeps you proactively engaged, ensuring your ranch thrives rain or shine. And with "Marketing and Selling Your Products," transform your toil into profit, linking farm to table in the most innovative ways. However, a ranch is more than crops and cattle; it's about community and continuity. Learn how to sow the seeds of "Community Involvement" and chart a course for the future with "Succession Planning." In facing the unpredictable, "Dealing with Challenges and Setbacks" offers solace and solutions ensuring that your spirit weathers every storm. The visions of sustainability and stewardship in "Innovations in Small-Scale Ranching" and "Ethics and Welfare in Ranching" will be your compass to a fulfilling ranch stewardship. Finally, relish the personal anecdotes of those who've walked this path in the "Case Studies of Successful 10-Acre Ranches," providing real-world examples that inspire and guide. Enter the gates of "The New Ranch Owner's Guide," where every chapter is a stepping stone to self-sufficiency and the realization of your pastoral dreams. Welcome to the first day of your life as a ranch owner – may it be as boundless and fruitful as the land you're about to shape.

Thinking Continental

Author : Tom Lynch
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496202813
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Thinking Continental written by Tom Lynch and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to the growing scale and complexity of environmental threats, this volume collects articles, essays, personal narratives, and poems by more than forty authors in conversation about "thinking continental"--connecting local and personal landscapes to universal systems and processes--to articulate the concept of a global or planetary citizenship. Reckoning with the larger matrix of biome, region, continent, hemisphere, ocean, and planet has become necessary as environmental challenges require the insights not only of scientists but also of poets, humanists, and social scientists. Thinking Continental braids together abstract approaches with strands of more-personal narrative and poetry, showing how our imaginations can encompass the planetary while also being true to our own concrete life experiences in the here and now.

To Think Like a Mountain

Author : Niels Sparre Nokkentved
Publisher : Washington State University Press
ISBN 13 : 1636820662
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book To Think Like a Mountain written by Niels Sparre Nokkentved and published by Washington State University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the West, shortsighted human self-interest has resulted in devastating environmental losses. The fur trade decimated beaver populations, and streams and wetland ecosystems deteriorated. Though most mining ceased by the late 1920s, water running from the Pacific Mine nearly a century later still carried ten times the lead level standard set by the federal Clean Water Act. Where grazing depleted native bunchgrasses, fire-prone cheatgrass grew in its place. Migrating from Idaho streams, salmon once reached the ocean in ten to fourteen days. Now it takes fifty or more. In 2016, a snowstorm blew a flock of snow geese off course. They landed on contaminated water, and about three thousand died. Author Niels S. Nokkentved takes a fresh look at environmental challenges affecting Northwest residents. His essays examine cultural conflicts over resource extraction, threats to watersheds from abandoned mines, wolf recovery in the northern Rocky Mountains, the lingering effects of livestock grazing on western rangelands, and the rapidly disappearing sage grouse. They discuss the importance of forest fires, the value of beavers, the failed promises of salmon hatcheries, the reasons behind the decline of the timber industry in the Pacific Northwest, and how unlikely allies learned to set aside their differences in order to resolve long-standing disputes. Nokkentved’s goal is to encourage people to think like a mountain--in other words, to consider the long-term consequences. He shares his connection to each concern as well as his own evidence-based perspective. He believes that it most profits society--collectively and as individuals--when people respect the balance of nature, and he wants to draw others to the same conclusion.

Waste of the West

Author : Lynn B. Jacobs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Waste of the West written by Lynn B. Jacobs and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PUBLIC LANDS RANCHING: Is it a harmless, romantic, remnant of the Old West? Or is it the rural West's most destructive influence? Controversy rages & continues to spread. Some are saying this will be the next major environmental struggle in the Western United States. WASTE OF THE WEST is-- & probably will remain--the most complete account of public lands ranching ever assembled. With easy-reading text & more than 1000 photos, drawings, cartoons, graphs, & charts on 600 (8 1/2" x 11") pages, Lynn Jacobs explores every facet of this obscure yet vitally important issue. Chapters: introduce public lands ranching & describe its historic & present situations; detail its economic ("welfare ranching"), political, social/cultural, & (especially) environmental impacts; discuss livestock abuse; take a global livestock-production tour; discredit the many excuses stockmen use to justify their 100-year reign over the rural West; predict the future; present alternatives; & provide many ideas on what people can do to help end this destructive & unjust situation. Final pages offer ideas for activism, contacts, public lands ranching statistics, inspirational quotations, a 500-source bibliography, & a thorough index. WASTE OF THE WEST is for people who care about Nature. As much as an eye-opening educational tool, it is a call to action.

This Land

Author : Christopher Ketcham
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735220999
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book This Land written by Christopher Ketcham and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A big, bold book about public lands . . . The Desert Solitaire of our time.” —Outside A hard-hitting look at the battle now raging over the fate of the public lands in the American West--and a plea for the protection of these last wild places The public lands of the western United States comprise some 450 million acres of grassland, steppe land, canyons, forests, and mountains. It's an American commons, and it is under assault as never before. Journalist Christopher Ketcham has been documenting the confluence of commercial exploitation and governmental misconduct in this region for over a decade. His revelatory book takes the reader on a journey across these last wild places, to see how capitalism is killing our great commons. Ketcham begins in Utah, revealing the environmental destruction caused by unregulated public lands livestock grazing, and exposing rampant malfeasance in the federal land management agencies, who have been compromised by the profit-driven livestock and energy interests they are supposed to regulate. He then turns to the broad effects of those corrupt politics on wildlife. He tracks the Department of Interior's failure to implement and enforce the Endangered Species Act--including its stark betrayal of protections for the grizzly bear and the sage grouse--and investigates the destructive behavior of U.S. Wildlife Services in their shocking mass slaughter of animals that threaten the livestock industry. Along the way, Ketcham talks with ecologists, biologists, botanists, former government employees, whistleblowers, grassroots environmentalists and other citizens who are fighting to protect the public domain for future generations. This Land is a colorful muckraking journey--part Edward Abbey, part Upton Sinclair--exposing the rot in American politics that is rapidly leading to the sell-out of our national heritage. The book ends with Ketcham's vision of ecological restoration for the American West: freeing the trampled, denuded ecosystems from the effects of grazing, enforcing the laws already in place to defend biodiversity, allowing the native species of the West to recover under a fully implemented Endangered Species Act, and establishing vast stretches of public land where there will be no development at all, not even for recreation.

A Place for Dialogue

Author : Sharon McKenzie Stevens
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587297655
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book A Place for Dialogue written by Sharon McKenzie Stevens and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Place for Dialogue, Sharon McKenzie Stevens views the contradictions and collaborations involved in the management of public land in southern Arizona—and by extension the entire arid West—through the lens of political rhetoric. Revealing the socioecological relationships among cattlemen and environmentalists as well as developers and recreationists, she analyzes the ways that language shapes landscape by shaping decisions about land use. Stevens focuses on the collaborative Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan initiated by Pima County, Arizona, the ubiquitous use of scientific argument to defend contradictory practices, and the construction and negotiation of rancher/environmentalist identities to illuminate both literally and metaphorically the dynamics of land use politics. Drawing specifically upon extensive interviews with a diverse array of agents on all sides of the debate—ranchers, environmentalists, scientists, land managers, government officials—on historical narratives, and on her own conflicting experiences as someone who grew up with those who work the western lands, she demonstrates that it is possible to use differences to solve, rather than to aggravate, the entrenched problems that bridge land and language. By integrating her richly textured case study of a fragile region with rhetorical approaches to narrative, science-based argument, and collective identities, Stevens makes a significant contribution to the fields of rhetoric, land management, and cultural studies.

Just Food

Author : James E. McWilliams
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316052639
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Just Food written by James E. McWilliams and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2009-08-26 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We suffer today from food anxiety, bombarded as we are with confusing messages about how to eat an ethical diet. Should we eat locally? Is organic really better for the environment? Can genetically modified foods be good for you? Just Food does for fresh food what Fast Food Nation did for fast food, challenging conventional views, and cutting through layers of myth and misinformation. For instance, an imported tomato is more energy-efficient than a local greenhouse-grown tomato. And farm-raised freshwater fish may soon be the most sustainable source of protein. Informative and surprising, Just Food tells us how to decide what to eat, and how our choices can help save the planet and feed the world.

The Woolly West

Author : Andrew Gulliford
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623496535
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (234 download)

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Download or read book The Woolly West written by Andrew Gulliford and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-13 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2019 National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum Western Heritage Award for the Best Nonfiction Book Winner, 2019 Colorado Book Awards History Category, sponsored by Colorado Center for the Book In The Woolly West, historian Andrew Gulliford describes the sheep industry’s place in the history of Colorado and the American West. Tales of cowboys and cattlemen dominate western history—and even more so in popular culture. But in the competition for grazing lands, the sheep industry was as integral to the history of the American West as any trail drive. With vivid, elegant, and reflective prose, Gulliford explores the origins of sheep grazing in the region, the often-violent conflicts between the sheep and cattle industries, the creation of national forests, and ultimately the segmenting of grazing allotments with the passage of the Taylor Grazing Act of 1934. Deeper into the twentieth century, Gulliford grapples with the challenges of ecological change and the politics of immigrant labor. And in the present day, as the public lands of the West are increasingly used for recreation, conflicts between hikers and dogs guarding flocks are again putting the sheep industry on the defensive. Between each chapter, Gulliford weaves an account of his personal interaction with what he calls the “sheepscape”—that is, the sheepherders’ landscape itself. Here he visits with Peruvian immigrant herders and Mormon families who have grazed sheep for generations, explores delicately balanced stone cairns assembled by shepherds now long gone, and ponders the meaning of arborglyphs carved into unending aspen forests. The Woolly West is the first book in decades devoted to the sheep industry and breaks new ground in the history of the Colorado Basque, Greek, and Hispano shepherding families whose ranching legacies continue to the present day.

Bring Back the Buffalo!

Author : Ernest Callenbach
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1597268836
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (972 download)

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Download or read book Bring Back the Buffalo! written by Ernest Callenbach and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2012-07-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bring Back the Buffalo!, Ernest Callenbach argues that the return of the bison is the key to a sustainable future for the Great Plains. Vast stretches of the region have seen a steady decline in population and are ill-suited for traditional agriculture or cattle ranching. Yet those same areas provide ideal habitat for bison. Callenbach explores the past history, present situation, and future potential of bison in North America as he examines what can and should be done to re-establish bison as a significant presence in the American landscape. He looks forward with high hopes to a time when vast herds of buffalo provide permanent sustenance to the rural inhabitants of the Great Plains and again play a central role in the balance of nature.

Rodeo

Author : Susan Nance
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806166835
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Rodeo written by Susan Nance and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What would rodeo look like if we took it as a record, not of human triumph and resilience, but of human imperfection and stubbornness?” asks animal historian Susan Nance. Against the backdrop of the larger histories of ranching, cattle, horses, and the environment in the West, this book explores how the evolution of rodeo has reflected rural western beliefs and assumptions about the natural world that have led to environmental crises and served the beef empire. By unearthing behind-the-scenes stories of rodeo animals as diverse individuals, this book lays bare contradictions within rodeo and the rural West. For almost 150 years, westerners have used rodeo to symbolically reenact their struggles with animals and the land as uniformly progressive and triumphant. Nance upends that view with accounts of individual animals that reveal how diligently rodeo people have worked to make livestock into surrogates for the trials of rural life in the West and the violence in its history. Western horses and cattle were more than just props. Rodeo reclaims their lived history through compelling stories of anonymous roping steers and calves who inspired reform of the sport, such as the famed but abused bucker Steamboat, and the many broncs and bulls, famous or not, who unknowingly built an industry. Rodeo is a dangerous sport that reveals many westerners as people proudly tolerant of risk and violence, and ready to impose these values on livestock. In Rodeo: An Animal History, Nance pushes past standard histories and the sport’s publicity to show how rodeo was shot through with stubbornness and human failing as much as fortitude and community spirit.

Grazing Management and Grazing Fee Issues

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands, National Parks, and Forests
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Grazing Management and Grazing Fee Issues written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands, National Parks, and Forests and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cow Talk

Author : Michelle K. Berry
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 080619233X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Cow Talk written by Michelle K. Berry and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2023-03-16 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The image of western ranchers making a stand for their “rights”—against developers, the government, “illegal” immigrants—may be commonplace today, but the political power of the cowboy was a long time in the making. In a book steeped in the culture, traditions, and history of western range ranching, Michelle K. Berry takes readers into the Cold War world of cattle ranchers in the American West to show how that power, with its implications for the lands and resources of the mountain states, was built, shaped, and shored up between 1945 and 1965. After long days working the ranch, battling human and nonhuman threats, and wrestling with nature, ranchers got down to business of another sort, which Berry calls “cow talk.” Discussing the best new machinery; sharing stories of drought, blizzards, and bugs; talking money and management and strategy: these ranchers were building a community specific to their time, place, and work and creating a language that embodied their culture. Cow Talk explores how this language and its iconography evolved and how it came to provide both a context and a vehicle for political power. Using ranchers’ personal papers, publications, and cattle growers association records, the book provides an inside view of how range cattle ranchers in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana created a culture and a shared identity that would frame and inform their relationship with their environment and with society at large in an increasingly challenging, modernizing world. A multifaceted analysis of postwar ranch life, labor, and culture, this innovative work offers unprecedented insight into the cohesive political and cultural power of western ranchers in our day.

Rewilding the West

Author : Richard Manning
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520943179
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Rewilding the West written by Richard Manning and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-06-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The most destructive force in the American West is its commanding views, because they foster the illusion that we command," begins Richard Manning's vivid, anecdotally driven account of the American plains from native occupation through the unraveling of the American enterprise to today. As he tells the story of this once rich, now mostly empty landscape, Manning also describes a grand vision for ecological restoration, currently being set in motion, that would establish a prairie preserve larger than Yellowstone National Park, flush with wild bison, elk, bears, and wolves. Taking us to an isolated stretch of central Montana along the upper Missouri River, Manning peels back the layers of history and discovers how key elements of the American story—conservation, the New Deal, progressivism, the yeoman myth, and the idea of private property—have collided with and shaped this incomparable landscape. An account of great loss, Rewilding the West also holds out the promise of resurrection—but rather than remake the plains once again, Manning proposes that we now find the wisdom to let the prairies remake us.