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Author : Keith E. Evans
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Wildlife of the Prairies and Plains written by Keith E. Evans and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul A. Johnsgard
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1609621263
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (96 download)
Download or read book A Naturalists Guide to the Great Plains written by Paul A. Johnsgard and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book documents nearly 500 US and Canadian locations where wildlife refuges, nature preserves, and similar properties protect natural sites that lie within the North American Great Plains, from Canada's Prairie Provinces to the Texas-Mexico border. Information on site location, size, biological diversity, and the presence of especially rare or interesting flora and fauna are mentioned, as well as driving directions, mailing addresses, and phone numbers or internet addresses, as available. US federal sites include 11 national grasslands, 13 national parks, 16 national monuments, and more than 70 national wildlife refuges. State properties include nearly 100 state parks and wildlife management areas. Also included are about 60 national and provincial parks, national wildlife areas, and migratory bird sanctuaries in Canada's Prairie Provinces. Many public-access properties owned by counties, towns, and private organizations are also described.
Author : Kai Curry-Lindahl
Publisher : New York : H.N. Abrams
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Wildlife of the Prairies and Plains written by Kai Curry-Lindahl and published by New York : H.N. Abrams. This book was released on 1981 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lavishly illustrated text depicts the wild animals of the world's grasslands and describes their environment.
Author : Michael Forsberg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022668167X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)
Download or read book Great Plains written by Michael Forsberg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-03-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Plains were once among the greatest grasslands on the planet. But as the United States and Canada grew westward, the Plains were plowed up, fenced in, overgrazed, and otherwise degraded. Today, this fragmented landscape is the most endangered and least protected ecosystem in North America. But all is not lost on the prairie. Through lyrical photographs, essays, historical images, and maps, this beautifully illustrated book gets beneath the surface of the Plains, revealing the lingering wild that still survives and whose diverse natural communities, native creatures, migratory traditions, and natural systems together create one vast and extraordinary whole. Three broad geographic regions in Great Plains are covered in detail, evoked in the unforgettable and often haunting images taken by Michael Forsberg. Between the fall of 2005 and the winter of 2008, Forsberg traveled roughly 100,000 miles across 12 states and three provinces, from southern Canada to northern Mexico, to complete the photographic fieldwork for this project, underwritten by The Nature Conservancy. Complementing Forsberg’s images and firsthand accounts are essays by Great Plains scholar David Wishart and acclaimed writer Dan O’Brien. Each section of the book begins with a thorough overview by Wishart, while O’Brien—a wildlife biologist and rancher as well as a writer—uses his powerful literary voice to put the Great Plains into a human context, connecting their natural history with man’s uses and abuses. The Great Plains are a dynamic but often forgotten landscape—overlooked, undervalued, misunderstood, and in desperate need of conservation. This book helps lead the way forward, informing and inspiring readers to recognize the wild spirit and splendor of this irreplaceable part of the planet.
Author : Dan Flores
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 070062466X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book American Serengeti written by Dan Flores and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2017-01-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's Great Plains once possessed one of the grandest wildlife spectacles of the world, equaled only by such places as the Serengeti, the Masai Mara, or the veld of South Africa. Pronghorn antelope, gray wolves, bison, coyotes, wild horses, and grizzly bears: less than two hundred years ago these creatures existed in such abundance that John James Audubon was moved to write, "it is impossible to describe or even conceive the vast multitudes of these animals." In a work that is at once a lyrical evocation of that lost splendor and a detailed natural history of these charismatic species of the historic Great Plains, veteran naturalist and outdoorsman Dan Flores draws a vivid portrait of each of these animals in their glory—and tells the harrowing story of what happened to them at the hands of market hunters and ranchers and ultimately a federal killing program in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Great Plains with its wildlife intact dazzled Americans and Europeans alike, prompting numerous literary tributes. American Serengeti takes its place alongside these celebratory works, showing us the grazers and predators of the plains against the vast opalescent distances, the blue mountains shimmering on the horizon, the great rippling tracts of yellowed grasslands. Far from the empty "flyover country" of recent times, this landscape is alive with a complex ecology at least 20,000 years old—a continental patrimony whose wonders may not be entirely lost, as recent efforts hold out hope of partial restoration of these historic species. Written by an author who has done breakthrough work on the histories of several of these animals—including bison, wild horses, and coyotes—American Serengeti is as rigorous in its research as it is intimate in its sense of wonder—the most deeply informed, closely observed view we have of the Great Plains' wild heritage.
Author : Paul A. Johnsgard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Great Wildlife of the Great Plains written by Paul A. Johnsgard and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an overview of 121 birds, mammals, and reptiles native to the Great Plains, organized by habitat with information on each animal's behavior and ecology.
Author : Paul A. Johnsgard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Faces of the Great Plains written by Paul A. Johnsgard and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents prairie wildlife and the art of nature photography covering one hundred fifty species, explaining the ecology, behavior, and life histories of these creatures.
Author : Moira Butterfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Looking at Animals on Plains and Prairies written by Moira Butterfield and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Durward Leon Allen
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN 13 : 9780070010994
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The Life of Prairies and Plains written by Durward Leon Allen and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1967 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in 1491, this presents the life patterns of animals and plants of the grasslands of North America, including the circumstances surrounding the vanishing of wildlife from these regions.
Author : Dan Flores
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0465052991
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Coyote America written by Dan Flores and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book "is both an environmental and a deep natural history of the coyote. It traces both the five-million-year-long biological story of an animal that has become the wolf in our backyards, as well as its cultural evolution from a preeminent spot in Native American religions to the hapless foil of the Road Runner. A deeply American tale, the story of the coyote in the American West and beyond is a sort of Manifest Destiny in reverse, with a pioneering hero whose career holds up an uncanny mirror to the successes and failures of American expansionism"--Dust jacket flap.
Author : Evan Peacock
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817312153
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Blackland Prairies of the Gulf Coastal Plain written by Evan Peacock and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2003-03-05 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a holistic approach, this compilation gathers ecological, historical, and archaeological research written on the distinctive region of the US Southeast called the Gulf coast blackland prairie. Ranging from the last glacial period to the present day, the case studies provide a broad picture of how the area has changed through time and been modified by humans, first with nomadic bands of Indians trailing the grazing animals and then by Euro-American settlers who farmed the rich agricultural area. Contemporary impacts include industrialization, aquaculture, population growth, land reclamation, and wildlife management.
Author : Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 0822521393
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (225 download)
Download or read book Life in a Grassland written by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the physical features, processes, and many different species of plants and animals that make up the ecosystem of the American tallgrass prairie.
Author : Curtis H. Freese
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496236645
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Back from the Collapse written by Curtis H. Freese and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2023-07 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back from the Collapse is a clarion call for restoring one of North America’s most underappreciated and overlooked ecosystems: the grasslands of the Great Plains. This region has been called America’s Serengeti in recognition of its historically extraordinary abundance of wildlife. Since Euro-American colonization, however, populations of at least twenty-four species of Great Plains wildlife have collapsed—from pallid sturgeon and burrowing owls to all major mammals, including bison and grizzly bears. In response to this incalculable loss, Curtis H. Freese and other conservationists founded American Prairie, a nonprofit organization with the mission of supporting the region’s native wildlife by establishing a 3.2-million-acre reserve on the plains of eastern Montana, one of the most intact and highest-priority areas for biodiversity conservation in the Great Plains. In Back from the Collapse Freese explores the evolutionary history of the region’s ecosystem over millions of years, as it transitioned from subtropical forests to the edge of an ice sheet to today’s prairies. He details the eventual species collapse and American Prairie’s work to restore the habitat and wildlife, efforts described by National Geographic as “one of the most ambitious conservation projects in American history.”
Author : Mark A. Rumble
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Small Mammals in Successional Prairie Woodlands of the Northern Great Plains written by Mark A. Rumble and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prairie woodlands comprise about 1 percent of the landscape in the northern Great Plains. However, prairie woodlands provide habitat for far more than 1 percent of the wildlife species that occur in the prairie region. With increasing pressures on natural resources, managers need methods for managing wildlife habitat and biodiversity that are based on ecological processes. We studied the small mammals and vegetation in seral stages of four woodland types in central South Dakota. None of the species was restricted to a single seral stage, but abundance of some small mammals varied depending on seral stages of woodland types. To ensure the biodiversity of the prairie, managers should retain all seral stages of all prairie woodlands.
Author : Gwyn S. Herman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780980199345
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book Habitats of North Dakota written by Gwyn S. Herman and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces North Dakota's riparian areas, explaining "what they are, where they are located, which animals and plants call these areas their home, the importance of riparian areas to water quality and flood control, how riparian areas are threatened, and why they must be preserved and protected for future generations."
Author : Larkin Powell
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496218612
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Great Plains Birds written by Larkin Powell and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Plains is a well-known and well-studied hybrid zone for many animals, most notably birds. In Great Plains Birds Larkin Powell explores the history, geography, and geology of the plains and the birds that inhabit it. From the sandhill crane to ducks and small shorebirds, he explains migration patterns and shows how human settlements have affected the movements of birds. Powell uses historical maps and images to show how wetlands have disappeared, how grasslands have been uprooted, how rivers have been modified by dams, and how the distribution of forests has changed, all the while illustrating why grassland birds are the most threatened group of birds in North America. Powell also discusses conservation attempts and how sporting organizations have raised money to create wetland and grassland habitats for both game and nongame species. Great Plains Birds tells the story of the birds of the plains, discussing where those birds can be found and the impact humans have had on them.
Author : Marianne D. Wallace
Publisher : Fulcrum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781555919924
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (199 download)
Download or read book America's Prairies and Grasslands written by Marianne D. Wallace and published by Fulcrum Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the flora and fauna that survive in America's prairies and grasslands.
