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Title

Prairie conservation : preserving North America's most endangered ecosystem / edited by Fred B. Samson and Fritz L. Knopf ; foreword by E. Benjamin Nelson.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Island Press, 1996.

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Additional Authors

• Knopf, Fritz L.
• Samson, Fred B.

Description

xii, 339 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Subject

• Ecosystem management > North America
• Prairie conservation > North America

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-326) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Foreword / E. Benjamin Nelson -- 1. A Long Love Affair with an Uncommon Country: Environmental History and the Great Plains / Dan L. Flores -- 2. The Economic Value of the Prairie / Jeffery R. Williams and Penelope L. Diebel -- 3. Prairie Ecology -- The Tallgrass Prairie / Ernest M. Steinauer and Scott L. Collins -- 4. Prairie Ecology -- The Mixed Prairie / Thomas B. Bragg and Allen A. Steuter -- 5. Prairie Ecology -- The Shortgrass Prairie / T. Weaver, Elizabeth M. Payson and Daniel L. Gustafson -- 6. Prairie Ecology -- Prairie Wetlands / Bruce D.J. Batt -- 7. Prairie Legacies -- Invertebrates / Cody L. Arenz and Anthony Joern -- 8. Prairie Legacies -- Fish and Aquatic Resources / Charles F. Rabeni -- 9. Prairie Legacies -- Amphibians and Reptiles / Paul S. Corn and Charles R. Peterson -- 10. Prairie Legacies -- Birds / Fritz L. Knopf -- 11. Prairie Legacies -- Mammals / Russell A. Benedict, Patricia W. Freeman and Hugh H. Genoways --^
• 12. The Great Plains Partnership / Jo S. Clark -- 13. Canada's Prairie Conservation Action Plan / Ian W. Dyson -- 14. A Multiple-Scale Approach to Conservation Planning in the Great Plains / Stephen J. Chaplin, Wayne R. Ostlie, Rick E. Schneider and John S. Kenney -- 15. Working Partnerships for Conserving the Nation's Prairie Pothole Ecosystem: The U.S. Prairie Pothole Joint Venture / Steven J. Kresl, James T. Leach, Carol A. Lively and Ronald E. Reynolds -- 16. Northern Grassland Conservation and the Prairie Joint Ventures / Michael G. Anderson, Rod B. Fowler and Jeffrey W. Nelson -- 17. Sustainable Grassland Utilization and Conservation in Prairie Agricultural Landscapes / Peter J. Buesseler -- 18. Ecosystem Management and the National Grasslands / Stanley E. Senner and Brian D. Ladd -- 19. The Sandhill Management Plan: A Partnership Initiative / Gene D. Mack --^
• 20. Management Challenges for Prairie Grasslands in the Twenty-first Century / Richard K. Baydack, James H. Patterson, Clayton D. Rubec, Allen J. Tyrchniewicz and Ted W. Weins -- Summary: A New Framework for Prairie Conservation / Paul G. Risser.

ISBN

• 1559634278 (cloth)
• 1559634286 (paper)

LCCN

^^^96011227^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library