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Prairie : a natural history /
- Title
- Prairie : a natural history / Candace Savage ; principal photography by James R. Page ; illustrations by Joan A. Williams.
- Author
- Savage, Candace Sherk, 1949-
- Publication
- Vancouver : Greystone Books ; [Berkeley, Calif.] : Distributed in the U.S. by Publishers Group West, ©2011.
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- Additional Authors
- David Suzuki Foundation, issuing body. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no98084383
- Description
- xiii, 305 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps; 26 cm
- Summary
- Outline: The natural and environmental history of the Great Plains.
- Sample Assignments: (1) Discuss the effects of the most recent Ice Age on the ecology and landforms of the Great Plains. (2) Describe three human uses of prairie rsources. What are their ecological effects? Suggest some solutions for the problems caused by human overexploitation of the prairie. (3) What is one Native American people who lived in the Great Plains? Summerize their history.
- Subjects
- Note
- Co-published by the David Suzuki Foundation.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Where is here? -- Digging into the past -- The geography of grass -- Secrets of soil -- Home on the range -- Water of life -- Praire woodlands -- The nature of farming -- Long range forecast.
- ISBN
- 9781553655886
- 1553655885
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library