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Prairie dog empire : a saga of the shortgrass prairie /
- Title
- Prairie dog empire : a saga of the shortgrass prairie / Paul A. Johnsgard.
- Author
- Johnsgard, Paul A.
- Publication
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2005.
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Details
- Description
- 243 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-235) and index.
- Contents
- The western shortgrass prairie: a brief history -- A Buffalo nation: its death and rebirth -- Prairie digs and the American west: little towns on the prairie -- Ferrets, badgers, bobcats, and coyotes: coping with dangerous neighbors -- Free-loaders and hangers-on: the rewards and dangers of city life -- Other high plains wildlife: born on the American steppes -- The high plains raptors: death rides on silent wings -- The varmint and predator wars: it's finally almost quiet on the western front -- Taming the great American desert: hardscrabble times at the fringes of nowhere -- The USFS, BLM, and BIA: how the west was lost -- The great plains grassland ecosystem: can it be saved?
- ISBN
- 0803226047 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004024696
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library