Prairie Conservation
Subtitle: Preserving North America's Most Endangered Ecosystem
Contributors: E. Benjamin Nelson (Foreword); Al Steuter (Contributor); Fred B. Samson (Editor); Fritz L. Knopf (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Island Press
Published: August 1, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9781559634281
Subjects: NATURAL HISTORY, COUNTRY LIFE & PETS; Natural Resources; Environmental Science; Environmental Studies; Nature/Ecology; Prairie conservation; Life Sciences - Ecology - Ecosystems; Science / Ecology; Ecosystem management; North America
First sentence: Atop a sandstone ridge that juts like a ship's prow from Texas's Llano Estacado plateau, my girlfriend and I sit a few feet from a snapping juniper fire in the twilight of a Great Plains dawn, sipping hot coffee and waiting.