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: Hardcover
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9781559634274
Subjects: Conservation of the environment; Grasslands, heaths, prairies, tundra; Prairie conservation; Natural Resources; Land Conservation; Nature; North America; Nature/Ecology; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Life Sciences - Ecology - Ecosystems; Science / Ecology; Ecosystem management
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.