Ranching, Endangered Species, and Urbanization in the American Southwest
Subtitle: Species of Capital (Environmental History of the Borderlands)
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: September 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780816521586
Subjects: Nature conservation; Ranching; Masked bobwhite; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; United States - State & Local - General; Nature; Environmental Studies; Political aspects; Nature/Ecology; Environmental Conservation & Protection - Endangered Species; United States - General; Arizona; Buenos Aires National Wildlife; History
Description: "The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service bought the Buenos Aires Ranch in 1985, removed all livestock, and set about to restore the land to its "original" grassland in order to protect an endangered species, the masked bobwhite quail.

Sayre examines the history of the ranch and the bobwhite together, exploring the interplay of social, economic, and ecological issues to show how ranchers and their cattle altered the land - for better or worse - during a century of ranching and how the masked bobwhite became a symbol for environmentalists who believe that the removal of cattle benefits rangelands and wildlife."--BOOK JACKET.