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Title: Where the Buffalo Roam: Restoring America's Great Plains by Anne Matthews, Donald Worster ISBN: 0-226-51096-4 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: November, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: An interesting view of the West
Comment: This book is typical of a piece that evolves from a New York Times Magazine article: full of narrative, a bit rammbling at times and a bit on the lite side. Matthews gives some snippets of ecological and historical analysis, but ultimately this is not an analytical book. It is very readable, however, and raises awareness to the ecologic and economic crises of the Great Plains. The piece details two Rutgers academics, the Poppers, who are promoting the notion of a "Buffalo Commons," a plan that involves the federal government buying out the most marginal of Great Plains land to turn into a giant reserve for bison, shortgrass and Indians. The book details much of the angry Western reaction to the plan. It also shows large sections of the West in near ruin, in desperate need of a new, sustainable solution, as current attempts to exploit the arid West by argiculture is producing only dust storms, a depleted aquifier and busted-out farm communities.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Dilemma on the Great Plains
Comment: This book held my constant attention from the first time I picked it up. Ms. Matthews gives a very even-handed account of what I call "The Dilemma on the Great Plains." She thoughtfully explains the Buffalo Commons plan for the restoration of the plains. She introduces Frank and Deborah Popper, New Jersey academics from Rutgers University, who came up with the Buffalo Commons plan. I was riveted because I once lived in South Dakota, near the Montana and Wyoming borders and could empathize with the issue. The Poppers came up with the Buffalo Commons idea in the late 1980s as a way to "save" the plains. It has been very controversial, to say the least. The plains way of life and the emotions of the issue are handled brilliantly by Ms. Matthews. I was able to see both sides throughout the book. This issue has an importance to our nation. Read this book to know the issues about the decline in our Great Plains.
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Title: Bring Back the Buffalo!: A Sustainable Future for America's Great Plains by Ernest Callenbach, Carl Dennis Buell ISBN: 0520224078 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 21 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Grassland: The History, Biology, Politics and Promise of the American Prairie by Richard Manning ISBN: 0140233881 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: July, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: American Bison: A Natural History by Dale F. Lott, Harry W. Greene ISBN: 0520233387 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 02 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Field Guide to the North American Bison: A Natural History and Viewing Guide to the Great Plains Buffalo (Sasquatch Field Guides Series, No 10) by Robert Steelquist ISBN: 1570611343 Publisher: Sasquatch Books Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Bison: Monarch of the Plains by David Fitzgerald, James Welch, Linda M. Hasselstrom ISBN: 1558684069 Publisher: Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co. Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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