Back from the Collapse: American Prairie and the Restoration of Great Plains Wildlife Freese Curtis H
Back from the Collapse is about the ecological restoration of North America's Great Plains, a region that has been called America's Serengeti in recognition of its historically extraordinary abundance…
Specifikacia Back from the Collapse: American Prairie and the Restoration of Great Plains Wildlife Freese Curtis H
Back from the Collapse is about the ecological restoration of North America's Great Plains, a region that has been called America's Serengeti in recognition of its historically extraordinary abundance of wildlife. Since Euro-American colonization, however, populations of at least twenty-four species of Great Plains wildlife have collapsed--from pallid sturgeon and burrowing owls to all major mammals, including bison and grizzly bears. In response to this incalculable loss, Curtis H. Freese and other conservationists founded American Prairie, a nonprofit organization with the mission of supporting the region's native wildlife by establishing a 3.2-million-acre reserve on the plains of eastern Montana, one of the most intact and highest priority areas for biodiversity conservation in the Great Plains.In Back from the Collapse Freese explores the evolutionary history of