Title:
Re-bisoning the West : restoring an American icon to the landscape / Kurt Repanshek.
ISBN:
9781937226985
Personal Author:
Edition:
First Torrey House Press edition.
Publication Information:
Salt Lake City, Utah : Torrey House Press, [2019]
©2019
Physical Description:
229 pages : map ; 21 cm
General Note:
"September 2019"--Title page verso.
Contents:
Prologue -- I. The landscape -- II. Tatanka -- III. The Great Slaughter -- IV. Revival of a precarious species. Charles "Buffalo" Jones ; Theodore Roosevelt ; William T. Hornaday ; Charles Goodnight ; The American Bison Society -- V. Yellowstone's stigma -- VI. Train ride to the future -- VII. Parks and bison -- VIII. Rebounding across the West -- IX. Conserving bison genes on a large-scale landscape -- Epilogue.
Summary:
Millions of majestic bison once roamed territory stretching from Alaska to Mexico. This awe-inspiring species, designated the National Mammal of the United States in 2016, has come close to extinction-- and great effort is needed to preserve it for future generation. Award-winning journalist Kurt Repanshek traces the history of bison from their Ice Age ancestors to present-day strategies to bring them back to the landscape-- and the biological, political, and cultural hurdles confronting this work. Repanshek explores Native Americans' relationship with bison and presents a forward-thinking approach to returning this keystone species to the West and improving the health of ecosystems.-- Source other than the Library of Congress.
OCLC Number:
on1056779712
Availability:
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