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Great Plains Bison traces the history and ecology of this American symbol from the origins of the great herds that once dominated the prairie to its near extinction in the late nineteenth century and the subsequent efforts to restore the bison population. A longtime wildlife biologist and one of the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: O'Brien, Dan, 1947- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2017.
Colección:Discover the Great Plains.
Temas:
American bison > Great Plains > History.
Bison d'Amérique > Grandes Plaines > Histoire.
NATURE > Animals > Mammals.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Zoology > Mammals.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
American bison.
Great Plains > History.
Grandes Plaines > Histoire.
Great Plains.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The lay of the land
  • Invasion : the first wave
  • Cleansing the land : killing the buffalo on the central and southern plains
  • The empty land : the slaughter moves north
  • The old switcheroo : the second wave
  • Penning the prairie : the third wave
  • The third wave : the unintended consequences of technology
  • The resistance : creeping back from the shadows
  • Legacy : lessons from the buffalo.

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