Rewilding the West: Restoration in a Prairie Landscape

by Richard Manning

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'The most destructive force in the American West is its commanding views, because they foster the illusion that we command,' begins Richard Manning's vivid, anecdotally driven account of the American plains from native occupation through the unraveling of the American enterprise to today. As he tells the story of this once rich, now mostly empty landscape, Manning also describes a grand vision for ecological restoration, currently being set in motion, that would establish a prairie preserve larger than Yellowstone National Park, flush with wild bison, elk, bears, and wolves.Taking us to an isolated stretch of central Montana along the...Read more
  • ISBN10 0520256581
  • ISBN13 9780520256583
  • Publish Date 15 June 2009
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 21 August 2013
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of California Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 238
  • Language English