Resettling the Range: Animals, Ecologies, and Human Communities in British Columbia (Nature | History | Society)

by John Thistle

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The ranchers who resettled British Columbia's interior in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries depended on grassland for their cattle, but in this they faced some unlikely competition from grasshoppers and wild horses. With the help of the government, settlers resolved to rid the range of both. Resettling the Range explores the ecology and history of the grasslands and the people who lived there by looking closely at these eradication efforts. In the process, the author uncovers in claims of "range improvement" and "rational land use" more complicated stories of dispossession and marginalization.
  • ISBN10 0774828390
  • ISBN13 9780774828390
  • Publish Date 25 February 2015 (first published 1 January 2015)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country CA
  • Imprint University of British Columbia Press
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 244
  • Language English