San Antonio College Library

Americans have an idea of what the Great Plains did to the people who settled there but know little about the analogous process north of the 49th parallel, or how it was reflected in fiction. Dick Harrison's Unnamed Country fills this gap. Harrison traces the varying literary responses to the Canadian prairies, from the bewilderment of the first English-speaking visitors, who saw the country in essentially negative terms -- no wood, no water -- down...

"Americans in ever increasing numbers are rediscovering the prairie. This vast inland sea of grasses, buried for a hundred years beneath farms, cities, and suburbs, has endured not only in physical remnants but also in the memories of its settlers and their descendants, the books of prairie authors, and the work of prairie artists. As restoration ecologists and amateur prairie preservationists recover the land, this book seeks to recover the prairie...

History of the Metis people in Canada.

"Back from the Collapse is about the evolution, EuroAmerican-driven collapse, and large-scale restoration of Great Plains wildlife through efforts by American Prairie to assemble a protected area of 3.2 million acres-1 million acres larger than Yellowstone National Park-on the plains of northeast Montana"--

This program travels to the savannas of Kenya, the grasslands of Australia, and the Cerrado of Brazil to study the remarkable interaction of plants and animals in the grassland biome. Viewers learn about an ecosystem built around the acacia tree, and the role of rhinos in making the savanna fit for antelope in East Africa. In the Cerrado, the video reveals how maned wolves get by on a low nitrogen diet with the help of a fruit called the wolf apple....

In Disarming the Prairie, landscape photographer Terry Evans offers haunting and hopeful images of the impact of America's military-industrial complex on the environment and the transformation of a former military base into a unique nature preserve and public recreation area. Located 40 miles southwest of downtown Chicago, the Joliet Army Arsenal was once the world's largest TNT factory. Abandoned by the post-Cold War era military, the munitions...

"A guide to the American grasslands and the Grasslands National Park of Canada, The National Grasslands presents a history of the region that traces the establishment of the national grasslands as an important part of the New Deal's social revolution. The guide also provides a concise summary of the debates surrounding preservation and use, with special focus on the Buffalo Commons controversy. Each national grassland receives individual attention,...

Demonstrates the principles and practices of restoration ecology through the microcosm of the author's eighty-acre Stone Prairie Farm in Wisconsin, following his three decade effort to create a biologically diverse ecosystem.