San Antonio College Library

In this book, Sue Flanagan focuses her camera skillfully on the three major cattle trails to capture "the lasting spell cast by a land that is different from drover days, yet the same.

In Revolution on the Range, Courtney White heralds stories from a new American West where cattle and conservation go hand in hand. He argues that ranchers and environmentalists have more in common than they've typically admitted: a love of wildlife, a deep respect for nature, and a strong allergic reaction to suburbanization. The real conflict has not been over ethics, but approaches. Today, a new brand of ranching is bridging the divide by mimicking...

"Natural Resources Management Practices: A Primer contains the essentials for natural resources management practices and land use issues in the twenty-first century." "This text is the perfect reference for anyone involved in conservation and enviornmentally sound natural resources management. Its introductory material is helpful to students as a learning tool, and its in-depth information makes this text a ready reference for professionals." "Contents...

Steeped in US soil, this first global history of rangeland science looks to the origin of rangeland ecology in the late nineteenth-century American West, exploring the larger political and economic forces that - together with scientific study - produced legacies focused on immediate economic success rather than long-term ecological well-being. Neither scientists nor public agencies could escape the influences of bureaucrats and ranchers who demanded...