In the Rancher's Protection - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In the Rancher's Protection write by Beth Cornelison. This book was released on 2020-07-01. In the Rancher's Protection available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. She thought she’d be safe in the mountains… But the past is not so easily escaped! Carrie French is escaping an abusive husband when she seeks refuge at the Double M Ranch. There, she forms a friendship with Luke Wright, a ranch hand dealing with his own tragic past. But after they end up trapped on a mountainside, on the run from Carrie’s armed ex, their deepening connection could be the only thing that saves them.
Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman: Conservation Heroes of the American Heartland
Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman: Conservation Heroes of the American Heartland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman: Conservation Heroes of the American Heartland write by Miriam Horn. This book was released on 2016-09-06. Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman: Conservation Heroes of the American Heartland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Now a feature-length documentary on the Discovery channel narrated by Tom Brokaw. “Lush, gorgeously written…A profoundly hopeful book.” —Tina Rosenberg, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award A Kirkus Best Book of 2016 Many of the men and women doing today’s most consequential environmental work—restoring America’s grasslands, wildlife, soil, rivers, wetlands, and oceans—would not call themselves environmentalists; they would be too uneasy with the connotations of that word. What drives them is their deep love of the land: the iconic terrain where explorers and cowboys, pioneers and riverboat captains forged the American identity. They feel a moral responsibility to preserve this heritage and natural wealth, to ensure that their families and communities will continue to thrive. Unfolding as a journey down the Mississippi River, Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman tells the stories of five representatives of this stewardship movement: a Montana rancher, a Kansas farmer, a Mississippi riverman, a Louisiana shrimper, and a Gulf fisherman. In exploring their work and family histories and the essential geographies they protect, Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman challenges pervasive and powerful myths about American and environmental values.
Welfare Ranching
Welfare Ranching - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Welfare Ranching write by George Wuerthner. This book was released on 2002. Welfare Ranching available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This book shows the real West, not the one seen in postcards or imagined from romantic movies and novels. With photographs and essays, it shows not only the most shocking cases of overgrazing, but also the subtle changes that signal ecological disruption on a massive scale. Welfare Ranching explains the cultural and historical causes of the wasting of the West and offers a vision of the renewal that is possible if citizens are willing to demand that their government shift land management priorities to serving the public and natural good, rather than facilitating private gain. Ultimately, this book points the way to the greatest opportunity yet remaining for ecological restoration and wildlife protection in this country."--BOOK JACKET.
Ranching West of the 100th Meridian
Ranching West of the 100th Meridian - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ranching West of the 100th Meridian write by Richard L. Knight. This book was released on 2002. Ranching West of the 100th Meridian available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Recommended by The Nature Conservancy magazine. Ranching West of the 100th Meridian offers a literary and thought-provoking look at ranching and its role in the changing West. The book's lyrical and deeply felt narratives, combined with fresh information and analysis, offer a poignant and enlightening consideration of ranchers' ecological commitments to the land, their cultural commitments to American society, and the economic role ranching plays in sustainable food production and the protection of biodiversity. The book begins with writings that bring to life the culture of ranching, including the fading reality of families living and working together on their land generation after generation. The middle section offers an understanding of the ecology of ranching, from issues of overgrazing and watershed damage to the concept that grazing animals can actually help restore degraded land. The final section addresses the economics of ranching in the face of declining commodity prices and rising land values brought by the increasing suburbanization of the West. Among the contributors are Paul Starrs, Linda Hasselstrom, Bob Budd, Drummond Hadley, Mark Brunson, Wayne Elmore, Allan Savory, Luther Propst, and Bill Weeks. Livestock ranching in the West has been attacked from all sides -- by environmentalists who see cattle as a scourge upon the land, by fiscal conservatives who consider the leasing of grazing rights to be a massive federal handout program, and by developers who covet intact ranches for subdivisions and shopping centers. The authors acknowledge that, if done wrong, ranching clearly has the capacity to hurt the land. But if done right, it has the power to restore ecological integrity to Western lands that have been too-long neglected. Ranching West of the 100th Meridian makes a unique and impassioned contribution to the ongoing debate on the future of the New West.
Ranching, Endangered Species, and Urbanization in the Southwest
Ranching, Endangered Species, and Urbanization in the Southwest - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ranching, Endangered Species, and Urbanization in the Southwest write by Nathan F. Sayre. This book was released on 2002-09. Ranching, Endangered Species, and Urbanization in the Southwest available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sayre examines the history of the ranch and the bobwhite together, exploring the interplay of social, economic, and ecological issues to show how ranchers and their cattle altered the land - for better or worse - during a century of ranching and how the masked bobwhite became a symbol for environmentalists who believe that the removal of cattle benefits rangelands and wildlife."--BOOK JACKET.
