- Title Pages
- Organisms and Environments
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
-
One Promethean Legacy -
Two Out of the Forest -
Three Science and Faith -
Four Playing God -
Five Pleasing to the Eye -
Six Where the Short Grass Grows -
Seven Turf -
Eight Grass and Grazers: An Ecological Primer -
Nine Bison Plains and Prairie Dogs -
Ten Taming of the West -
Eleven Production Science Comes to the Range -
Twelve The Last Pariah -
Thirteen The Trouble with Livestock -
Fourteen Subsidizing John Wayne -
Fifteen Collateral Damage -
Sixteen Cowboy -
Seventeen Resurrection -
Eighteen Pleistocene Park -
Nineteen Diversity -
Twenty Long Road Home - Epilogue
- References
- Index
Resurrection
Resurrection
- Chapter:
- (p.145) Seventeen Resurrection
- Source:
- Grass
- Author(s):
JOE C. TRUETT
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
Most colonies of black-tailed prairie dogs had been exterminated in southwestern New Mexico. This chapter narrates the prairie dog restoration project proposed by the author. It also discusses both the positive and negative implications of prairie dogs. Prairie dogs reduce rangeland condition. They graze very intensively. As colonies age, the grass cover within colonies declines and the condition trends from good to poor on the traditional rangeland manager's scale. Prairie dogs also benefit rare wildlife. The black-footed ferret, often billed as North America's most endangered mammal, needs dogtowns to survive.
Keywords: prairie dogs, prairie dog restoration, grass cover, wildlife, black-footed ferret
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- Title Pages
- Organisms and Environments
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
-
One Promethean Legacy -
Two Out of the Forest -
Three Science and Faith -
Four Playing God -
Five Pleasing to the Eye -
Six Where the Short Grass Grows -
Seven Turf -
Eight Grass and Grazers: An Ecological Primer -
Nine Bison Plains and Prairie Dogs -
Ten Taming of the West -
Eleven Production Science Comes to the Range -
Twelve The Last Pariah -
Thirteen The Trouble with Livestock -
Fourteen Subsidizing John Wayne -
Fifteen Collateral Damage -
Sixteen Cowboy -
Seventeen Resurrection -
Eighteen Pleistocene Park -
Nineteen Diversity -
Twenty Long Road Home - Epilogue
- References
- Index