- 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
Bison Plains and Prairie Dogs
Bison Plains and Prairie Dogs
- Chapter:
- (p.61) Nine Bison Plains and Prairie Dogs
- Source:
- Grass
- Author(s):
JOE C. TRUETT
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
The chapter highlights the interactions of weather, grass, bison, and prairie dogs. When rain falls abundantly and bison graze lightly on Bad River Ranches, western wheatgrass proliferates, suppresses buffalograss, and allows stalking predators to push back the margins of prairie dog colonies. Conversely, under heavy grazing and in drought years, western wheat suffers. Buffalograss and prairie dogs proliferate because the former gets a full dose of sunlight and the latter get a better view of approaching coyotes and badgers. In the Great Plains, wild bison often overgraze the range. Prairie dogs usually graze even more intensively than bison.
Keywords: weather, grass, bison, prairie dogs, Bad River Ranches, wheatgrass, buffalograss, Great Plains
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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