![]() And he goes way back, starting with an overview of the early Clovis people, the later buffalo societies and grassland cultures, on to the homesteaders, the fencing wars, and today's wheat culture. ![]() But this is not merely a biophiliac's rants Manning lovingly probes the history of the grassland. ![]() In return, nature has taken its revenge in the form of diminished agricultural yields and the kind of unstable pseudo-environment that creates such travesties as the dust bowl. We have plowed the grasslands up, overgrazed them, submitted them to a despoliation that has all but wiped out their native flora and fauna. Grasslands are among the world's great biomes, but our culture's disrespect for them has produced an environmental catastrophe, says Manning (A Good House, 1993, etc). ![]() A powerful eulogy to the great American grasslands and an informed look at where they have been and where they are heading. ![]()
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