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The Blue and the Green: A Cultural Ecological History of an Arizona Ranching Community
Jack Stauder
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Description for The Blue and the Green: A Cultural Ecological History of an Arizona Ranching Community
Hardcover. An exploration of the transformative forces affecting ranching communities Num Pages: 277 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSF; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 635.
In The Blue and the Green, anthropologist Jack Stauder analyzes how large-scale political, social, and environmental processes have transformed ranching and rural life in the West. Focusing on the community of Blue, Arizona, Stauder details how the problems of overgrazing, erosion, and environmental stresses on the open range in the early twentieth century coincided with a push by the newly created US Forest Service to develop fenced grazing allotments on federal lands. Later in the twentieth century, with the enactment of the Endangered Species Act and other laws, the growing power of urban-based environmental groups resulted in the reduction of ... Read more
In The Blue and the Green, anthropologist Jack Stauder analyzes how large-scale political, social, and environmental processes have transformed ranching and rural life in the West. Focusing on the community of Blue, Arizona, Stauder details how the problems of overgrazing, erosion, and environmental stresses on the open range in the early twentieth century coincided with a push by the newly created US Forest Service to develop fenced grazing allotments on federal lands. Later in the twentieth century, with the enactment of the Endangered Species Act and other laws, the growing power of urban-based environmental groups resulted in the reduction of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
277
Place of Publication
Reno, United States
ISBN
9780874179958
SKU
V9780874179958
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99-15
About Jack Stauder
Jack Stauder earned his PhD in cultural anthropology at Cambridge University in England and is a professor at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA. Stauder has done research in many parts of the world and traveled to more than one hundred countries. He is the author of The Majangir: Ecology and Society of a Southwest Ethiopian People.
Reviews for The Blue and the Green: A Cultural Ecological History of an Arizona Ranching Community
“This book was a pleasure to read. It is well written, with a strong conclusion. It will be a major contribution to our understanding of ranching and land-use politics in the rural American West.”
Thomas Sheridan, author of Stitching the West Back Together: Conservation of Working Landscapes “The author has mastered the literature, the geography, the ecology, and ... Read more
Thomas Sheridan, author of Stitching the West Back Together: Conservation of Working Landscapes “The author has mastered the literature, the geography, the ecology, and ... Read more