{"product_id":"back-from-the-collapse-american-prairie-and-the-restoration-of-great-plains-wildlife-paperback-softback-9781496231321","title":"Back from the Collapse; American Prairie and the Restoration of Great Plains Wildlife (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496231321","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBack from the Collapse\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAmerican Prairie and the Restoration of Great Plains Wildlife\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCurtis H. Freese (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496231321\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 July 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e376 pages, 16 photographs, 14 illustrations, 3 tables, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"This book would be an excellent addition to courses in ecology, conservation, and natural resource management, and will also interest naturalists and professional land managers working and living in the region.\"-A. L. Mayer, \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eBack from the Collapse: American Prairie and the Restoration of Great Plains Wildlife\u003c\/i\u003e, Freese convinces us that the reintroduction of wildlife in the Great Plains is necessary and good by giving us the history of our planet earth and the Great Plains, by describing a thriving ecosystem that was destroyed by hunting, ranching and farming, and by recounting American Prairie's restoration successes.\"-Natalia Nebel, \u003ci\u003eNewCity Lit\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"Perhaps after reading Freese's book, you will slow down on your next journey across the Northern Plains and visit the APR and CMR refuge and imagine, as he does, what could be. Rewilding the Northern Great Plains is ecologically realistic, economically sound, and ethically right. And it is happening right now.\"-George Wuerthner, \u003ci\u003eWildlife News\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Grasslands are crucial to Earth’s biological diversity. North America once had a bounteous share. No one is better qualified to tell the story of such prairie ecosystems-the disruption of their dynamics, the collapse of their wildlife populations, and the vital possibility of saving and restoring them-than Curt Freese. This is an important, fascinating book.”-David Quammen, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Tangled Tree\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBreathless\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Curt Freese brings our nation’s ecologically rich but too-long-overlooked grasslands into sharp focus. He delivers a well-researched and approachably written account of the collapse of Great Plains wildlife populations and a challenge to readers-to envision the role that large protected areas can play in biodiversity conservation, especially in the face of climate change.”-Alison Piper Fox, chief executive officer of American Prairie\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the 2024 Wildlife Society's Publication Award \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBack from the Collapse\u003c\/i\u003e is a clarion call for restoring one of North America’s most underappreciated and overlooked ecosystems: the grasslands of the Great Plains. This region has been called America’s Serengeti in recognition of its historically extraordinary abundance of wildlife. Since Euro-American colonization, however, populations of at least twenty-four species of Great Plains wildlife have collapsed-from pallid sturgeon and burrowing owls to all major mammals, including bison and grizzly bears. In response to this incalculable loss, Curtis H. Freese and other conservationists founded American Prairie, a nonprofit organization with the mission of supporting the region’s native wildlife by establishing a 3.2-million-acre reserve on the plains of eastern Montana, one of the most intact and highest-priority areas for biodiversity conservation in the Great Plains.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eBack from the Collapse\u003c\/i\u003e Freese explores the evolutionary history of the region’s ecosystem over millions of years, as it transitioned from subtropical forests to the edge of an ice sheet to today’s prairies. He details the eventual species collapse and American Prairie’s work to restore the habitat and wildlife, efforts described by \u003ci\u003eNational Geographic\u003c\/i\u003e as “one of the most ambitious conservation projects in American history.”\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e List of Maps\u003cbr\u003e List of Tables\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 1: History\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1: How It Started\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: From Sea, Ice, and Forest Emerges a Prairie\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: From the End of One Faunal Collapse to the Dawn of Another\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: From Euro-American Settlement to Today\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 2: Wildlife Collapses and Recoveries\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5: American Beaver and River Otter\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6: Ungulates\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7: Carnivores\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8: Rocky Mountain Locust\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9: Black-tailed Prairie Dog and Black-footed Ferret\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10: Pallid Sturgeon and Other Fish Stories\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11: Grassland Birds\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 3: Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 12: Where We’\u003cbr\u003eve Been and Where We Need to Go\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Bison Books","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52676719280408,"sku":"9781496231321","price":19.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/back-from-the-collapse-american-prairie-and-the-restoration-of-great-plains-wildlife-paperback-softback-9781496231321","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}