Resettling the Range

Animals, Ecologies, and Human Communities in British Columbia

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Nature, Animals, Horses, Pets
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Author: John Thistle ISBN: 9780774828406
Publisher: UBC Press Publication: February 25, 2015
Imprint: UBC Press Language: English
Author: John Thistle
ISBN: 9780774828406
Publisher: UBC Press
Publication: February 25, 2015
Imprint: UBC Press
Language: English

The ranchers who resettled British Columbia’s interior in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries depended on grassland for their cattle, but in this they faced some unlikely competition from grasshoppers and wild horses. With the help of the government, settlers resolved to rid the range of both. Resettling the Range explores the ecology and history of the grasslands and the people who lived there by looking closely at these eradication efforts. In the process, the author uncovers in claims of “range improvement” and “rational land use” more complicated stories of dispossession and marginalization.

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The ranchers who resettled British Columbia’s interior in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries depended on grassland for their cattle, but in this they faced some unlikely competition from grasshoppers and wild horses. With the help of the government, settlers resolved to rid the range of both. Resettling the Range explores the ecology and history of the grasslands and the people who lived there by looking closely at these eradication efforts. In the process, the author uncovers in claims of “range improvement” and “rational land use” more complicated stories of dispossession and marginalization.

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