The Prairie Keepers: Secrets of the Zumwalt
by Houle, Marcy

Format: Paperback
Release Date: 1/1/2007
Code: 13088
Condition: New
Product Details
Houle explores the vast prairie on foot and horseback, cataloging its hawks, studying its complex ecosystem, and meeting its people. Fueled by her youth, her spirit, her humor--and in part by her naivete--she bands birds, outruns a bull, and pulls together the factious community of ranchers, townspeople, and government employees. Her findings, eloquently reported, show that ranchers and wildlife not only can coexist, but in some instances must coexist if we are to save the last of the native prairies.
In a new epilogue, Houle writes of the Zumwalt two decades later. Despite tremendous changes occurring in the American West, she finds reason for hope in the Zumwalt--in the hawks and ranchers still there, and also in new partnerships that encourage stewardship and sustainable cattle grazing.
ISBN: 9780870711862
Publisher: Oregon State University Press
Year of Publication: 2007
Page Count: 288
Shipping Weight: 0.90 lb