Ranching, Endangered Species, and Urbanization in the American Southwest: Species of Capital

by Sayre, Nathan Freeman

• ISBN13: 9780816521586
• ISBN10: 0816521581
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: Univ of Arizona Pr

Summary

How the Buenos Aires Ranch became a rallying point for multiple agendas in the "rangeland conflict."

Author Biography

Nathan F. Sayre is a postdoctoral research associate with the Agricultural Research Service-Jornada Experimental Range.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	x
List of Maps	xi
Preface	xiii
Acknowledgments	xxvii
List of Abbreviations	xxxi
Introduction	xxxiii
The Social Production of the Endangered Masked Bobwhite	3	(24)
The Cattle Boom in the Altar Valley	27	(28)
The Formation of Ranching	55	(27)
Producing Nature	82	(23)
The Urbanization of Ranching	105	(21)
Restoring Grass and Quail	126	(26)
Producing a State of Nature	152	(32)
``Where Wildlife Comes Naturally!''	184	(35)
Counterfeiting Conservation	219	(16)
Notes	235	(12)
References	247	(24)
Index	271