The Last Ranch: A Colorado Community and the Coming Desert - Tapa dura

Bingham, Sam

 
9780679422839: The Last Ranch: A Colorado Community and the Coming Desert
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ISBN 10: 0679422838 ISBN 13: 9780679422839
Editorial: Pantheon Books, 1996

Sinopsis

In the small ranching community of Colorado's San Luis Valley, spread out on the flats between the Sangre de Cristo range and the continental divide, Donnie Whitten and his family are trying to change their world. Faced with the slow desertification of once-prime cattle country, the Whittens and their neighbors are forging a new path in the management of their land, finding alternative and often radical measures to stop the coming desert. As their entire way of life is threatened, they begin to tackle one of the world's most pressing environmental problems.
In this absorbing chronicle, Sam Bingham shows the complex interplay between human society and the natural world. He reveals the intricate ecology of a community: from the newly arrived Wall Street couple carving out a life on the Colorado plains to the companies determined to divert the area's most precious resource - water - to cities throughout the West.
Among the remarkable characters who influence the Whittens' quest are a holistic ranch-management expert whose perceptions were honed in an African civil war, a mathematical genius who wins a legal case for the ranchers despite overwhelming odds, and Bud Williams, a man who can move a half-wild herd into a corral simply by putting his hands in his pockets and walking toward them.

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l book presents an absorbing account of Colorado's San Luis valley, a ranching community, as its residents struggle to preserve its way of life in the face of a profoundly changing environment.

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l book presents an absorbing account of Colorado's San Luis valley, a ranching community, as its residents struggle to preserve its way of life in the face of a profoundly changing environment.

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Editorial
Pantheon Books
Año de publicación
1996
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0679422838
ISBN 13 
9780679422839
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
363
Editor
Healey Linda
Contacto del fabricante
no disponible
Persona responsable
no disponible

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ISBN 10:  0156005395 ISBN 13:  9780156005395
Editorial: Houghton Mifflin, 2009
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