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Resettling the Range

Animals, Ecologies, and Human Communities in British Columbia

Distributed for University of British Columbia Press

Resettling the Range

Animals, Ecologies, and Human Communities in British Columbia

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.

244 pages | © 2015

Nature | History | Society

Biological Sciences: Ecology


Table of Contents

Foreword: Mapping the Ecology of Place / Graeme Wynn

Introduction

Part 1: Wild Horses

1 Wrestling with Wild Horses

2 The Biogeography of Dispossession

3 Eradicating Wild Horses

Part 2: Grasshoppers

4 Grappling with Grasshoppers

5 Resisting Range Monopoly

6 New Enemies, Enduring Difficulties

Conclusion

Appendices

Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index

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