Essays on Ranching, Conservation, and Science
The Quivira Coalition - 2003

"There is a story almost totally unknown outside the West, but urgently discussed every day now in the western press: the story of a steadily growing number of local agreements among western environmentalists, ranchers, loggers, miners, and recreationists about how the public land or natural resources should be managed in their particular river drainage or their ecosystem. The emergence of this indigenous form of western problem-solving is almost precisely what Wallace Stegner had predicted and urged when he spoke of the West 'outliving its origins' by learning lessons of cooperation." -Daniel Kemmis, Director of the Center for the Rocky Mountain West

Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction
• Ranching in the Radical Center
  • The Malpai Borderlands Group: Building the Radical Center -William McDonald
  • Marketing Conservation Value -Jim Winder
  • Dry Times: Managing Through a Drought -Kirk L. Gadzia
  • The Southwestern Willow Flycatcher and Me -David Ogilvie
• Balancing Weeds and Ranching -Duke Phillips
  • Herding: How it Works in the West Elks -Dave Bradford and Steve Allen
• Conservation in the Radical Center
  • Looking for the "Radical Center" -William deBuys
  • A New Environmentalism -Courtney White
  • Environmental Justice and Public Lands Ranching in Northern New Mexico -Ernest Atencio
  • It's the Watershed, Stupid -Sid Goodloe
  • What About Nature? Or What Does Nature Have to Say About Grazing? -Dan Dagget
• Science in the Radical Center
  • Melding Rangeland Ecology and Livestock Grazing Management -Kris Havstad
  • Holy Cow! Biodiversity on Ranches, Developments, and Protected Areas in the "New West" -Jeremy Maestas, Richard L. Knight, Wendell C. Gilgert
  • Where Have All the Grasslands Gone? -Craig Allen
  • Wet Meadows: Like Money in the Bank -Bill Zeedyk
  • The Urbanization of Ranching -Nathan F. Sayre
  • Pursuing the Trickster: Monitoring as a Paradigm for Change in West -Will Barnes