Old west & new west

Montana

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 32-47

  Schnell, Steven M ^a   Sorenson, Curtis J ^b   Larsen, Soren ^c   Dunbar, Matthew ^b   Mcgrogan, Erin ^d  

^a KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NONE

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References (37)

1. W. C. Johnson, R. B. Mc Master, and C. J. Sorenson,"Changing Rangeland Usage in Garden Park, Colorado," Great Plains-Rocky Mountain Geographical Journal, 9 (1980), 59-71
2. For a more general history of the region, see Rosemae W. Campbell, From Trappers to Tourists: Fremont County, 1830-1950 (Colorado Springs, Colo., 1972)
3. See Thomas Heath, "Ranching the Nouvelle West," Newsweek, February 6, 1995, 47
4. Kathleen McCormick, "Home, Home on the Ranchette," Planning, 64, no. 2 (1998), 4-8
5. William H. Romme, "Creating Pseudo-Rural Landscapes in the Mountain West," in Placing Nature: Culture and Landscape Ecology, ed. Joan Iverson Nassauer (Washington, D.C., 1997), 139-61
6. D. M. Theobold, H. Gosnell, and W. E. Riebsame, "Land Use and Landscape Change in the Colorado Mountains II: A Case Study of the East River Valley," Mountain Research and Development, 16, no. 4 (1996), 407-18
7. John B. Wright, Rocky Mountain Divide: Selling and Saving the West (Austin, Tex., 1993)
8. Richard L. Knight, Wendell C. Gilgert, and Ed Marston, eds., Ranching West of the Hundredth Meridian: Culture, Ecology, and Economics (Washington, D.C., 2002), xiii
9. Ben Alexander and Luther Propst, "Saving the Family Ranch: New Directions," ibid., 203-17
10. Ardiur G. Nelson and Kenneth J. Dueker, "The Exurbanization of America and Its Planning Policy Implications," Journal of Planning and Education Research,9,no. 2 (1990), 91-100
11. U.S. Census Bureau, http://www.census.gov, accessed June 2004
12. Johnson, McMaster, and Sorenson, "Changing Rangeland Usage," 64.
13. See also J. A. Crowley, "Ranching in the Garden Parks of Colorado," Geographical Review, 65, no. 4 (October 1975), 445-60
14. see Bureau of Land Management, Draft Environmental Impact Statement, Royal Gorge EIS Area, Colorado: Proposed Domestic Livestock Grazing Program (Washington D.C., 1980). For a broader discussion of this ongoing struggle between resource users and federal land managers
15. see William L. Graf, Wilderness Preservation and the Sagebrush Rebellions (Savage, Md., 1990); and
16. R. McGreggor Cawley, Federal Land, Western Anger: The Sagebrush Rebellion and Environmental Politics (Lawrence, Kans., 1993)
17. Paul F. Starrs, Let the Cowboy Ride: Cattle Ranching in the American West (Baltimore, 1998); Paul F. Starrs, "Ranching: An Old Way of Life in the New West," in Knight, Gilgert, Marston, eds., Ranching West of the Hundredth Meridian, 3-24
18. Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Boston, 2001), 149-66
19. McCormick, "Home, Home on the Ranchette. "
20. see Nelson and Dueker, "Exurbanization of America. "
21. Bureau of Land Management, Gold Belt Tour Scenic Byway. Community Partnership: Vision for the Future (Washington D.C., 2000), 7
22. also available at http://www.co.blm.gov:80/pdf/goldbelt.pdf, accessed July 2004. The wealth of Jurassic-period dinosaur bones found in Garden Park's Morrison formation set off the "bone wars" between paleontologists Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Marsh in the late 1870s. Many of the specimens found in natural history museums throughout the country, in fact, come from the valley. Today paleontologists still periodically unearth skeletons of stegosaurus, apatosaurus, and their kin in the valley
23. Bureau of Land Management, Gold Belt Tour, 9
24. Romme, "Creating Pseudo-Rural Landscapes."
25. See Brewster Kneen, From Land to Mouth: Understanding the Food System (Toronto, 1993)
26. Marcia Herrin and Joan Dye Gussow, "Designing a Sustainable Regional Diet," Journal of Nutrition Education, 21 (1989), 270-75
27. Gail Feenstra, "Local Food Systems and Sustainable Communities," paper presented at the Politics of Sustainable Agriculture conference, Eugene, Oregon, October 7-8, 1995
28. Wendell Berry, "Conserving Communities," Orion (Summer 1995), 49-53
29. See John B. Wright, Rocky Mountain Divide; Starrs, Let the Cowboy Ride; Perri Knize, "Winning the War for the West," Atlantic Monthly, 284 (July 1999), 54-62
30. and Knight, Gilgert, Marston, eds. , Ranching West of the Hundredth Meridian.
31. Thomas L. Fleischner, "Ecological Costs of Livestock Grazing in Western North America," Conservation Biology, 8 (September 1994), 629-44, is an extensive overview of research concerning ecological change that results from ranching. A number of studies covered by Fleischner have indicated that woody and shrubby perennials increase when grazing stops in an area
32. Richard L. Knight, "The Ecology of Ranching," in Knight, Gilgert, Marston, eds., Ranching West of the Hundredth Meridian, 123-44
33. While a hundred years ago there were unquestionable, catastrophic abuses of the land by ranchers, present-day users, spurred in part by government regulation, tread considerably more lightly. As Paul Starrs has argued, "Study after study finds that range management practices are now vastly better than ever before. In every western state, range condition is improved over fifty years ago. The problem, though, is the past, and in particular the rapacious use of lands early in the twentieth century." Starrs, Let the Cowboy Ride,75
34. see Fleischner, "Ecological Costs of Livestock Grazing. " For the effects of exurbanization on biodiversity
35. see Theobold, Gosnell, and Riebsame, "Land Use and Landscape Change"
36. and Jeremy D. Maestas, Richard L. Knight, and Wendell C. Gilgert, "Biodiversity and Land-use Change in the American Mountain West," Geographical Review,91, no. 3 (2001), 509-24
37. T. J. Wheeler et al., Soil Survey of Fremont County Area, Colorado (Washington, D.C., 1995)