Let the Cowboy Ride: Cattle Ranching in the American West.

Etulain, Richard W.; Starrs, Paul F.

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Beyond Designed Capture

Welsh¹

2002

Social Science History

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There is a conventional wisdom about the origin of public range management in the American west that draws most of its evidence logically, but nevertheless circumstantially, from decades of subsequent policy. It is shared by advocates across the political spectrum, from conservative elected officials and ranchers to radical environmentalists. That conventional wisdom distracts the many individuals who have attempted to understand range policy, and it hampers recent attempts at range policy reform. Narrowly, the conventional wisdom concludes that the institutionalized management privilege of cattle ranchersover all other users—the capture of range management—was according to the design of the Taylor Grazing Act of 1934. In so concluding, the conventional wisdom contributes to the more general idea that forces are at work to make the colonization of a policy area by a particular interest the inevitable result of politics in a liberal democracy.

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Beyond Designed Capture

Welsh¹

2002

Social Science History

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A Refreshing Contact with Something Real: The Appeal of Dude Ranch Vacations in Canada and the United States, 1920-1940

Herriman¹

2015

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Viewpoint: Selecting the 5 Most Important Papers in the First 50 Years of the Journal of Range Management

McClaran¹

2000

Journal of Range Management

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A graduate seminar to select the 5 most important papers published in the first 50 years of the Journal of Range Management (J R M), 1948-1997, cultivated an appreciation for the development of the discipline of rangeland science and management, and provided some historical perspective to judge the JRM. A review of textbooks, and papers describing early milestones and the use of citation counting were helpful in developing criteria to discriminate the importance of papers. The greatest disagreement among the 9 participants focused on the use of citation counts as a criterion: 2 students used only counts and 3 students refused to use counts. Eighteen papers received at least 1 vote as a top 5 paper, and 2 plant succession-vegetation monitoring papers were clearly the most popular. The exercise revealed that discontent with the JRM is not new. Although the JRM now covers a wider variety of topics, including both reductionist and synthetic works, some students felt that it was less encompassing of multiple values of rangelands and the breadth of rangeland science than recent texts. The students found that the selection of important papers expanded their understanding of the discipline and their resolve to publish in the JRM. Ideally, others will be challenged to perform this review for the benefit of students, the discipline, and the JRM.

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Let the Cowboy Ride: Cattle Ranching in the American West.

Cited by 5 publications

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Beyond Designed Capture

Beyond Designed Capture

A Refreshing Contact with Something Real: The Appeal of Dude Ranch Vacations in Canada and the United States, 1920-1940

Viewpoint: Selecting the 5 Most Important Papers in the First 50 Years of the Journal of Range Management

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