title: Revolution on the Range: The Rise of a New Ranch in the American West
author: Courtney White
description: In a time when environmental reporting has become justifiably gloomy, this book is a refreshing breath of pragmatic optimism. Environmentalist White highlights quirky, visionary individuals and their innovative methods to improve the quality of the ranges and mountains of the West, such as biologist Bill Zeedyk, who restores riparian areas and water tables using sticks and rocks to simply and cheaply mimic a creek's natural meandering, and activist Dan Dagget, who has been able to unite environmentalists and ranchers by focusing on common goals (open space, wildlife, restored streams). White promotes implementation of the New Ranch, operating on the principle that the natural processes that sustain wildlife habitat, biological diversity and functioning watersheds are the same processes that make land productive for livestock... where erosion has diminished, where streams and springs, once dry, now flow, where wildlife is more abundant, and where landowners are more profitable as a result. White's vision of stewardship, openness to new ideas, giving as well as taking, and flexibility will inspire anyone who loves humanity or the great outdoors. <i>(June)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  ### James Wesley, Rawles
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **America faces a full-scale socioeconomic collapse** —the stock market
  plummets, hyperinflation cripples commerce and the mounting crisis passes the
  tipping point. Practically overnight, the fragile chains of supply and high-
  technology infrastructure fall, and wholesale rioting and looting grip every
  major city.
  
  
  As hordes of refugees and looters pour out of the cities, a small group of
  friends living in the Midwest desperately tries to make their way to a safe-
  haven ranch in northern Idaho. The journey requires all their skill and
  training since communication, commerce, transportation and law enforcement
  have all disappeared. Once at the ranch, the group fends off vicious attacks
  from outsiders and then looks to join other groups that are trying to restore
  true Constitutional law to the country.
  
  
  
  
  
  _Patriots_ is a thrilling narrative depicting fictional characters us