Nancy Langston is associate professor of environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the author of Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares: The Paradox of Old Growth in the Inland West.

Foreword/On the Margins, by William Cronon
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1/Ranchers in the Malheur Lake Basin
2/Conflicts between Ranchers and Homesteaders
3/Buying the Blitzen
4/Managing Ducks
5/Grazing, Floods, and Fish
6/Pragmatic Adaptive Management
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Nancy Langston is professor of environmental history and social sciences and affiliate professor, School of Forest Resources and Environmental Sciences, at Michigan Tech. She is the author of Where Land and Water Meet: A Western Landscape Transformed (UW Press, 2015) and Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares: The Paradox of Old Growth in the Inland West (UW Press, 2015).