By Napier Shelton
ISBN-10: 0826215823
ISBN-13: 9780826215826
ISBN-10: 0826264719
ISBN-13: 9780826264718
In average Missouri: operating with the Land, Napier Shelton deals a journey of awesome average websites in Missouri in the course of the eyes of the folk who paintings with them. Over a interval of 3 years, he roamed all around the kingdom, traveling such diverse areas as Wilson’s Creek nationwide Battlefield, Pomme de Terre Lake, Mark Twain nationwide woodland, the Ozark nationwide Scenic Riverways, Roaring River country Park, Prairie kingdom Park, Ted Shanks Conservation zone, and Mingo nationwide flora and fauna safe haven. alongside the way in which he interviewed specialist source managers and naturalists, biologists, interpreters, conservation brokers, engineers, farmers, hunters, fishermen, writers, etc which will achieve a point of view that merely those who paintings with the land—for company or for pleasure—can have. Shelton describes a number of land-management philosophies and methods, from mostly hands-off, as in kingdom parks, to mostly hands-on, as in farming. He additionally addresses the questions that encompass the various extra arguable practices, resembling using fireplace for land administration and the creation of nonnative species. along with his comfy writing variety, Shelton invitations the reader alongside on his trips to adventure the locations and folks as he did. traditional Missouri captures the essence of Missouri and offers readers a better appreciation for the traditional assets of the country and the folk who paintings so demanding to regulate and shield them.