Download or read book Taming the Wild Field written by Willard Sunderland and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-03 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taming the Wild Field expresses concern with the fate of the world's great grasslands, and the book ends at the beginning of the twentieth century with the initiation of a conservation movement in Russia by those appalled at the high environmental cost of expansion."--Jacket.