The Llano Estacado of the Us Southern High

This volume presents an environmental, social and economic history of the Llano Estacado region of the US Southern High Plains. It illustrates the tremendous changes in environment that occurred with the European settlement of the Plains. The development of a modern irrigation culture, dependent on non-renewable or exhaustible water resources, is detailed. The final chapter explores the future of the Llano, using a multiplicity of definitions of 'sustainability' and its opposite, 'criticality'. This book is part of the United Nations University Project on Critical Environmental Zones and expands one chapter from the interim volume of the Project, 'Regions at risk: comparisons of threatened environments'.

List of figures and tables

vii

Acknowledgements

ix

Preface

x

The Llano Estacado and the question of sustainability

1

(20)

Creation and change: 12,000 B.P. to A.D. 1860

21

(21)

Early stages of transformation: 1860 to 1900

42

(24)

The new century and the new ecology of the Llano: 1900 to 1945

66

(19)

Expansion and exploitation: 1945 to 1980

85

(26)

The transformation of the Llano in the post-expansion era: 1980 to the present

111

(25)

The future for the Llano: Realms of necessity and freedom

136

(21)

References

157

(13)

Index

170

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The Llano Estacado of the Us Southern High Plains

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