Abstract
dc:description.abstractThe thesis grew out of a year spent working as a ranch hand at the south end of the Madison Valley, on the doorstep of Yellowstone National Park. The landscape—which is beautiful and brutal in equal measure—provides context for a collection of stories and photographs describing the realities of living and working on the ragged edge of man’s range. This project documents an attempt to reconcile ranching with conservation against a backdrop of sheer mountains and bone-scattered wilderness. It deals with hard choices, like whether it is right to take the life of a cow-killing wolf, or how much development a landscape can bear before losing its essential quality of wildness. Taken as a whole, these stories and photographs describe the process by which I came to feel at home on the Sun Ranch, and how physically working the land shaped my understanding of it.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Science (MS)
- Grantor dc:publisher
- University of Montana
- Year
- 2009
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Andrews, Bryce Patrick Chartier
Subjects
dc:subject × 6Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/85
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:scholarworks.umt.edu:etd-1104