The politics of scale: a history of rangeland science

Introduction. Rangelands, science, and the politics of scale

Producing the range: extermination and fences

Fire and climax: bureaucratic divisions of scientific labor

Squinting at blind spots: Southwestern rangelands and the consolidation of successional theory

Fixing stocking rates: monitoring and the politics of measurement

To manage or manipulate: natural versus artificial improvement of depleted rangelands

The Western range goes global: neo-malthusianism and pastoral development

Till the cows come home: overseas failures and critiques of range science

Conclusion. Capital, climate, and community-based conservation.