Doing Good and Doing Well: Prairie Wetlands, Private Property, and the Public Trust

摘要: In this article, we focus on a gift of land and its restoration. The is 300-acre lakeside family farm near Brookings, South Dakota. We gave to the United States Fish Wildlife Service in 2012 be taken from cropland restored prairie wetland—and at time when high commodity prices are encouraging many farmers do precisely opposite, albeit not without challenge. Our intent explore range critical values—values apparent under conditions conflict—as they have been playing out portion U.S. heartland. By going against grain contemporary agricultural practice, inserted ourselves into conflict become strategically placed contribute ethnographically ongoing anthropological, philosophical, environmental discussions what nature worth, whom (in past, present, future), why. so doing, follow footsteps Lewis Henry Morgan Aldo Leopold, both pondered similar issues places.