Where the Buffalo Roam: Restoring America's Great Plains

In 1987 Frank and Deborah Popper proposed a bold solution to the decline of America's Great Plains: create a vast nature preserve by returning 139,000 square miles in ten states to prairie and reintroducing the buffalo that once roamed there. In *Where the Buffalo Roam*, Anne Matthews follows the Poppers from Montana to Texas as they try to sell their idea called the Buffalo Commons; in the process, she introduces us to the people who love these arid windswept lands. This edition includes a new foreword by environmental historian Donald Worster. Matthews's new afterword describes how with growing support from Native Americans and private groups like the Nature Conservancy, the Poppers' dream of a Buffalo Commons is becoming a reality. "An admirably crafted book, as poignant and entertaining as it is informative."-*Seattle Times* "A priceless piece of Americana."-*The Boston Globe* "Matthew's delightful account of the Poppers, their proposal and the controversy surrounding it does focus new attention on the region and its problems."-*The Philadelphia Inquirer* "Bright, active, effective journalism. . . . An extremely savvy overlook of the dilemmas of the Great Plains."-Wallace Stegner