Understanding the heritage in context
Knowledge for understanding and preserving Cotton Patch.
The Cotton Patch links an animal's grazing behavior with a historical agricultural job. Its decline becomes understandable when weed management and farm economics changed. The goose did not lose all biological value when demand for its former work fell; the change occurred in the human system that maintained it.
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