Bibliographic record
Abstract
This book details the career of one conservation-minded farmer, not merely as a biography but also as a way of bringing to light the environmental issues that the Canadian Plains, and Saskatchewan in particular, have faced during the past fifty years.At the same time, its author, Andrea Olive, has given us a portrait of a rural citizen fully awake to and engaged in the well-being of the community-human and more than human-in which he is embedded.And that, more than anything, makes Protecting the Prairies a book for our times.As we discover that modern agricultural practices are driving both climate change and biodiversity collapse, places like Saskatchewan, with its millions of hectares of land used for crops and grazing, have the people and resources to lead the transformation of how we grow and distribute food.Part of that shift will be to find ways to leave more natural cover on and around land used to grow crops.The narrative that follows shows how Lorne Scott has done just that while at the same time fostering vital social connections and becoming a leading defender of wild creatures and places throughout farm country.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".