Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
Slopovers
Fire Surveys of the Mid-American Oak Woodlands, Pacific Northwest, and Alaska
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
America is not simply a federation of states but a confederation of regions. Some have always held national attention, some just for a time. Slopovers examines three regions that once dominated the national narrative and may now be returning to prominence.
The Mid-American oak woodlands were...
Our Country, The Planet
Forging A Partnership For Survival
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Our Country, The Planet is a wide-ranging discussion of the global environmental crisis that accounts for the positions and perceptions of both developed and developing nations. As presidof the World Conservation Union and the only person to have served on all five independinternational commissions...
The New Wild
Why Invasive Species Will Be Nature's Salvation
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
**Named one of the best books of 2015 by The Economist
A provocative exploration of the “new ecology” and why most of what we think we know about alien species is wrong**
For a long time, veteran environmental journalist Fred Pearce thought in stark terms about invasive species: they...
by Brent Carney
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2005
In 1926, Earl Oglebay willed his summer estate, Waddington Farm, to the city of Wheeling with the hope that it would provide entertainment and education to the community. He and naturalist A.B. Brooks, both mavericks in ecology and agricultural training, established the unique environmental emphasis...
The Michigan Eco-Traveler
A Guide to Sustainable Adventures in the Great Lakes State
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Michigan offers some of the most wonderfully diverse recreation opportunities in the country. The Michigan Eco-Traveleris for a new and growing breed of leisure traveler and adventurer—the individual seeking to experience the pleasant peninsulas responsibly by minimizing his or her eco-footprint....
The People's Own Landscape
Nature, Tourism, and Dictatorship in East Germany
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
East Germany’s Socialist Unity Party aimed to placate a public well aware of the higher standards of living enjoyed elsewhere by encouraging them to participate in outdoor activities and take vacations in the countryside. Scott Moranda considers East Germany’s rural landscapes from the perspective...
Forests for the People
The Story of America's Eastern National Forests
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Forests for the People tells one of the mextraordinary stories of environmental protection in our nation’s history: how a diverse coalition of citizens, organizations, and business and political leaders worked to create a system of national forests in the Eastern United States. It offers an insightful...
Border Sanctuary
The Conservation Legacy of the Santa Ana Land Grant
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge lies on the northern bank of the Rio Grande in South Texas, about seventy miles upriver from the Gulf of Mexico. In Border Sanctuary, M.J. Morgan uncovers how 2,000 acres of rare subtropical riparian forest came to be preserved in a region otherwise dramatically...
by Jeremy Purseglove
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
‘Exquisitely written’ Sunday Times Beautifully written and magnificently illustrated with photographs, line drawings and maps, this book serves both as a celebration of the richness of the British countryside, and as a warning of the legacy of loss and destruction we could so easily leave to future...
Land of the Underground Rain
Irrigation on the Texas High Plains, 1910-1970
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
The scarcity of surface water which has so marked the Great Plains is even more characteristic of its subdivision, the Texas High Plains. Settlers on the plateau were forced to use pump technology to tap the vast ground water resources—the underground rain—beneath its flat surface. The evolution...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2007
Coral reefs declined worldwide during the 1980s and 1990s, making them perhaps the most endangered marine ecosystem on Earth. This realization spurred John W. Tunnell Jr. and others to write a comprehensive book that would raise awareness of coral reefs and their plight. Tunnell and coeditors Ernesto...
Water Rights and the Environment in the United States: A Documentary and Reference Guide
A Documentary and Reference Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
This sweeping study traces the development of water policy in the United States from the 19th century to the present day, exploring the role of legislation in appropriating access to water to the American people.
• Addresses recent events including the handling of Hurricane Katrina and the...
Wilderness Forever
Howard Zahniser and the Path to the Wilderness Act
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
Winner of the Forest History Society's 2006 Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Book Award
As a central figure in the American wilderness preservation movement in the mid-twentieth century, Howard Zahniser (1906-1964) was the person most responsible for the landmark Wilderness Act of 1964. While the rugged...
The Yosemite
John Muir's quest to preserve the wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
‘All these colours, from the blue sky to the yellow valley smoothly blending as they do in a rainbow, making a wall of light ineffably fine.’
Having spent significant time obsessively exploring and learning about the Sierra, John Muir’s passion for and belief in preserving the wilderness...