Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
by Eugene H. Ware
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Located on a seven-mile peninsula on the shores of Lake Erie in Erie, Pennsylvania, Presque Isle State Park attracts four million visitors each year. With its designation in 1921, Presque Isle became the second state park in Pennsylvania. From this beginning, the citizens of Erie and surrounding areas...
Open Midnight
Where Ancestors and Wilderness Meet
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
Open Midnight weaves two parallel stories about the great wilderness-Brooke Williams’s year alone with his dog ground truthing wilderness maps of southern Utah, and that of his great-great-great-grandfather, who in 1863 made his way with a group of Mormons from England across the wilderness almost...
by Robert A. Long
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
The status of many carnivore populations is of growing concern to scientists and conservationists, making the need for data pertaining to carnivore distribution, abundance, and habitat use ever more pressing. Recdevelopments in “noninvasive” research techniques—those that minimize disturbance...
Marine Reserves
A Guide to Science, Design, and Use
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Marine Reserves represents an invaluable guide for fishery managers and marine protected area managers in creating and implementing effective marine reserves, and an accessible reference for environmentalists and others concerned with the conservation of marine resources. It will also be useful in...
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See
A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Longleaf forests once covered 92 million acres from Texas to Maryland to Florida. These grand old-growth pines were the "alpha tree" of the largest forest ecosystem in North America and have come to define the southern forest. But logging, suppression of fire, destruction by landowners,...
by J.C. Jeremy Hobson
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
This book shows the reader how to perform all the tasks required of the modern gamekeeper, including how to rear and release game, and advises on many aspects of habitat improvement and conservation. It also covers important and sometimes controversial issues, such as public access on private land,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
The book gives a detailed description of the application of DSSAT in simulating crop and soil processes within various Agro-ecological zones in Africa. The book, an output of a series of 3 workshops, provides examples of the application of DSSAT models to simulate nitrogen applications, soil and water...
Keepers of the Trees
A Guide to Re-Greening North America: True Stories of a Tree Doctor, a Big Tree Hunter, an L.A. Tree Planter, a Plant Amnesty Pruner, and a Ninety-Eight-Year-Old Logger
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
Uplifting stories of fourteen people who have dedicated their lives to trees—beautifully illustrated with one hundred color photographs of tree keepers in action.
Across North America, writer and naturalist Ann Linnea found a diverse group of people with one thing in common: their love of trees....
National Parks and Protected Areas
Keystones to Conservation and Sustainable Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
National parks and protected areas offer a wealth of ecological and social contributions or services to humans and life on earth. This book describes the strengths of national parks and protected areas in different parts of Europe and North America and the challenges to the full realization of their...
The Governance of the Countryside
Property, Planning and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Conflicts over the conservation of biodiversity, changing patterns in land use, pollution, climate change, public access and increasing demands for food and energy security lead to the creation of policies designed to reconcile interests and promote society's objectives. This book examines the origins...
The Last Unicorn
A Search for One of Earth's Rarest Creatures
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
An award-winning author's quest to find and understand a creature as rare and enigmatic as any on Earth
In 1992, in a remote mountain range, a team of scientists discovered the remains of an unusual animal with exquisite long horns. It turned out to be a living species new to Western science--a...
Sacred Natural Sites
Conserving Nature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Sacred Natural Sites are the world's oldest protected places. This book focuses on a wide spread of both iconic and lesser known examples such as sacred groves of the Western Ghats (India), Sagarmatha /Chomolongma (Mt Everest, Nepal, Tibet - and China), the Golden Mountains of Altai (Russia), Holy...
by David R. Schiel, Michael S. Foster
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
The largest seaweed, giant kelp (Macrocystis) is the fastest growing and most prolific of all plants found on earth. Growing from the seafloor and extending along the ocean surface in lush canopies, giant kelp provides an extensive vertical habitat in a largely two-dimensional seascape. It is the...
The Curious Life of Krill
A Conservation Story from the Bottom of the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Krill-it's a familiar word that conjures oceans, whales, and swimming crustaceans. Scientists say they are one of most abundant animals on the planet. But when pressed, few people can accurately describe krill or explain their ecological importance. Antarctic krill have used their extraordinary adaptive...