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A Place Between the Tides: A Naturalist's Reflections on the Salt Marsh by Harry Thurston Synopsis A Place Between the Tides is an evocative mix of scientific observation and personal memories that captures the tremendous vitality and vulnerability of marshlands. For every nature writer there seems to be one special place that demonstrates the ways of... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Bogs, Meadows, Marshes, and Swamps: A Guide to 25 Wetland Sites of Washington State by Marie Churney Book News Annotation An analysis of the Clean Water Act of 1972 and subsequent legislation focusing on the process by which such legislation is enacted and arguing for clearer lines of planning and management. The authors propose a system of "pragmatic enforcement... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination by Barbara Hurd Publisher Comments 'In these nine evocative essays, Barbara Hurd explores the seductive allure of bogs, swamps, and wetlands. Hurd\'s forays into the land of carnivorous plants, swamp gas, and bog men provide fertile ground for rich thoughts about mythology, literature... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Wetlands by William Niering Publisher Comments A comprehensive field guide, fully illustrated with color photographs, to the trees, wildflowers, fishes, insects, birds, and other natural wonders of North America's rivers, lakes, and swamps.... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Wetlands: A Threatened Landscape by Michael Williams Publisher Comments Wetlands occupy some six per cent of the Earth's land surface. They vary from fens and freshwater marshes to tropical mangroves and tundra swamps. They perform vital hydrological, chemical and biological roles and contain unique and diverse forms of... (read more) List Price $63.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Sierra Club Wetlands Reader: A Literary Journey by Sam Wilson Publisher Comments The Sierra Club Wetlands Reader is the second volume in the Sierra Club's new series of literary celebrations of the Earth's biomes -- the major ecological communities that have shaped the collective human experience. From the Everglades to Alaska, North... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Wetlands by William J Mitsch Publisher Comments So definitive that the first edition was quoted in Congressional testimony on wetland protection, Wetlands provides an extensive overview of virtually every type of saline and freshwater wetland in North America. The authors cover chemistry, biology... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price: $26.00 Used - Hardcover
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Collaborative Planning for Wetlands and Wildlife: Issues and Examples by Douglas Porter Publisher Comments "Collaborative Planning for Wetlands and Wildlife" presents numerous case studies that demonstrate how different communities have creatively reconciled problems between developers and environmentalists. It answers questions asked by regulators... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Guide to Wetland Functional Design by Anne D Marble Publisher Comments A Guide to Wetland Functional Design provides coherent design guidance on wetland replacement for estuarine, palustrine, riverine, and lacustrine systems. It describes wetland design from a functional standpoint and addresses subjects such as wetland... (read more) List Price $94.95 Your price: $85.00 Used - Hardcover
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Wetlands Explained: Wetland Science, Policy, and Politics in America by William M Lewis Publisher Comments This book brings together in compact form a broad scientific and sociopolitical view of US wetlands. This primer lays out the science and policy considerations to help in navigating this branch of science that is so central to conservation policy... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Where Land and Water Meet: A Western Landscape Transformed (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books) by Nancy Langston Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-218) and index.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Shadows on the Gulf (11 Edition) by Rowan Jacobsen Publisher Comments While other books play the blame game of what went wrong on the Deepwater Horizon and who is responsible, Shadows on the Gulf offers a surprising, harder truth: As bad as the oil spill was, it doesn't touch the damage done to the Gulf every year by what... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $13.00 Used - Hardcover
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An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century (Environmental History and the American South) by Jack E Davis Publisher Comments No one did more than Marjory Stoneman Douglas to transform the Everglades from the country's most maligned swamp into its most beloved wetland. By the late twentieth century, her name and her classic The Everglades: River of Grass had become synonymous... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $23.50 New - Hardcover
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Holding Back the Sea: The Struggle on the Gulf Coast to Save America by Christoph Hallowell Publisher Comments Katrina's arrival on the Gulf Coast was a long time in coming. But it was assured. Since 1965, when Hurricane Betsy struck New Orleans, breached a levee, and flooded part of the city, everyone was waiting and talking about when the Big One would strike... (read more) List Price $13.50 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Marshes: The Disappearing Edens by William Burt Publisher Comments Drawn since boyhood to the beauty and allure of marshes, naturalist William Burt has prowled them by day and night, in every season, from one edge of North America to the other. For thirty years he has hauled his large-format camera with him, seeking to... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Absence and Light: Meditations from the Klamath Marshes by John R. Campbell Publisher Comments John R. Campbell presents thought-provoking commentary on contemporary culture in a series of meditations on the Klamath marshes, an area on the Oregon/California border rich in both natural and human history.... (read more) List Price $20.50 Your price: $5.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Winemaker's Marsh by Kenneth Brower Publisher Comments One winter day in 1988, as he surveyed his newly purchased land in California's wine country, Sam Sebastiani made a bold decision: He would plant vines on his hillside but he would restore the hayfield below it to its natural condition - a freshwater... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $6.75 Used - Hardcover
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The Louisiana Coast: Guide to an American Wetland (Tam Nature Guides) by Gay Gomez Publisher Comments Hurricane Katrina gave the nation an urgent reminder of the extent and value of Louisiana’s wetlands when daily discussions of subsidence and sedimentation revealed how much ordinary coastal processes affect humanity—and vice versa. Now, with... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $16.95 Sale - Flexible
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Collaborative Planning for Wetlands and Wildlife: Issues and Examples by Douglas R. Porter Publisher Comments Collaborative Planning for Wetlands and Wildlife builds on past experience to propose guidelines for more effective planning, and it presents numerous case studies that demonstrate how different communities have creatively reconciled problems between... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $33.69 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Marsh Mission: Capturing the Vanishing Wetlands by C C Lockwood Publisher Comments Louisiana is in a desperate battle to save what remains of its coastal wetlands, which are disappearing at the rate of a football field-size area every 38 minutes. Most people are unaware of the devastating transformation of this remote region, though... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $18.50 Sale - Hardcover
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