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Shadows on the Gulf 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: $16.95 Used - Hardcover 
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The Book of Swamp and Bog: Trees, Shrubs, and Wildflowers of the Eastern Freshwater Wetlands by John Eastman Publisher Comments Picks up where typical field guides leave off: once you know a plant's name, you want to learn how it grows, why it prefers a certain habitat, and which animals depend on it for food and shelter. In nontechnical language and with the help 80 wetland... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Wetland Biography: Seasons on Louisiana's Chenier Plain by Gay M Gomez Publisher Comments Louisiana's Chenier Plain is a 2,200-square-mile region of marshes and oak-covered ridges (cheniers) that stretches along the Gulf of Mexico from Sabine Lake to Vermilion Bay. Its inhabitants, some 6,000 people of Cajun and other ancestries, retain... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Biology of Freshwater Wetlands by Arnold G Van Der Valk Publisher Comments Global wetlands exhibit significant differences in both hydrology and species composition and range from moss-dominated arctic peatlands to seasonally-flooded tropical floodplains. They are increasingly recognized for the important services that they... (read more) Your price: $53.99 New - 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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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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A Wetland Biography: Seasons on Louisiana's Chenier Plain by Gay Maria Gomez Publisher Comments Louisiana's Chenier Plain is a 2,200-square-mile region of marshes and oak-covered ridges (cheniers) that stretches along the Gulf of Mexico from Sabine Lake to Vermilion Bay. Its inhabitants, some 6,000 people of Cajun and other ancestries, retain... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $22.19 Google eBooks - Electronic
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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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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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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 by William J. Mitsch Publisher Comments Praise for the previous editions of Wetlands "Wetlands, the field of study, would not be what it is without Wetlands, the book." ——Bill Streever, Wetlands, 2001 "The Third Edition of this highly successful book manages to set new standards in... (read more) Your price: $99.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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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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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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Discovering the Unknown Landscape: A History of America's Wetlands by Ann Vileisis Publisher Comments The rapidly disappearing wetlands that once spread so abundantly across the American continent serve an essential and irreplaceable ecological function. Yet for centuries, Americans have viewed them with disdain. Beginning with the first European... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $38.50 Google eBooks - Electronic
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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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Wetlands by William J. Mitsch Publisher Comments Praise for the previous editions of Wetlands "Wetlands, the field of study, would not be what it is without Wetlands, the book." ——Bill Streever, Wetlands, 2001 "The Third Edition of this highly successful book manages to set new standards in... (read more) Your price: $99.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The World of the Salt Marsh: Appreciating and Protecting the Tidal Marshes of the Southeastern Atlantic Coast by Charles Seabrook Publisher Comments The World of the Salt Marsh is a wide-ranging exploration of the southeastern coast—its natural history, its people and their way of life, and the historic and ongoing threats to its ecological survival. Focusing on areas from Cape Hatteras, North... (read more) Your price: $28.95 New - Hardcover
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