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Great Plains: America's Lingering Wild by Michael Forsberg Publisher Comments The Great Plains were once among the greatest grasslands on the planet. But as the United States and Canada grew westward, the Plains were plowed up, fenced in, overgrazed, and otherwise degraded. Today, this fragmented landscape is the most endangered... (read more) Your price: $45.00 New - Hardcover 
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A Guide to Illinois Nature Centers & Interpretive Trails by Walter G Zyznieuski Publisher Comments Following the success of their previous collaborations, Illinois Hiking and Backpacking Trails, Revised Edition and A Guide to Mountain Bike Trails in Illinois, Walter and George Zyznieuski offer this concise and handy resource for all outdoor... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Predators of North America by Dave Taylor Publisher Comments A season-by-season reference on North America's most thrilling wild animals. In this book, renowned wildlife photographer Dave Taylor presents 300 full-color images of North American predators in their natural habitats. He offers interesting notes on... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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World Record Whitetails by Gordon Whittington Publisher Comments This book tells the stories that have shaped today's record books. Without a doubt, this book is a priceless piece of whitetail lore and history that should be on the shelf of every hunter.... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $11.20 Used - Hardcover
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Northern Forest (96 Edition) by David Dobbs Publisher Comments Dobbs and Ober closely focus on the lives of Northern Forest residents -- a mill worker, a forester, several loggers, a fishing guide, and a Christmas tree-farming family -- and discover an extraordinary sense of place that arises in those who have a... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Natural History of California by Allan A Schoenherr Publisher Comments This book includes a description of organisms, rocks, and the environment and an attempt to explain what factors through time created what we see today. The facts behind the concepts that are stressed in this book have been drawn from ecology, zoology... (read more) List Price $42.50 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Forester's Log: Musings from the Woods by Mary Stuever Publisher Comments When Mary Stuever graduated from forestry school in the early 1980s, her profession was facing tremendous challenges as the nation's forests were poised for serious decline from catastrophic wildfires, insect outbreaks, and suburban encroachment. Stuever... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Trade Paper
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New England Wildlife: Habitat, Natural History, and Distribution by Richard Degraaf Publisher Comments The only comprehensive guide to the natural histories and habitats of all inland New England species.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $22.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Organisms and Environments #01: View from Bald Hill: Thirty Years in an Arizona Grassland by Carl E Bock Publisher Comments This is a personal account of Carl and Jane Bock's studies of ecological changes in an Arizona grassland following livestock removal in 1968. The Bocks summarize the results of 30 years' field work aimed at placing the ecological lessons learned at the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Life Along the Inner Coast: A Naturalist's Guide to the Sounds, Inlets, Rivers, and Intracoastal Waterway from Norfolk to Key West by Robert L. Lippson Publisher Comments For decades, marine scientists Robert and Alice Jane Lippson have traveled the Inner Coast--the rivers, backwaters, sounds, bays, lagoons, and inlets stretching from the Chesapeake Bay to the Florida Keys--aboard their trawler, Odyssey. The culmination... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover
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Grassland: The History, Biology, Politics and Promise of the American Prairie by Richard Manning Publisher Comments More than forty percent of America was once open prairie, grassland that extended from Missouri to Montana. Taking a critical look at this little understood biome, award-winning journalist Richard Manning urges the reclamation of the land, showing how... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Buffalo in the House: The True Story about a Man, an Animal, and the American West by Richard Dean Rosen Publisher Comments Marley and Me meets All Creatures Great and Small, as an ailing but lovable orphan buffalo joins a Santa Fe household. A sprawling suburban house in Santa Fe is not the kind of home where a buffalo normally roams, but Veryl Goodnight and Roger Brooks... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Mammals of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Maryland (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies) by William Dav Webster Publisher Comments This popular guide, with 117 color photographs plus range maps, acquaints readers of all ages with the exceptional variety of mamals found in this four-state region. The authors describe 88 terrestrial mammals and 33 marine species and discuss the... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $6.40 Used - Hardcover
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Tinkering with Eden: A Natural History of Exotics in America by Kim Todd Book News Annotation Todd, the recipient of the PEN/Jerard Award for this book while it was a work-in-progress, recounts how some of the approximately 4,500 exotic insects, mammals, and plants have been introduced to North America, occasionally for the better (such as with... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Last Great Wilderness: The Campaign to Establish the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge by Roger Kaye Publisher Comments The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is at the center of the conflict between Americas demand for oil and nature at its most pristine. Three decades before the battle over oil development began, a group of visionary conservationists launched a... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Tallgrass Restoration Handbook: For Prairies, Savannas, and Woodlands by Stephen Packard Publisher Comments Written by those whose primary work is actually the making of prairies, "The Tallgrass Restoration Handbook" explores a myriad of restoration philosophies and techniques and is an essential resource for anyone working to nurture our oncevibrant native... (read more) Your price: $47.50 New - Trade Paper
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Bay Area Wild by Galen A Rowell Publisher Comments The San Francisco Bay Area holds the most extensive system of wild greenbelts in the nation, with more than 200 parks and other protected areas lying within forty miles of the city. With stunning photography and inspiring text, renowned outdoor... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bay Area Wild: A Celebration of the Natural Heritage of the San Francisco Bay Area by Galen A Rowell Book News Annotation A collection of 172 color photographs covering coastline, redwood forests, wildflower meadows, river deltas, wetlands, animals, and mountain ridges document some of the parks and preserves of the area. Brief captions identify each photo's content... (read more) List Price $37.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Golden Wings and Hairy Toes: Encounters with New England's Most Imperiled Wildlife by Todd Mcleish Publisher Comments This book profiles fourteen of New England's most rare and endangered flora and fauna--mammals, birds, insects, plants, and fish--by following the biologists who are researching, monitoring, and protecting them. Each chapter includes a first-person... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Big Game of North America by Erwin A Bau Bauer Synopsis Comprehensive introduction to the big game animals of North America with the Bauers' fabulous photographs, plus track diagrams. For hunters and nature lovers.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $23.50 Used - Hardcover
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