Forestry/National Parks
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Yellowstone to Yukon: Freedom to Roam
by Florian Schulz  Publisher Comments A grizzly bear emerges, one small detail in an immense vista of field and mountains and sky. A shoreline, still and empty but for the telltale tracks of passing wildlife. Golden peaks that roll to the horizon, starkly beautiful in the morning light. This...
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Death, Daring, and Disaster: Search and Rescue in the National Parks
by Charles R Farabee Publisher Comments An encyclopedic account of search and rescue in the national parks from 1870 to the present. New edition contains SAR from 1998-2004....
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Lost in the Yellowstone: Truman Everts's "Thirty-Seven Days of Peril"
by Truman Everts Publisher Comments In September 1870, Truman Everts was separated from one of the first exploratory parties in what is now Yellowstone National Park. With little food, equipment, or cold-weather clothing Everts spent more than a month wandering the wilderness before two...
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Yellowstone Denied: The Life of Gustavus Cheyney Doane
by Kim Allen Scott Publisher Comments How lasting fame eluded one of Yellowstone's earliest...
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Wild Yosemite: Personal Accounts of Adventure, Discovery, and Nature
by Susan M. (edt) Neider Publisher Comments This beautiful literary collection explores the spectacular natural features of Yosemite through the eyes of some of the most extraordinarily talented writers. In 1851, Lafayette Bunnell chronicled his travels with the Mariposa Battalion, the first non...
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Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico
by E. L. Kolb Publisher Comments During the fall and winter of 1911 & 12, pioneering Grand Canyon photographers Ellsworth and Emery Kolb rowed down the Green and Colorado Rivers through the Grand Canyon. Remarkably, they brought a newfangled motion-picture camera along for the ride...
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Yellowstone Wild and Beautiful
by Fred Pflughoft Publisher Comments Yellowstone National Park in all its four-season glory in full-color photography. 129 color photographs....
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The Flight Deck: Digital Rhythms of Our National Wildlife Refuges
by Jim Jamieson Publisher Comments Each year migratory birds streak across the North American flight deck. Knowing no boundaries, the continent is linked via key migration routes. Within these routes are the Bosque del Apache, J.N. ODingO Darling, Sherburne, and Upper Mississippi River...
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Parks and Carrying Capacity: Commons Without Tragedy
by Robert E. Manning Publisher Comments How much can we use the environment without spoiling what we find so valuable about it? Determining the carrying capacity of parks and related areas is a perennial question whose urgency grows each year as the number of visits continues to increase...
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In Fire's Way: A Practical Guide to Life in the Wildfire Danger Zone
by Thomas Wolf Publisher Comments A fire fighting tool for homeowners and firefighters alike, this guide discusses both the properties of wildfires and ways to minimize damage. Authored by an environmental journalist with advanced degrees in forestry, it is a must-have book designed to...
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Call Me Hank: A St: L Mans Reflections on Logging, Living, and Growing Old
by Keith Thor Carlson And Kristina Fagan Book News Annotation He was not considered fully Aboriginal, nor was he considered by any means to be white. He was what he was, a logger, a man who knew the land and lived on it, a storyteller who could break your heart with humor. When this account of his life was...
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Yosemite: The Embattled Wilderness
by Alfred Runte Publisher Comments Among all of the debates affecting America's national parks, the most enduring-and most intense-is where to draw the line between preservation and use. This is an account of that classic confrontation, as told from the perspective of natural resources...
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Mission 66: Modernism and the National Park Dilemma
by Ethan Carr Synopsis In the years following World War II, Americans visited the national parks in unprecedented numbers, yet Congress held funding at prewar levels and park conditions steadily declined. Elimination of the Civilian Conservation Corps and other New Deal...
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Great Lodges of the National Parks Volume 2
by Christine Barnes Publisher Comments Stand amid soaring Douglas fir in the great hall of Glacier Park Lodge or sit in the setting sun and gaze into the Grand Canyon at El Tovar. This beautiful gift book will transport you to the majestic lodges of our national parks to relive the glory of...
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Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park
by Lee H Whittlesey Publisher Comments Intriguing stories of how people have died in Yellowstone warn about the many dangers that exist there and in wild areas in general....
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Past Tents: the Way We Camped
by Susan Snyder Publisher Comments From the lone backpacker to the "bring it all with you" camper, the antecedents of today's outdoor scene are shown here in all their glory. Rare historic photos....
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Zion Canyon: A Storied Land
by Greer K. Photographs By Michael Plyler Chesher Publisher Comments Zion National Park has served as the stage set for more than twenty-five movies, including, most notably, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. It is also a popular tourist destination, boasting a visitor log of more than 2.5 million every year. During the...
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Zion National Park
by Nicky Leach Publisher Comments These stunning coffee table books include brilliant color photography from America's finest landscape photographers. Each 10 x 13" book features full-color regional and park maps as well as up-to-date, informative subsections and side bars about the area....
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Yosemite: Its Discovery, Its Wonders & Its People
by Margaret Sanborn Publisher Comments Here is a well-written study of Yosemite Valley's early history. Starting with discovery in 1833 and continuing through the first part of the twentieth century, the author records the evolution of one of the world's most famous natural attractions...
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Appalachian Trail an Aerial View
by Mark Warner Publisher Comments Sorry, but this one truly flew off the shelves during year-end 2004 holidays, and demand for it has not let up....
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