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The Way It is: One Water...One Air...One Mother Earth...
by Corbin Harney  Publisher Comments A Western Shoshone medicine man from Nevada, Corbin Harney carries an urgent message for all people to return to a natural way of life. "The Native way", Corbin explains, "is to pray for everything, to take care of everything. Our Mother Earth is very...
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Louise Lindsey Merrick Natural Environment #41: Water from Stone: The Story of Selah, Bamberger Ranch Preserve
by Jeffrey Greene Synopsis Award-winning author Jeffrey Greene provides a portrait, by turns lyrical and provocative, of J. David Bamberger's unlikely transformation from first, a vacuum cleaner salesman, then to co-founder and CEO of Church's Fried Chicken, to an internationally...
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Iccat, Ngos and Bluefin Tuna
by Lovorka Kekez Publisher Comments Bluefin tuna is one of the most commercially important fish species not just for Croatia but for all Mediterranean countries. Due to it trans-boundary character its management is arranged through International Commission for Conservation of Atlantic Tuna...
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The Nature of Southwestern Colorado: Recognizing Human Legacies and Restoring Natural Places
by Deborah D. Paulson Publisher Comments A journey through the jaw-dropping landscape of a small but remarkably varied region offers an eye-opening, in-depth evaluation of the ecology of its six subregions, revealing how to recognize human influences on the flora and the fauna, such as logging...
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Heal the Ocean : Solutions for Saving Our Seas (03 Edition)
by Rod Fujita Publisher Comments An oil tanker breaks up off the coast of Spain, contaminating beaches and killing over one hundred thousand birds. Colorful coral reefs turn a deathly white around the world. Six whales die in the Bahamas from bleeding near their ears after the Navy...
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Fairness in Adaptation to Climate Change:
by W. Neil (edt) Adger Publisher Comments Interdisciplinary scientific and policy analysis on the challenges of ensuring that adaptation to global climate change does not place unfair burdens on already vulnerable populations....
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Where the Buffalo Roam 2ND Edition Restoring Ame
by Anne Matthews Publisher Comments In 1987 Frank and Deborah Popper proposed a bold solution to the decline of America's Great Plains: create a vast nature preserve by returning 139,000 square miles in ten states to prairie and reintroducing the buffalo that once roamed there...
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Mountain Goats: Ecology, Behavior, and Conservation of an Alpine Ungulate
by Marco Festa-bianchet Publisher Comments Mountain goats have been among the least studied of North American ungulates, leaving wildlife managers with little information on which to base harvest strategies or conservation plans. This book offers the first comprehensive assessment of the...
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Holding Back the Tide: The Thirty-Five Year Struggle to Save Montauk
by Joan Powers Porco Synopsis Concerned Citizens of Montauk was formed in 1970 as an organized response to block plans by developers to build 1,400 houses near Big Reed Pond. As a direct result, Theodore Roosevelt County Park was created. Building on successes such as this first one,...
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Urban Land; Degradation, Investigation, Remediation.
by Dieter D Genske Publisher Comments Urban land is developed, utilised, abandoned and left to degradation in many different ways. These processes are closely related to four aspects of human activities: the extraction of resources, their transformation into goods, the production of waste...
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Earthline: A 30-Year Anthology
by Bob Chance Synopsis Harford County, Maryland, naturalist Bob Chance presents highlights from his long-running newspaper column, Earthline. Compelling stories about wildlife, ecology, conservation, and local history are told from the perspective of a teacher and...
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The Black & Brown Faces in America's Wild Places: Extraordinary African Americans Making Nature and the Environment a Part of Their Everyday Lives
by Dudley Edmondson Publisher Comments Dudley Edmondson, an African American wildlife photographer, believes it is critical for people of color to get involved in nature conservation. He sought out 20 other African Americans with deep connections to nature and asked them about their personal...
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Electric Earth: A Motor Overheating
by Will Jansen Publisher Comments The past 50 years of worldwide population growth and construction has changed the way the world works. Global warming, hurricanes and tornadoes are on the rise along with sea levels. Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are on the increase. Many say that...
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Global to Local
by Karel Klinka Publisher Comments Ecological Land Classification (ELC) refers to the description of land resources at a range of spatial resolutions (i.e. global to local) and for a range of purposes or values. The emerging science of ELC is in fact a very carefully integrated blend of...
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The Great Work: Our Way Into the Future
by Thomas Berry Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-234) and index....
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The Prairie Builders: Reconstructing America's Lost Grasslands (Scientists in the Field)
by Sneed B Collard Publisher Comments Barely a century ago a vast tallgrass prairie covered America's heartland. Bison, elk, coyotes, and bear roamed this wilderness. Hundreds of species of prairie plants supported an explosion of birds and insects, including hundreds of kinds of butterflies....
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Ecology of Eden : an Inquiry Into the Dream of Paradise and a New Vision of Our Role in Nature (98 Edition)
by Evan Eisenberg Publisher Comments "Dazzling . . . a prose epic." --"The Washington Post <BR>A mountain peak, a rolling pasture, a boulevard alive with sound and light--each of us carries, deep inside, a dream of paradise. In this magisterial contribution to the literature of...
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Moving Mountains: How One Woman and Her Community Won Justice from Big Coal
by Penny Loeb Publisher Comments Moving Mountains recounts the struggle of Trish Bragg and other ordinary West Virginians for fair treatment by the coal companies that dominate the local economies of southern West Virginia....
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Conservation of Wildlife Populations : Demography, Genetics, and Management (06 Edition)
by L Scott Mills Publisher Comments SubjectThe last two decades have generated an acute awareness of the need for science to drive wildlife policy and management. Much of wildlife conservation is to do with managing populations, and students and practitioners of today must have a good...
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Nature Never Stops Talking: The Wonderful Ingenuity of Nature
by Samuel J. Alibrando Publisher Comments From a newspaper column that unexpectedly gained popularity for its upbeat celebration of ingenuity in nature with a nod of respect to great intelligence in all great design. From 100 of the best bitesize articles celebrating Intelligent Design covering...
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