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A Forester's Legacy: The Life of Joseph E. Ibberson
by Henry Gerhold  Publisher Comments The biography of a forester and philanthropist devoted to bringing the benefits of forests to all people. Despite humble beginnings, Joseph E. Ibberson pursued his vision persistently, working hard at an early age and saving his meager earnings to...
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Deep Jungle
by Fred Pearce Publisher Comments Deep Jungle is an exploration of the most alien and feared habitat on earth. Beginning with man’s earliest recorded adventures, Fred Pearce takes us high into the canopy—home to two-thirds of all the creatures on our planet. Pearce also...
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Two Paths Toward Sustainable Forests: Public Values in Canada and the United States
by Bruce Shindler Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-350) and index....
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Forests in Landscapes: Ecosystem Approaches to Sustainability (Earthscan Forestry Library)
by Jeffrey A Sayer Synopsis Recent innovations in Sustainable Forest Management and Ecosystem Approaches are resulting in forests increasingly being managed as part of the broader social-ecological systems in which they exist. Forests in Landscapes reviews changes that have...
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Requiem for Nature, C
by John Terborgh Publisher Comments For ecologist John Terborgh, Manu National Park in the rainforest of Peru is a second home; he has spent half of each of the past twenty-five years there conducting research. Like all parks, Manu is assumed to provide inviolate protection to nature. Yet...
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The Wildfire Reader: A Century of Failed Forest Policy
by George Wuerthner Publisher Comments Wildfires are an awe-inspiring natural phenomenon that <BR>have shaped North America's landscapes since the dawn <BR>of time. They are a force that we cannot really control, <BR>and thus understanding, appreciating, and learning to <...
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Life in the Treetops: Adventures of a Woman in Field Biology
by Margaret D Lowman Publisher Comments A pioneering scientist describes her challenge as a working wife, single parent, and field biologist studying forest treetops around the world. Illustrations....
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Mimicking Nature's Fire: Restoring Fire-Prone Forests in the West
by Stephen F Arno Publisher Comments The magnificent stands of old-growth trees that characterize the forests of western North America depend on periodic fires for their creation or survival. Deprived of that essential disturbance process eventually they die, leaving an overcrowded growth...
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Last Stands: A Journey Through North America's Vanishing Ancient Rainforests
by Larry Pynn Publisher Comments An award-winning environmental reporter plunges into coastal rainforests from California to Alaska to explore this unique ecosystem and the complex factors that threaten it....
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A Good Forest for Dying: The Tragic Death of a Young Man on the Front Lines of the Environmental Wars
by Patrick Beach Publisher Comments Early on a September morning in 1998, David "Gypsy" Chain and eight fellow Earth First! activists went into the redwood forests of Scotia, California. Their loosely organized plan to protest the destruction caused by the logging industry almost...
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Steward's Fork: A Sustainable Future for the Klamath Mountains
by James Agee Synopsis A compelling story of place, "Steward's Fork "explores northwest California's magnificent Klamath Mountains--a region that boasts a remarkable biodiversity, a terrain so rugged that significant landscape features are still being discovered there, and a...
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This Land: A Guide to National Forests of the Western United States
by Robert Mohlenbrock Publisher Comments Part armchair travelogue, part guide book, this projected three-volume series--divided into the western, central, and eastern United States--will introduce readers to all 155 national forests across the country. This Land is the only comprehensive field...
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The Burning Season: The Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest
by Andrew Revkin Publisher Comments "An admirable work...compelling." "A clear, informative account of the clash in the dark heart of the rain forest." -NEW YORK TIMES<BR> "In the rain forests of the western Amazon," writes author Andrew Revkin, "the threat of violent death hangs in...
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Where Mountains Are Nameless: Passion and Politics in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge
by John Waterman Publisher Comments The "compelling" (Seattle Times) story behind a most sacred piece of American wilderness. Adventurer Jonathan Waterman braves polar bears and frigid waters in a journey through the heart of the Alaskan wilds — and into the heated political...
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Lost Mountain
by Erik Reece 
Publisher Comments A groundbreaking work of literary nonfiction that exposes how radical strip mining is destroying one of America's most precious natural resources and the communities that depend on it. The mountains of Appalachia are home to one of the great forests of...
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George W. Bush's Healthy Forests
by Jacqueline Vaughn Publisher Comments Jacqueline Vaughn and Hanna J. Cortner detail Bush administration reframing of America's environmental debate, identifying players, events, and strategies that expedited a policy shift impacting public lands and long-standing avenues of public...
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Oregon Wild: Endangered Forest Wilderness
by Andy Kerr Publisher Comments Five million acres of unprotected roadless forest remain in Oregon, stretching from the rain-drenched shores of the Pacific and Coast range, across the snow-covered Cascades to the Blue Mountains, Wallowas, and Hells Canyon; from the Deschutes, John Day,...
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Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation Ofappalachia
by Erik Reece Publisher Comments A new form of strip mining has caused a state of emergency for the Appalachian wilderness and the communities that depend on it-a crisis compounded by issues of government neglect, corporate hubris, and class conflict. In this powerful call to arms, Erik...
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The Healing Power of Forests: The Philosophy Behind Restoring Earth's Balance with Native Trees
by Akira Miyawaki Publisher Comments The Healing Power of Forestsdescribes the successful techniques used to recreate depleted forests, whether near factory sites, parking lots, or even the Great Wall of China, on the basis of environmental studies. The book challenges us to plant 'native...
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A Road Runs Through It: Reviving Wild Places
by Thomas Reed Petersen
Publisher Comments When respected conservation biologists Michael Soulé and Reed Noss were asked to name three current policy issues most important to the re-wilding of North America, they answered in unison: "Roads, roads, and roads." The men weren't talking about...
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