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Felling the Ancient Oaks

Author : John Martin Robinson
Publisher : Aurum Press
ISBN 13 : 9781845136703
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Felling the Ancient Oaks written by John Martin Robinson and published by Aurum Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning visual record of England's most spectacular and scenic country estates that were broken up for sale and lost for ever. A sweeping country estate, with grand house and spectacular gardens and park, would not be the first impression of a visitor to modern suburban Watford. But well into the twentieth century that was exactly what was there – the magnificence of the Cassiobury estate, of which only a modest municipal park survives. Underneath the expanse of Rutland Water lies the once splendid Normanton estate, while Deepdene in Surrey is now memorialised only by an ugly office block. Fortunately, at least photographs live on to remind us of how the landscape looked before death duties, mining subsidence and sometimes the plain impecuniousness of the black sheep in the family took their toll and forced the break-up of all too many historic landed estates. In this elegiac book, a successor to Aurum’s Lost Victorian Britain, John Robinson surveys 20 of the most egregious losses, from Costessy in East Anglia to Lathom in Lancashire, and shows how the deer park, the home farm, the parterre and the cottage garden gave way to the power station, the motorway and the caravan park.

The Ancient Oaks of America

Author : William Trelease
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (917 download)

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Download or read book The Ancient Oaks of America written by William Trelease and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Ancient Oaks of America

Author : William Trelease
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ancient Oaks of America written by William Trelease and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sustainable Forestry in Southern Sweden

Author : Kristina Blennow
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9781560221333
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Forestry in Southern Sweden written by Kristina Blennow and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2006-05-22 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest findings about the environmental, social, and economic impact of sustainable forestry Forestry is one of the most important foundations of the Scandinavian economies. Sustainable Forestry in Southern Sweden: The SUFOR Research Project closely reviews the findings from the eight-year research program first launched in 1997 that searched for ways to maintain sustainable forestry in the region. Respected scholars and experts discuss ways to bridge the chasm separating the world of research with the world of trade and industry. Biodiversity, the impact of humans, environmental conditions, and other facets of sustainability are all presented and discussed in detail. Sustainable Forestry in Southern Sweden begins with an overview of Swedish forestry and the sustainability debate in Sweden. The full range of human impact is examined in detail with an eye on biodiversity issues. Other research includes the effect of deer browsing on forest development, the importance of root distribution, nutrient sustainability, fresh strategies for long-term forest sustainability, active risk management, and important policy issues. The book is extensively referenced and includes several tables to ensure clarity of data. Sustainable Forestry in Southern Sweden discusses in detail: the background of the SUFOR program the impact of lower fire-frequency on forest biodiversity transforming research results into useful knowledge for forest practitioners balancing costs and benefits related to deer and moose population density effects of adverse environmental conditions on sensitive trees nutrient availability in plant productivity applicability of mixed stands in sustainable forestry weathering rates of forest soils analysis of sustainability conditions from environmental, social, and economic standpoints multi-objective forest landscape projection models risk management in sustainable forestry moving from policy to implementation of sustainability and biodiversity policy implications resulting from the SUFOR program Sustainable Forestry in Southern Sweden is enlightening, informative reading for scholars, students, and practitioners in land management issues.

Cassiobury

Author : Paul Rabbitts
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445638800
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Cassiobury written by Paul Rabbitts and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pictorial history of Watford’s greatest park, from estate to public space.

The Oak Papers

Author : James Canton
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063037971
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book The Oak Papers written by James Canton and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A profound meditation on the human need for connection with nature, as one man seeks solace beneath the bows of an ancient oak tree."—Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees "James Canton knows so much, writes so well and understands so deeply about the true forest magic and the important place these trees have in it. Knowledge and joy."— Sara Maitland, author of How to Be Alone Joining the ranks of The Hidden Life of Trees and H is for Hawk, an evocative memoir and ode to one of the most majestic living things on earth—the oak tree—probing the mysteries of nature and the healing role it plays in our lives. Thrown into turmoil by the end of his long-term relationship, Professor James Canton spent two years meditating [PA1]beneath the welcoming shelter of the massive 800-year-old Honywood Oak tree in North Essex, England. While considering the direction of his own life, he began to contemplate the existence of this colossus tree. Standing in England for centuries, the oak would have been a sapling when the Magna Carta was signed in 1215. In this beautiful, transportive book, Canton tells the story of this tree in its ecological, spiritual, literary, and historical contexts, using it as a prism to see his own life and human history. The Oak Papers is a reflection on change and transformation, and the role nature has played in sustaining and redeeming us. Canton examines our long-standing dependency on the oak, and how that has developed and morphed into myth and legend. We no longer need these sturdy trees to build our houses and boats, to fuel our fires, or to grind their acorns into flour in times of famine. What purpose, then, do they serve in our world today? Are these miracles of nature no longer necessary to our lives? What can they offer us? Taking inspiration from the literary world—Henry David Thoreau, Leo Tolstoy, Katherine Basford’s Green Man, Thomas Hardy, William Shakespeare, and others—Canton ponders the wondrous magic of nature and the threats its faces, from human development to climate change, implores us to act as responsible stewards to conserve what is precious, and reminds us of the lessons we can learn from the world around us, if only we slow down enough to listen.

Trees and Woodlands

Author : George Peterken
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472987004
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book Trees and Woodlands written by George Peterken and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-16 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features almost 300 colour photographs and brings together more than 60 years of research by a leading voice in British woodland ecology. Trees define woodland. They provide a complex, multi-layered habitat for a great range of wildlife, yet they are wildlife themselves, reacting to their circumstances and each other. Woodlands are important to people, supplying timber, food and fuel, accumulating carbon, and offering places of refuge and refreshment. But they are also under threat: some stand in the way of 'progress' and all are becoming increasingly vulnerable to neglect, disease and climate change. Trees and Woodlands brings together decades of research to explore the ecology, nature conservation and wider cultural value of our native trees and shrubs, and the various ways they have combined as woodland. Incorporating personal experiences from 60 years as a forest ecologist, Peterken describes the long history of use and management; how this has influenced woodland wildlife and our art, beliefs and social attitudes. He concludes that most woods should be managed, their timber and small wood being put to good use, but recognises that this is all part of a larger question: the future of ourselves. Containing nearly 300 photographs, and interspersed with box texts describing the history and ecology of representative woods across Britain, this is a commentary on trees, woodlands and our relationship with them from one of our most highly regarded forest ecologists.

On the Grampian Hills. Grouse and Ptarmigan Shooting, Deer Stalking, Salmon and Trout Fishing. And Other Sketches

Author : Frederick Feild Whitehurst
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385401917
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (854 download)

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Download or read book On the Grampian Hills. Grouse and Ptarmigan Shooting, Deer Stalking, Salmon and Trout Fishing. And Other Sketches written by Frederick Feild Whitehurst and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-05 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

On the Grampian Hills

Author : Frederick Feild Whitehurst
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book On the Grampian Hills written by Frederick Feild Whitehurst and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Long, Long Life of Trees

Author : Fiona J. Stafford
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300207336
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Long, Long Life of Trees written by Fiona J. Stafford and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiona Stafford offers intimate, detailed explorations of seventeen common trees, from ash and apple to pine, oak, cypress, and willow. Stafford discusses practical uses of wood past and present, tree diseases and environmental threats, and trees' potential contributions toward slowing global climate change

Harper's Young People

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 948 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Harper's Young People written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nature

Author : Peter Coates
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745676898
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Nature written by Peter Coates and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Nature' is a deceptively simple and ahistorical term, suggestingintrinsic, unchanging reality. Yet nature has a history too, bothin terms of human attitudes and human impacts. Coates outlines themajor understandings of 'nature' in the western world sinceclassical times, from nature as higher authority to its more recentmeaning of threatened physical space and life forms. Unlike many others, this book places the history of attitudes tonature within the story of human-induced changes in the materialenvironment. And few others take a supranational perspective, orcross the divides between historical eras. A distinctive unifying theme is Coates's interest in how 'green'writers over the last thirty years have interpreted our pastdealings with nature, specifically their efforts to diagnose theroots of contemporary ecological problems and their search forancestors. He concludes with a discussion of the future of naturein the context of developments such as the 'new' ecology, globalwarming, advances in genetic engineering and research on animalbehaviour. Assuming no previous knowledge, Nature provides the reader with anaccessible synthesis and introduction to some of environmentalhistory's central features and debates, confirming its status asone of the most enthralling current pursuits within historicalstudies. This will be essential reading for second-year undergraduates andabove in cultural history and environmental history, as well as tothe general reader interested in environmental issues.

Lost Mansions

Author : J. Raven
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137520779
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Lost Mansions written by J. Raven and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-29 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative volume stimulates debate about lost 'heritage' by examining the history of the hundreds of great houses demolished in Britain and Ireland in the twentieth century. Seven lively essays debate our understanding of what is meant by loss and how it relates to popular conceptions of the great house.

A Legacy of Ancient Oaks

Author : Mark Frith
Publisher : Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
ISBN 13 : 9781842466674
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (666 download)

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Download or read book A Legacy of Ancient Oaks written by Mark Frith and published by Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. This book was released on 2019-02-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautiful book is a celebration of the mighty oak, through the passion and vision of artist Mark Frith. Mark has drawn large scale portraits of 22 of Britain's oldest living oaks, with exceptional detail conveyed in these intricate graphite works, bringing the ancient features of these majestic individuals to life on the page. Growing up in the Gloucestershire countryside, Mark enjoyed a childhood experiencing the natural world and in particular developed a huge closeness to a local ancient character - the Great Oak at Nibley Green. Mark would return to this tree in 2010 as the first of his series of oak drawings, commissioned by the publisher, poet, philanthropist and planter of trees Felix Dennis. These large-scale drawings measuring 1.7 m wide took Mark three and a half years to complete and were finished just before Felix Dennis's death in 2014. Following Felix Dennis's wishes, his estate bequeathed 10 of the drawings to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.This stunning book is the ideal gift for art and tree lovers alike, and a fitting dedication to these ancient individuals. I hope that in some modest way these drawings express man's profound relationship with the natural world, and, if it has one, something of the soul of the ancient oak tree.Mark Frith

The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual

Author : John D. Morgenstern
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1949979091
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual written by John D. Morgenstern and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 3 features a special forum on “Eliot and Green Modernism,” edited by Julia E. Daniel, as well as a special forum titled “First Readings of the Eliot–Hale Archive,” edited by John Whittier-Ferguson.

The remains of John Briggs

Author : John Briggs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The remains of John Briggs written by John Briggs and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Trees in Towns and Cities

Author : Mark Johnston
Publisher : Windgather Press
ISBN 13 : 1909686654
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Trees in Towns and Cities written by Mark Johnston and published by Windgather Press. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book on the history of trees in Britain’s towns and cities and the people who have planted and cared for them. It is a highly readable and authoritative account of the trees in our urban landscapes from the Romans to the present day, including public parks, private gardens, streets, cemeteries and many other open spaces. It charts how our appreciation of urban trees and woodland has evolved into our modern understanding of the many environmental, economic and social benefits of our urban forests. A description is also given of the various threats to these trees over the centuries, such as pollution damage during the Industrial Revolution and the recent ravages of Dutch elm disease. Central and local government initiatives are examined together with the contribution of civic and amenity societies. However, this historical account is not just a catalogue of significant events but gives a deeper analysis by exploring fundamental issues such as who owned those treed landscapes, why they were created and who had access to them. The book concludes with the fascinating story of how trees have contributed to efforts to improve urban conditions through various ‘visions of urban green’ such as the model villages, garden cities, garden suburbs and the new towns. Studies in garden and landscape history have often been preoccupied with those belonging to the rich and powerful. This book focuses particularly on working people and the extent to which they have been able to enjoy urban trees and greenspace. It will appeal to a general readership, especially those with an interest in garden history, heritage landscapes and the natural and built environment. Its meticulous referencing will also ensure it is much appreciated by students and academics pursuing further reading and research. It is written by an internationally renowned arboriculturist who combines a passion for trees with a sound understanding of British social and cultural history.