Saving the Georgia Coast

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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820357367
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis Saving the Georgia Coast by : Paul Bolster

Download or read book Saving the Georgia Coast written by Paul Bolster and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2020-03-15 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years ago Georgia chose how it would use the natural environment of its coast. The General Assembly passed the Coastal Marshlands Protection Act in 1970, and, surprisingly, Lester Maddox, a governor who had built a conservative reputation by defending segregation, signed it into law. With this book, Paul Bolster narrates the politics of the times and brings to life the political leaders and the coalition of advocates who led Georgia to pass the most comprehensive protection of marshlands along the Atlantic seaboard. Saving the Georgia Coast brings to light the intriguing and colorful characters who formed that coalition: wealthy island owners, hunters and fishermen, people who made their home on the coast, courageous political leaders, garden-club members, clean-water protectors, and journalists. It explores how that political coalition came together behind governmental leaders and traces the origins of environmental organizations that continue to impact policy today. Saving the Georgia Coast enhances the reader’s understanding of the many steps it takes for a bill to become a law. Bolster’s account reviews state policy toward the coast today, giving the reader an opportunity to compare yesterday to the present. Current demands on the coastal environment are different—including spaceports and sea rise from climate change—but the political pressures to generate new wealth and new jobs, or to perch a home on the edge of the sea, are no different than fifty years ago. Saving the Georgia Coast spotlights the past and present decisions needed to balance human desires with the limits of what nature has to offer.

Life Traces of the Georgia Coast

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253006090
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis Life Traces of the Georgia Coast by : Anthony J. Martin

Download or read book Life Traces of the Georgia Coast written by Anthony J. Martin and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-14 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered what left behind those prints and tracks on the seashore, or what made those marks or dug those holes in the dunes? Life Traces of the Georgia Coast is an up-close look at these traces of life and the animals and plants that made them. It tells about how the tracemakers lived and how they interacted with their environments. This is a book about ichnology (the study of such traces) and a wonderful way to learn about the behavior of organisms, living and long extinct. Life Traces presents an overview of the traces left by modern animals and plants in this biologically rich region; shows how life traces relate to the environments, natural history, and behaviors of their tracemakers; and applies that knowledge toward a better understanding of the fossilized traces that ancient life left in the geologic record. Augmented by illustrations of traces made by both ancient and modern organisms, the book shows how ancient trace fossils directly relate to modern traces and tracemakers, among them, insects, grasses, crabs, shorebirds, alligators, and sea turtles. The result is an aesthetically appealing and scientifically grounded book that will serve as source both for scientists and for anyone interested in the natural history of the Georgia coast.

Living with the Georgia Shore

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Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822312190
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Book Synopsis Living with the Georgia Shore by : Tonya D. Clayton

Download or read book Living with the Georgia Shore written by Tonya D. Clayton and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wide sandy beaches, quiet maritime forests, and vast Spartina marshes of the natural Georgia coast create a most spectacular, albeit gentle, Southern beauty. Casual visitors and longtime residents alike have been charmed by this special place. Living with the Georgia Shore provides an essential reference and guide for residents, visitors, developers, planners, and all who are concerned with the conditions and future of Georgia's coastal zone. Recounting the human and natural history of the islands, the authors look in particular at the phenomenon of coastal erosion and the implications of various responses to this process. In Georgia, as elsewhere in the United States, the future of the shore is in doubt as recreational and residential development demands increase. This book provides guidelines for living with the shore, as opposed to simply living on it. The former requires planning and a wise choice of property or house site. The latter ignores the potential hazards unique to coastal life and may make inadequate allowance for the dramatic changes that can occur on any sandy ocean shore. Living with the Georgia Shore includes an introduction to each of the Georgia isles, an overview of federal and state coastal land-use regulations, pointers on buying and building at the shore, a hurricane preparation checklist, a history of recent hurricanes in Georgia, an extensive annotated bibliography, and a guide to government agencies and private groups involved in issues of coastal development.

Ghosts of the Georgia Coast

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Publisher : Pineapple Press Inc
ISBN 13 : 1561642657
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (616 download)

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Book Synopsis Ghosts of the Georgia Coast by : Don Farrant

Download or read book Ghosts of the Georgia Coast written by Don Farrant and published by Pineapple Press Inc. This book was released on 2002 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, you'll find plenty of evidence that the supernatural is alive in the Golden Isles. Crumbling slave cabins, plantation homes and grand mansions, ancient forts, even a hospital that once cared for the five hundred slaves of Retreat Plantation -- all have their own aura, created by those long since dead. A silent Indian couple wanders, looking with pleading eyes to anyone who can help find something precious lost long ago. The ghost of a lonely woman still haunts the theater where she killed herself. Two men grapple with swords in a graveyard, replaying a scene from their lives again and again. -- A woman visiting an old inn experiences deja vu when she is transported to an elegant party that took place there a century before. The ghost of a young polo player killed in a bizarre horseback riding accident strides silently through the place that was his last destination on earth. These stories of restless souls, heartbroken lovers, skin-walkers, and protective spirits will give you a case of the creeps. Keep the lights on!

Georgia's Coast

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)

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Book Synopsis Georgia's Coast by : Georgia. Governor's Advisory Council on Coastal Zone Management

Download or read book Georgia's Coast written by Georgia. Governor's Advisory Council on Coastal Zone Management and published by . This book was released on 1977* with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Ecological Survey of the Coastal Region of Georgia

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)

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Book Synopsis An Ecological Survey of the Coastal Region of Georgia by : Albert Sydney Johnson

Download or read book An Ecological Survey of the Coastal Region of Georgia written by Albert Sydney Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The World of the Salt Marsh

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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820343846
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis The World of the Salt Marsh by : Charles Seabrook

Download or read book The World of the Salt Marsh written by Charles Seabrook and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World of the Salt Marsh is a wide-ranging exploration of the southeastern coast—its natural history, its people and their way of life, and the historic and ongoing threats to its ecological survival. Focusing on areas from Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, to Cape Canaveral, Florida, Charles Seabrook examines the ecological importance of the salt marsh, calling it “a biological factory without equal.” Twice-daily tides carry in a supply of nutrients that nourish vast meadows of spartina (Spartina alterniflora)—a crucial habitat for creatures ranging from tiny marine invertebrates to wading birds. The meadows provide vital nurseries for 80 percent of the seafood species, including oysters, crabs, shrimp, and a variety of finfish, and they are invaluable for storm protection, erosion prevention, and pollution filtration. Seabrook is also concerned with the plight of the people who make their living from the coast’s bounty and who carry on its unique culture. Among them are Charlie Phillips, a fishmonger whose livelihood is threatened by development in McIntosh County, Georgia, and Vera Manigault of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, a basket maker of Gullah-Geechee descent, who says that the sweetgrass needed to make her culturally significant wares is becoming scarcer. For all of the biodiversity and cultural history of the salt marshes, many still view them as vast wastelands to be drained, diked, or “improved” for development into highways and subdivisions. If people can better understand and appreciate these ecosystems, Seabrook contends, they are more likely to join the growing chorus of scientists, conservationists, fishermen, and coastal visitors and residents calling for protection of these truly amazing places.

And the Coastlands Wait

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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820357200
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis And the Coastlands Wait by : Reid W. Harris

Download or read book And the Coastlands Wait written by Reid W. Harris and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A broad-based coalition of conservative southern politicians, countercultural activists, environmental scientists, sportsmen, devout Christians, garden clubs in Atlanta, and others came together to push the Coastal Marshlands Protection Act of 1970 through the Georgia state legislature. The law was a first-in-the-nation bill to save the marshes of a state from mining and aggressive development and was a political watershed that reflected the changing nature of the state. It set a foundation that would lead to the thoughtful use of the state’s coastal resources still relevant today. And the Coastlands Wait is the history of this legislative act, as told by St. Simons lawyer and leader of the coalition, Reid Harris. Harris served as head of the environmental section of Governor Jimmy Carter’s Goals for Georgia program and later as chairman of the governor’s State Environmental Council. The coastlands coalition he led backed a groundbreaking act that, when instated, set up a permitting process to control development and to protect five hundred thousand acres of precious Georgia marshland. That coalition did not survive for long and is now seen as an unusual moment in the history of conservation, when allies as deeply diverse as conservative governor Lester Maddox and Atlanta liberals stood together.

What Nature Suffers to Groe

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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820324593
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (245 download)

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Book Synopsis What Nature Suffers to Groe by : Mart A. Stewart

Download or read book What Nature Suffers to Groe written by Mart A. Stewart and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What Nature Suffers to Groe" explores the mutually transforming relationship between environment and human culture on the Georgia coastal plain between 1680 and 1920. Each of the successive communities on the coast--the philanthropic and imperialistic experiment of the Georgia Trustees, the plantation culture of rice and sea island cotton planters and their slaves, and the postbellum society of wage-earning freedmen, lumbermen, vacationing industrialists, truck farmers, river engineers, and New South promoters--developed unique relationships with the environment, which in turn created unique landscapes. The core landscape of this long history was the plantation landscape, which persisted long after its economic foundation had begun to erode. The heart of this study examines the connection between power relations and different perceptions and uses of the environment by masters and slaves on lowcountry plantations--and how these differing habits of land use created different but interlocking landscapes. Nature also has agency in this story; some landscapes worked and some did not. Mart A. Stewart argues that the creation of both individual and collective livelihoods was the consequence not only of economic and social interactions but also of changing environmental ones, and that even the best adaptations required constant negotiation between culture and nature. In response to a question of perennial interest to historians of the South, Stewart also argues that a "sense of place" grew out of these negotiations and that, at least on the coastal plain, the "South" as a place changed in meaning several times.

Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture

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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820351881
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture by : Paul S. Sutter

Download or read book Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture written by Paul S. Sutter and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essay collection exploring the history of 5,000-year relationship between human culture and nature on the Georgia coast. One of the unique features of the Georgia coast today is its thorough conservation. At first glance, it seems to be a place where nature reigns. But another distinctive feature of the coast is its deep and diverse human history. Indeed, few places that seem so natural hide so much human history. In Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture, editors Paul S. Sutter and Paul M. Pressly have brought together work from leading historians as well as environmental writers and activists that explores how nature and culture have coexisted and interacted across five millennia of human history along the Georgia coast, as well as how those interactions have shaped the coast as we know it today. The essays in this volume examine how successive communities of Native Americans, Spanish missionaries, British imperialists and settlers, planters, enslaved Africans, lumbermen, pulp and paper industrialists, vacationing northerners, Gullah-Geechee, nature writers, environmental activists, and many others developed distinctive relationships with the environment and produced well-defined coastal landscapes. Together these histories suggest that contemporary efforts to preserve and protect the Georgia coast must be as respectful of the rich and multifaceted history of the coast as they are of natural landscapes, many of them restored, that now define so much of the region. Contributors: William Boyd, S. Max Edelson, Edda L. Fields-Black, Christopher J. Manganiello, Tiya Miles, Janisse Ray, Mart A. Stewart, Drew A. Swanson, David Hurst Thomas, and Albert G. Way.

Marsh Mud and Mummichogs

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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820347671
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis Marsh Mud and Mummichogs by : Evelyn B. Sherr

Download or read book Marsh Mud and Mummichogs written by Evelyn B. Sherr and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging and curiosity-rousing book blends scientific fact with a timely conservation message and anecdotes of a family's encounters with nature. It is an invitingly readable guided tour of the flora, fauna, and landscape of the distinctive Georgia coast.

Saving Savannah

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1400078164
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Saving Savannah by : Jacqueline Jones

Download or read book Saving Savannah written by Jacqueline Jones and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-11-03 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this masterful portrait of life in Savannah before, during, and after the Civil War, prize-winning historian Jacqueline Jones transports readers to the balmy, raucous streets of that fabled Southern port city. Here is a subtle and rich social history that weaves together stories of the everyday lives of blacks and whites, rich and poor, men and women from all walks of life confronting the transformations that would alter their city forever. Deeply researched and vividly written, Saving Savannah is an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the Civil War years.

A Guide to the Georgia Coast

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Publisher : Conservancy
ISBN 13 : 9780961428402
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (284 download)

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Book Synopsis A Guide to the Georgia Coast by : Georgia Conservancy

Download or read book A Guide to the Georgia Coast written by Georgia Conservancy and published by Conservancy. This book was released on 1989-12-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Living Beaches of Georgia and the Carolinas

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Publisher : Pineapple Press Inc
ISBN 13 : 1561644900
Total Pages : 179 pages
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Book Synopsis Living Beaches of Georgia and the Carolinas by : Blair E. Witherington

Download or read book Living Beaches of Georgia and the Carolinas written by Blair E. Witherington and published by Pineapple Press Inc. This book was released on 2011 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Living Beaches of Georgia and the Carolinas" satisfies a beachcomber's curiosity within a comprehensive yet easily browsed guide covering beach processes, plants, animals, minerals, and manmade objects. Full-color photos. Maps.

The First Conservationists?

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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781530265275
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (652 download)

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Book Synopsis The First Conservationists? by : Buddy Sullivan

Download or read book The First Conservationists? written by Buddy Sullivan and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-28 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of the barrier islands and smaller islands along the Georgia coast are protected and undeveloped. Although not generally recognized by many, the conservation of much of coastal Georgia began in the years following the Civil War when six of the eight major sea islands were purchased by wealthy Northerners, including the famous Jekyll Island Club. The islands passed to succeeding generations of private owners, many in the same families that acquired them from 1866 on, until the modern-day conservation movement for the coast began in the 1950s. Because of the protected private ownership of the islands through the years, they are now managed and administered by federal or state entities or private foundations. This monograph analyzes this evolution from private ownership to protected status of the islands, as well as the overall influence of Northern wealth on the economy and landscape of tidewater Georgia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Coastal historian Buddy Sullivan argues that while the postwar owners of the islands were largely unaware of "conservation" in the modern sense, their appreciation and ecological awareness of their properties precipitated a conscious desire to protect them and prevent their acquisition and development by large-scale resort and residential interests.

Gullah Folktales from the Georgia Coast

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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820343552
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis Gullah Folktales from the Georgia Coast by : Charles Colcock Jones

Download or read book Gullah Folktales from the Georgia Coast written by Charles Colcock Jones and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1888, Charles Colcock Jones Jr. published the first collection of folk narratives from the Gullah-speaking people of the South Atlantic coast, tales he heard black servants exchange on his family's rice and cotton plantation. It has been out of print and largely unavailable until now. Jones saw the stories as a coastal variation of Joel Chandler Harris's inland dialect tales and sought to preserve their unique language and character. Through Jones' rendering of the sound and syntax of nineteenth-century Gullah, the lively stories describe the adventures and mishaps of such characters as "Buh Rabbit," "Buh Ban-Yad Rooster," and other animals. The tales range from the humorous to the instructional and include stories of the "sperits," Daddy Jupiter's "vision," a dying bullfrog's last wish, and others about how "buh rabbit gained sense" and "why the turkey buzzard won't eat crabs."

A Guide to the Georgia Coast

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Publisher : Longstreet Press
ISBN 13 : 9781563521188
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)

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Book Synopsis A Guide to the Georgia Coast by : Georgia Conservancy

Download or read book A Guide to the Georgia Coast written by Georgia Conservancy and published by Longstreet Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: