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To Save the Land and People

Author : Chad Montrie
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807862630
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book To Save the Land and People written by Chad Montrie and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-11-20 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surface coal mining has had a dramatic impact on the Appalachian economy and ecology since World War II, exacerbating the region's chronic unemployment and destroying much of its natural environment. Here, Chad Montrie examines the twentieth-century movement to outlaw surface mining in Appalachia, tracing popular opposition to the industry from its inception through the growth of a militant movement that engaged in acts of civil disobedience and industrial sabotage. Both comprehensive and comparative, To Save the Land and People chronicles the story of surface mining opposition in the whole region, from Pennsylvania to Alabama. Though many accounts of environmental activism focus on middle-class suburbanites and emphasize national events, the campaign to abolish strip mining was primarily a movement of farmers and working people, originating at the local and state levels. Its history underscores the significant role of common people and grassroots efforts in the American environmental movement. This book also contributes to a long-running debate about American values by revealing how veneration for small, private properties has shaped the political consciousness of strip mining opponents.

Trust in the Land

Author : Beth Rose Middleton Manning
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816529280
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Trust in the Land written by Beth Rose Middleton Manning and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Earth says, God has placed me here. The Earth says that God tells me to take care of the Indians on this earth; the Earth says to the Indians that stop on the Earth, feed them right. . . . God says feed the Indians upon the earth.” —Cayuse Chief Young Chief, Walla Walla Council of 1855 America has always been Indian land. Historically and culturally, Native Americans have had a strong appreciation for the land and what it offers. After continually struggling to hold on to their land and losing millions of acres, Native Americans still have a strong and ongoing relationship to their homelands. The land holds spiritual value and offers a way of life through fishing, farming, and hunting. It remains essential—not only for subsistence but also for cultural continuity—that Native Americans regain rights to land they were promised. Beth Rose Middleton examines new and innovative ideas concerning Native land conservancies, providing advice on land trusts, collaborations, and conservation groups. Increasingly, tribes are working to protect their access to culturally important lands by collaborating with Native and non- Native conservation movements. By using private conservation partnerships to reacquire lost land, tribes can ensure the health and sustainability of vital natural resources. In particular, tribal governments are using conservation easements and land trusts to reclaim rights to lost acreage. Through the use of these and other private conservation tools, tribes are able to protect or in some cases buy back the land that was never sold but rather was taken from them. Trust in the Land sets into motion a new wave of ideas concerning land conservation. This informative book will appeal to Native and non-Native individuals and organizations interested in protecting the land as well as environmentalists and government agencies.

Save Our Land, Save Our Towns

Author : Thomas Hylton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Save Our Land, Save Our Towns written by Thomas Hylton and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talks about what we can do to preserve and nurture communities in Pennsylvania.

Saving the Land

Author : Robert H. Freilich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saving the Land written by Robert H. Freilich and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

I Will Save My Land

Author : Rinacina
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789350469187
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (691 download)

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Download or read book I Will Save My Land written by Rinacina and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Age range 6+ Mati pesters her grandmother and father for her own plot of land in the big field. When she does get it, she works hard. And then she hears that a company wants to make a coal mine in their village -- the enormous black pit that will eat up all their lands, like it has in the next village.

A Sand County Almanac

Author : Aldo Leopold
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0197500269
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book A Sand County Almanac written by Aldo Leopold and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-05 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as "full of beauty and vigor and bite," A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with a call for changing our understanding of land management.

Use the Land and Save the Soil

Author : United States. Soil Conservation Service
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Use the Land and Save the Soil written by United States. Soil Conservation Service and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Save This Land

Author : Nachiketa Das
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 1638326347
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (383 download)

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Download or read book Save This Land written by Nachiketa Das and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2021-04-17 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Save This Land discusses some topical issues of the environment. In each of the six chapters, a topic is chosen, the problem is analysed, the dangers are described and the solutions are presented with an appeal to all for proaction to save this land. The imminent desertification caused by deforestation of land, amply served by the monsoon, must be averted by the construction of hundreds of thousands of micro-dams. The threat of sea level rise needs to be combated by undertaking a massive project of Coastal Works. The Ganga could remain perennial only with significant reforestation and strengthening of lateral and terminal moraines in the Himalaya. “When rivers die, civilisations die,” and this land faces an existential crisis because of the rivers choked to death by a vast deposition of sediments that need to be excavated for their revival. The Hirakud Dam on the Mahanadi must be revived too. Bodies of good clean drinking water are the heritage of humanity and they are getting polluted. The water quality is paramount and must be maintained.

Land-Saving Action

Author : Russell Brenneman
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 9780933280229
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Land-Saving Action written by Russell Brenneman and published by Island Press. This book was released on 1984-03-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Land-Saving Action presents 35 articles from 29 of the foremost practitioners of land conservation nationwide. Case studies, detailed references, and a complete index make this volume unsurpassed in its usefulness to everyone who is concerned with saving land.

Saving Spaces

Author : John H. Sprinkle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781138888678
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (886 download)

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Download or read book Saving Spaces written by John H. Sprinkle and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saving Spaces offers an historical overview of the struggle to conserve both individual parcels of land and entire landscapes from destruction in the United States. John Sprinkle, Jr. identifies the ways in which the identification, evaluation, and stewardship of selected buildings and landscapes reflect contemporary American cultural values. Detailed case studies bring the text to life, highlighting various conservation strategies and suggesting the opportunities, challenges, and consequences of each. Balancing close analyses with a broader introduction to some of the key issues of the field, Saving Spaces is ideal for students and instructors of historic preservation.

Saving Nature's Legacy

Author : Reed F. Noss
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 9781559632485
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (324 download)

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Download or read book Saving Nature's Legacy written by Reed F. Noss and published by Island Press. This book was released on 1994-04-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by two leading conservation biologists, Saving Nature's Legacy is a thorough and readable introduction to issues of land management and conservation biology. It presents a broad, land-based approach to biodiversity conservation in the United States, with the authors succinctly translating principles, techniques, and findings of the ecological sciences into an accessible and practical plan for action. After laying the groundwork for biodiversity conservation -- what biodiversity is, why it is important, its status in North America -- Noss and Cooperrider consider the strengths and limitations of past and current approaches to land management. They then present the framework for a bold new strategy, with explicit guidelines on: inventorying biodiversity selecting areas for protection designing regional and continental reserve networks establishing monitoring programs setting priorities for getting the job done Throughout the volume, the authors provide in-depth assessments of what must be done to protect and restore the full spectrum of native biodiversity to the North American continent.

Cows Save the Planet

Author : Judith D. Schwartz
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603584331
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Cows Save the Planet written by Judith D. Schwartz and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Cows Save the Planet, journalist Judith D. Schwartz looks at soil as a crucible for our many overlapping environmental, economic, and social crises. Schwartz reveals that for many of these problems—climate change, desertification, biodiversity loss, droughts, floods, wildfires, rural poverty, malnutrition, and obesity—there are positive, alternative scenarios to the degradation and devastation we face. In each case, our ability to turn these crises into opportunities depends on how we treat the soil. Drawing on the work of thinkers and doers, renegade scientists and institutional whistleblowers from around the world, Schwartz challenges much of the conventional thinking about global warming and other problems. For example, land can suffer from undergrazing as well as overgrazing, since certain landscapes, such as grasslands, require the disturbance from livestock to thrive. Regarding climate, when we focus on carbon dioxide, we neglect the central role of water in soil—"green water"—in temperature regulation. And much of the carbon dioxide that burdens the atmosphere is not the result of fuel emissions, but from agriculture; returning carbon to the soil not only reduces carbon dioxide levels but also enhances soil fertility. Cows Save the Planet is at once a primer on soil's pivotal role in our ecology and economy, a call to action, and an antidote to the despair that environmental news so often leaves us with.

Saving Quetico Superior

Author : R. Newell Searle
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873511407
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Saving Quetico Superior written by R. Newell Searle and published by Minnesota Historical Society Press. This book was released on 1977-01-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encompassing the Boundary Waters Canoe Area of Superior National Forest, Voyageurs National Park, and Grand Portage National Monument in Minnesota and Quetico Provincial Park in Ontario, the Quetico-Superior is the only region of its kind in the U.S. and Canada. This book tells the story of the long campaign to secure and preserve it for posterity and also illustrates the development of an American idea -- wilderness preservation.

Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life

Author : Edward O. Wilson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1631490834
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life written by Edward O. Wilson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An audacious and concrete proposal…Half-Earth completes the 86-year-old Wilson’s valedictory trilogy on the human animal and our place on the planet." —Jedediah Purdy, New Republic In his most urgent book to date, Pulitzer Prize–winning author and world-renowned biologist Edward O. Wilson states that in order to stave off the mass extinction of species, including our own, we must move swiftly to preserve the biodiversity of our planet. In this "visionary blueprint for saving the planet" (Stephen Greenblatt), Half-Earth argues that the situation facing us is too large to be solved piecemeal and proposes a solution commensurate with the magnitude of the problem: dedicate fully half the surface of the Earth to nature. Identifying actual regions of the planet that can still be reclaimed—such as the California redwood forest, the Amazon River basin, and grasslands of the Serengeti, among others—Wilson puts aside the prevailing pessimism of our times and "speaks with a humane eloquence which calls to us all" (Oliver Sacks).

Our Remaining Land

Author : United States. Soil Conservation Service
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Our Remaining Land written by United States. Soil Conservation Service and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Land We Live on

Author : Jill C. Wheeler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780562390030
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Land We Live on written by Jill C. Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Land Conservation Through Public/Private Partnerships

Author : Eve Endicott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Land Conservation Through Public/Private Partnerships written by Eve Endicott and published by . This book was released on 1993-05 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Land Conservation Through Public/Private Partnerships demonstrates the broad array of circumstances under which cooperation between the public and private sectors can significantly improve land conservation efforts. This book is essential reading for anyone concerned with the preservation of our rapidly diminishing open landscapes.