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Download or read book Status and Trends of the Nation's Biological Resources written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Catherine E. Puckett Haecker
Publisher : Geological Survey (USGS)
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Total Pages : 482 pages
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Download or read book Status and Trends of the Nation's Biological Resources, V. 1 and 2 written by Catherine E. Puckett Haecker and published by Geological Survey (USGS). This book was released on 1998 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assesses the health of the United States plants, animals, and ecosystems.
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Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309072646
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Future Roles and Opportunities for the U.S. Geological Survey written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-03-15 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has adapted to the changing political, economic, and technical state of the nation and the world since it was established in the late nineteenth century. Over a period of more than 120 years, the USGS has evolved from a small group of scientists who collected data and provided guidance on how to parcel, manage, and use the public lands of the West to an agency comprised of thousands of scientists who conduct research and assessment activities on complex scientific issues at scales ranging from the local to the global. The USGS will no doubt continue to evolve and adapt to meet changing national needs. In fact, the recent integration of the National Biological Service and parts of the U.S. Bureau of Mines into the USGS presents an ideal opportunity to examine the agency's vision, mission, role, and scientific opportunities as the organization begins the early years of the twenty-first century. The USGS recognized the need to adapt to changing demands when it asked the National Research Council (NRC) to undertake this study. The NRC formed a multidisciplinary committee of 16 experts to address issues related to the future roles, challenges, and opportunities of the agency.
Author : Central Great Lakes Geologic Mapping Coalition
Publisher : Geological Survey (USGS)
ISBN 13 : 9780607926705
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (267 download)
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Author : Miriam Horn
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039324735X
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)
Download or read book Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman: Conservation Heroes of the American Heartland written by Miriam Horn and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a feature-length documentary on the Discovery channel narrated by Tom Brokaw. “Lush, gorgeously written…A profoundly hopeful book.” —Tina Rosenberg, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award A Kirkus Best Book of 2016 Many of the men and women doing today’s most consequential environmental work—restoring America’s grasslands, wildlife, soil, rivers, wetlands, and oceans—would not call themselves environmentalists; they would be too uneasy with the connotations of that word. What drives them is their deep love of the land: the iconic terrain where explorers and cowboys, pioneers and riverboat captains forged the American identity. They feel a moral responsibility to preserve this heritage and natural wealth, to ensure that their families and communities will continue to thrive. Unfolding as a journey down the Mississippi River, Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman tells the stories of five representatives of this stewardship movement: a Montana rancher, a Kansas farmer, a Mississippi riverman, a Louisiana shrimper, and a Gulf fisherman. In exploring their work and family histories and the essential geographies they protect, Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman challenges pervasive and powerful myths about American and environmental values.
Author : Yvonne Baskin
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1610911008
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)
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Author : Philip Stewart
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1926692985
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (266 download)
Download or read book Vascular Plants and Paleobotany written by Philip Stewart and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an important collection of new research that sheds light on many aspects of the evolutionary patterns of gymnosperms, angiosperms, and pteridophtes. The book includes a complete chloroplast genome sequence study and describes a method that induces the systemic silencing of target genes in the Ceratopteris gametophyte. It presents a study of how herbicide treatments reduce fern densities and create the establishment of regeneration. It also analyzes an EST dataset from G. biloba that reveals genes potentially unique to gymnosperms and includes a study of episodic rate acceleration in the ancestral grasses.
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521000758
Total Pages : 628 pages
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Download or read book Climate Change Impacts on the United States written by and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Scott Weidensaul
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429931922
Total Pages : 557 pages
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Download or read book Return to Wild America written by Scott Weidensaul and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1953, birding guru Roger Tory Peterson and noted British naturalist James Fisher set out on what became a legendary journey-a one hundred day trek over 30,000 miles around North America. They traveled from Newfoundland to Florida, deep into the heart of Mexico, through the Southwest, the Pacific Northwest, and into Alaska's Pribilof Islands. Two years later, Wild America, their classic account of the trip, was published. On the eve of that book's fiftieth anniversary, naturalist Scott Weidensaul retraces Peterson and Fisher's steps to tell the story of wild America today. How has the continent's natural landscape changed over the past fifty years? How have the wildlife, the rivers, and the rugged, untouched terrain fared? The journey takes Weidensaul to the coastal communities of Newfoundland, where he examines the devastating impact of the Atlantic cod fishery's collapse on the ecosystem; to Florida, where he charts the virtual extinction of the great wading bird colonies that Peterson and Fisher once documented; to the Mexican tropics of Xilitla, which have become a growing center of ecotourism since Fisher and Peterson's exposition. And perhaps most surprising of all, Weidensaul finds that much of what Peterson and Fisher discovered remains untouched by the industrial developments of the last fifty years. Poised to become a classic in its own right, Return to Wild America is a sweeping survey of the natural soul of North America today.
Author : American Bird Conservancy
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307481387
Total Pages : 647 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The American Bird Conservancy Guide to the 500 Most Important Bird Areas in the written by American Bird Conservancy and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-04-13 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Bird Conservancy Guide to the 500 Most Important Bird Areas in the United States offers both bird enthusiasts and conservationists specialized information never before compiled in a single comprehensive volume. This expert resource organizes the United States into 36 ornithologically distinct bird regions, then identifies and describes the 500 sites within these regions. Each site entry includes ornithological highlights, ownership information, a description of habitats and land use, a guide to which species one can expect to find, conservation issues, and visitor information.
Author : Calvin R. Fremling
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299202941
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Immortal River written by Calvin R. Fremling and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2004-12-31 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging and well-illustrated primer to the Upper Mississippi River presents the basic natural and human history of this magnificent waterway. Immortal River is written for the educated lay-person who would like to know more about the river's history and the forces that shape as well as threaten it today. It melds complex information from the fields of geology, ecology, geography, anthropology, and history into a readable, chronological story that spans some 500 million years of the earth's history. Like the Mississippi itself, Immortal River often leaves the main channel to explore the river's backwaters, floodplain, and drainage basin. The book's focus is the Upper Mississippi, from Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Cairo, Illinois. But it also includes information about the river's headwaters in northern Minnesota and about the Lower Mississippi from Cairo south to the river's mouth ninety miles below New Orleans. It offers an understanding of the basic geology underlying the river's landscapes, ecology, environmental problems, and grandeur.
Author : Bert Metz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521807692
Total Pages : 1046 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Climate Change 2001: Mitigation written by Bert Metz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-07-12 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some issues addressed in this Working Group III volume are mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions, managing biological carbon reservoirs, geo-engineering, costing methods, and decision-making frameworks.
Author : Osha Gray Davidson
Publisher : Public Affairs
ISBN 13 : 0786728833
Total Pages : 290 pages
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Download or read book Fire In The Turtle House written by Osha Gray Davidson and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2008-11-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sea turtles have existed since the time of the dinosaurs. But now, suddenly, the turtles are dying, ravaged by a mysterious plague that some biologists consider the most serious epidemic now raging in the natural world. Perhaps most important, sea turtles aren't the only marine creatures falling prey to deadly epidemics. Over the last few decades diseases have been burning through nearshore waters around the world with unprecedented lethality. What is happening to the sea turtle, and how can it be stopped? In this fascinating scientific detective story, Osha Gray Davidson tracks the fervent efforts of the extraordinary and often quirky scientists, marine biologists, veterinarians, and others racing against the clock to unravel a complicated biological and environmental puzzle and keep the turtles from extinction. He follows the fates of particular turtles, revealing their surprisingly distinct personalities and why they inspire an almost spiritual devotion in the humans who come to know them. He also explores through vivid historical anecdotes and examples the history of man's relationship to the sea, opening a window onto the role played by humans in the increasing number of marine die-offs and extinctions. Beautifully written, intellectually provocative, Fire in the Turtle House reveals how emerging diseases wreaking havoc in the global ocean pose an enormous, direct threat to humanity. This is science journalism at its best.
Author : Mary Christina Wood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107469244
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Nature's Trust written by Mary Christina Wood and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental law has failed us all. As ecosystems collapse across the globe and the climate crisis intensifies, environmental agencies worldwide use their authority to permit the very harm that they are supposed to prevent. Growing numbers of citizens now realize they must act before it is too late. This book exposes what is wrong with environmental law and offers transformational change based on the public trust doctrine. An ancient and enduring principle, the trust doctrine asserts public property rights to crucial resources. Its core logic compels government, as trustee, to protect natural inheritance such as air and water for all humanity. Propelled by populist impulses and democratic imperatives, the public trust surfaces at epic times in history as a manifest human right. But until now it has lacked the precision necessary for citizens, government employees, legislators, and judges to fully safeguard the natural resources we rely on for survival and prosperity. The Nature's Trust approach empowers citizens worldwide to protect their inalienable ecological rights for generations to come.
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Total Pages : 48 pages
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Download or read book Preview of Status and Trends of the Nation's Biological Resources written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists the contents of the full two-volume report, and gives the text of the chapter on the Mississippi River from vol. 1.
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