Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
Cape Cod National Seashore
The First 50 Years
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
When Pres. John F. Kennedy established the Cape Cod National Seashore in 1961, it was acclaimed as the �finest victory ever recorded for the cause of conservation in New England.� When erosion and overdevelopment threatened the Cape, the idea of a national seashore took hold, forever protecting this...
Big Muddy Blues
True Tales and Twisted Politics Along Lewis and Clark's Missouri River
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
America's Missouri River may be the nation's longest and most historically significant river, encompassing many of America's natural wonders between Missouri and Montana, draining almost 600,000 square miles in ten states and part of Canada, and, after Lewis and Clark's expedition 200 years ago, opening...
Along the Divide
Walking the Wild Spine of Scotland
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
Chris Townsend embarks on a 700-mile walk along the spine of Scotland, the line of high ground where fallen rain runs either west to the Atlantic or east to the North Sea. Walking before the Independence Referendum of 2014, and writing after the EU Referendum of 2016, he reflects on: nature and history,...
by Dr. Rob Norman, Gene Gallant
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
The Ocala National Forest, founded on November 24, 1908, by Pres. Theodore Roosevelt, is the oldest national forest in the eastern continental United States. The forest is one of Central Florida�s last remaining expanses of forested lands with magnificent palms, towering live oaks, and the largest...
by Lori Jill Smith, Jane Banks Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
The story of Tennessee's state parks began more than 80 years ago when New Deal agencies worked to rebuild portions of Tennessee's eroded landscape. Along with these conservation measures, the state's early parks were created through the development of recreational areas. The Tennessee Valley Authority...
by Terrence J. Winschel
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Vicksburg National Military Park was established by Congress to "commemorate the campaign, siege and defense of Vicksburg," which many consider the most decisive campaign of the Civil War. The battlefield at Vicksburg is one of the largest and most heavily visited of the nation's historic sites. Beginning...
In the Kingdom of Gorillas
The Quest to Save Rwanda's Mountain Gorillas
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
When Bill Weber and Amy Vedder arrived in Rwanda to study mountain gorillas with Dian Fossey, the gorilla population was teetering toward extinction. Poaching was rampant, but it was loss of habitat that most endangered the gorillas. Weber and Vedder realized that the gorillas were doomed unless something...
Catch and Release
The Enduring Yet Vulnerable Horseshoe Crab
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
The unexpected and fascinating interspecies relationship between humans and horseshoe crabs.
Horseshoe crabs are considered both a prehistoric and indicator species. They have not changed in tens of millions of years and provide useful data to scientists who monitor the health of the environment....
Spare the Birds!
George Bird Grinnell and the First Audubon Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
In 1887, a year after founding the Audubon Society, explorer and conservationist George Bird Grinnell launched Audubon Magazine. The magazine constituted one of the first efforts to preserve bird species decimated by the women’s hat trade, hunting, and loss of habitat. Within two years, however, for...
Drifting into Darien
A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Janisse Ray was a babe in arms when a boat of her father’s construction cracked open and went down in the mighty Altamaha River. Tucked in a life preserver, she washed onto a sandbar as the craft sank from view. That first baptism began a lifelong relationship with a stunning and powerful river...
by Archibald Rutledge
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Archibald Rutledge’s suspenseful story “The Egret’s Plumes” is a cautionary tale exalting the virtues of good sportsmanship, conservation of the natural world, and the universality of parental instincts. Fleeing the relentless plume hunters of their native Florida, a pair of exquisite snowy...
by Eugene H. Ware
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Located on a seven-mile peninsula on the shores of Lake Erie in Erie, Pennsylvania, Presque Isle State Park attracts four million visitors each year. With its designation in 1921, Presque Isle became the second state park in Pennsylvania. From this beginning, the citizens of Erie and surrounding areas...
by Robert A. Long
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
The status of many carnivore populations is of growing concern to scientists and conservationists, making the need for data pertaining to carnivore distribution, abundance, and habitat use ever more pressing. Recdevelopments in “noninvasive” research techniques—those that minimize disturbance...
Marine Reserves
A Guide to Science, Design, and Use
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Marine Reserves represents an invaluable guide for fishery managers and marine protected area managers in creating and implementing effective marine reserves, and an accessible reference for environmentalists and others concerned with the conservation of marine resources. It will also be useful in...