Trees category: 526 books
White Pine
American History and the Tree That Made a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
The history of the ubiquitous pine tree is wrapped up with the history of early America—and in the hands of a gifted storyteller becomes a compelling read, almost an adventure story.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
The application of ionic liquids to biomass for producing biofuels and chemicals will be one of the hot research areas during the next decade due to the fascinating properties of these versatile group of solvents that allow them to dissolve lignocellulosic materials. The present text provides up-to-date...
Owning and Managing Forests
A Guide to Legal, Financial, and Practical Matters
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Owning and Managing Forests is both an accessible overview of the privileges, rights, and obligations that accompany forest ownership and a guidebook to help active forest owners and managers use laws to their advantage and avoid the pitfalls of expensive and exhausting litigation. The book is a revised,...
Petrified Forest National Park
A Wilderness Bound in Time
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Yellowstone, Yosemite, the Grand Canyon—a few American national parks enjoy amusement-park status, eclipsing many other beautiful and significant parks due to their heavy political support and spectacular sights. Visitors to Petrified Forest National Park in northeastern Arizona can escape from...
Découvrir la forêt de manière ludique
Activités pour enseignants de SVT, formateurs, classes vertes et éducation populaire (forêt équatoriale, tropicale et tempérée)
Language: French
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Activités pour professeurs des écoles, enseignants de SVT, formateurs, classes vertes et éducation populaire ( sur la forêt équatoriale, tropicale et tempérée)
Vous êtes professeur(e) des écoles, enseignant(e) ou formateur(rice) et vous souhaitez organiser des activités ludo-pédagogiques...
by Duane Ose
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
This book answers all the questions on dowsing, informing the reader as to why and how dowsing works. Moreover, it has the instructions to test oneself to become a dowser. Dowsing locates all objects that I refer to as targets, then to also measure the depths no matter how deep it is to the targets....
Woods & People
Putting Forests on the Map
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2010
It seems that forests have never been more in the news than they are today. The part played by the tropical forests in sustaining the world's climate is well understood, but they are in drastic decline. The British prehistoric forest was mostly destroyed thousands of years ago to make way for farming....
Insect Resistance Management
Biology, Economics, and Prediction
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2007
Insects, mites, and ticks have a long history of evolving resistance to pesticides, host-plant resistance, crop rotation, pathogens, and parasitoids. Insect resistance management (IRM) is the scientific approach to preventing or delaying pest evolution and its negative impacts on agriculture, public...
by H. Harold Hume
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index
CONTENTS
PART I.
Introduction. Botany.
Chapter I. Commercial and Ornamental Importance of the Pecan.
Chapter II. Native and Cultivated Range.
Chapter III. Pecan Botany.
PART II.
Varieties.
Chapter...
Alberi sapienti, antiche foreste
Come guardare, ascoltare e avere cura del bosco
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 24, 2018
«Se si sta dentro un bosco in posizione di ascolto, prima o poi si avverte, si intuisce la presenza di un flusso di energia che circola tra i rami, le foglie, le radici. Talvolta è un sussurro, altre volte strepiti e grida. È come se le piante parlassero tra loro.» Camminatore infaticabile e sensibilissimo...
by BodhaGuru Learning
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
This is a short picture story of a greedy monster who wanted to get the entire harvest of a hard-working farmer without doing any work. And how the clever farmer saves his harvest using his practical knowledge about the plants.
This story helps children to learn about the various edible parts of the...
Tropical Natural Fibre Composites
Properties, Manufacture and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
This book covers the different aspects of tropical natural fibre composites in areas such as properties, design and analysis, manufacturing techniques, material selection of kenaf, oil palm, sugar palm, pineapple leaf, coconut, sugarcane and banana based fibre composites. Important properties such...
Mimicking Nature's Fire
Restoring Fire-Prone Forests In The West
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
In Mimicking Nature's Fire, forest ecologists Stephen Arno and Carl Fiedler prespractical solutions to the pervasive problem of deteriorating forest conditions in western North America.
The Eight Master Lessons of Nature
What Nature Teaches Us About Living Well in the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2019
A riveting manifesto for the millions of people who long to forge a more vital, meaningful connection to the natural world to live a better, more fulfilling life
Looking around at the world today—a world of skyscrapers, super highways, melting ice caps, and rampant deforestation—it is easy...