Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
The Poetic Species
A Conversation with Edward O. Wilson and Robert Hass
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Provides a manifesto for activists in education and conservation—as Wilson and Hass explain how the close observation of nature, which is central to both poetry and science, can rouse the conservationist in all of us, the conversation becomes a powerful treatise on the necessity of achieving consilience...
by Karen Sisulak Binder
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
Anyone wanting to understand how Giant City State Park in rural Makanda earned its name need only hike on the Giant City Nature Trail. Here they walk through the park�s namesake rock formations, carved 20,000 years ago by the melting waters of a Pleistocene glacier that stopped a mere 1.5 miles from...
Walden Warming
Climate Change Comes to Thoreau's Woods
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
In his meticulous notes on the natural history of Concord, Massachusetts, Henry David Thoreau records the first open flowers of highbush blueberry on May 11, 1853. If he were to look for the first blueberry flowers in Concord today, mid-May would be too late. In the 160 years since Thoreau’s writings,...
Big, Wild, and Connected
Part 2: From the Central Appalachians to the Catskill Mountains
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
This E-ssential is a three-part series that covers John Davis's epic journey from Florida to Maine. In 2011, with support from the Wildlands Network, Davis traveled 7,600 miles in 10 months from Florida to Maine by foot, bicycle, skis, and canoe/kayak. His extensive travels were motivated by wanting...
The Sound of Mountain Water
The Changing American West
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
A book of timeless importance about the American West by a National Book Award– and Pulitzer Prize–winning author. The essays collected in this volume encompass memoir, nature conservation, history, geography, and literature. Delving into the post-World War II boom that brought the Rocky Mountain...
Mr. Hornaday's War
How a Peculiar Victorian Zookeeper Waged a Lonely Crusade for Wildlife That Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
He was complex, quirky, pugnacious, and difficult. He seemed to create enemies wherever he went, even among his friends. A fireplug of a man who stood only five feet eight inches in his stocking feet, he had an outsized ambition to make his mark on the world. And he did. William Temple Hornaday (1854-1937)...
Swamplife
People, Gators, and Mangroves Entangled in the Everglades
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Little in North America is wilder than the Florida Everglades—a landscape of frightening reptiles, exotic plants in profusion, swarms of mosquitoes, and unforgiving heat. And yet, even from the early days of taming the wilderness with clearing and drainage, the Everglades has been considered fragile,...
The Predator Paradox
Ending the War with Wolves, Bears, Cougars, and Coyotes
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
An expert in wildlife management tells the stories of those who are finding new ways for humans and mammalian predators to coexist.
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Stories of backyard bears and cat-eating coyotes are becoming increasingly common—even for people living in non-rural areas. Farmers anxious to protect their...
The Return of the Mexican Gray Wolf
Back to the Blue
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
The return of the Mexican gray wolf to Arizona's Blue Range in 1998 marked more than a victory for an endangered species. Long hated by ranchers, the gray wolf had been hunted to the brink of extinction until one woman took on the challenge of restoring it to its natural habitat.
Inspired by...
The Story of a Forest
Growth, Destruction and Renewal in the Upper Delaware Valley
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
The re-established forests of the Upper Delaware exist as a living reminder of centuries of both exploitation and good intentions. Emerging after the last glaciation, they were first modified by Native Americans to promote hunting and limited agriculture. The forests began to disappear as Europeans...
Birds as Useful Indicators of High Nature Value Farmlands
Using Species Distribution Models as a Tool for Monitoring the Health of Agro-ecosystems
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
This book helps to establish a simple framework to identify and use bird species as a bioindicator for high nature value (HNV) farmlands.
This book focuses on suitable methods for monitoring the HNV areas, and presents the results of several case studies. The chapters put forward ways to integrate...
by Shawn Thompson, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Kusasi is a three-hundred-pound male who could rip your arms and legs off like daisy petals if he wanted. Princess was taught sign language by a researcher and had a limited ability to combine vocabulary. . ..
For centuries the shaggy red orangutan lived in peaceful seclusion in the jungles...
Tracks and Shadows
Field Biology as Art
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Intellectually rich, intensely personal, and beautifully written, Tracks and Shadows is both an absorbing autobiography of a celebrated field biologist and a celebration of beauty in nature. Harry W. Greene, award-winning author of Snakes: The Evolution of Mystery in Nature, delves into the poetry...
by Lynn E. Barber
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
As oil was washing up on the shores of Louisiana, covering shorebirds and their nests and eggs after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, Lynn Barber decided to write this book to heighten awareness, not only of the plight of bird species that are declining in numbers every year, but also of the ways in...