Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See
A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Longleaf forests once covered 92 million acres from Texas to Maryland to Florida. These grand old-growth pines were the "alpha tree" of the largest forest ecosystem in North America and have come to define the southern forest. But logging, suppression of fire, destruction by landowners,...
by J.C. Jeremy Hobson
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
This book shows the reader how to perform all the tasks required of the modern gamekeeper, including how to rear and release game, and advises on many aspects of habitat improvement and conservation. It also covers important and sometimes controversial issues, such as public access on private land,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
The book gives a detailed description of the application of DSSAT in simulating crop and soil processes within various Agro-ecological zones in Africa. The book, an output of a series of 3 workshops, provides examples of the application of DSSAT models to simulate nitrogen applications, soil and water...
Keepers of the Trees
A Guide to Re-Greening North America: True Stories of a Tree Doctor, a Big Tree Hunter, an L.A. Tree Planter, a Plant Amnesty Pruner, and a Ninety-Eight-Year-Old Logger
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
Uplifting stories of fourteen people who have dedicated their lives to trees—beautifully illustrated with one hundred color photographs of tree keepers in action.
Across North America, writer and naturalist Ann Linnea found a diverse group of people with one thing in common: their love of trees....
National Parks and Protected Areas
Keystones to Conservation and Sustainable Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
National parks and protected areas offer a wealth of ecological and social contributions or services to humans and life on earth. This book describes the strengths of national parks and protected areas in different parts of Europe and North America and the challenges to the full realization of their...
The Governance of the Countryside
Property, Planning and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Conflicts over the conservation of biodiversity, changing patterns in land use, pollution, climate change, public access and increasing demands for food and energy security lead to the creation of policies designed to reconcile interests and promote society's objectives. This book examines the origins...
The Last Unicorn
A Search for One of Earth's Rarest Creatures
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
An award-winning author's quest to find and understand a creature as rare and enigmatic as any on Earth
In 1992, in a remote mountain range, a team of scientists discovered the remains of an unusual animal with exquisite long horns. It turned out to be a living species new to Western science--a...
Sacred Natural Sites
Conserving Nature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Sacred Natural Sites are the world's oldest protected places. This book focuses on a wide spread of both iconic and lesser known examples such as sacred groves of the Western Ghats (India), Sagarmatha /Chomolongma (Mt Everest, Nepal, Tibet - and China), the Golden Mountains of Altai (Russia), Holy...
by David R. Schiel, Michael S. Foster
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
The largest seaweed, giant kelp (Macrocystis) is the fastest growing and most prolific of all plants found on earth. Growing from the seafloor and extending along the ocean surface in lush canopies, giant kelp provides an extensive vertical habitat in a largely two-dimensional seascape. It is the...
The Curious Life of Krill
A Conservation Story from the Bottom of the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Krill-it's a familiar word that conjures oceans, whales, and swimming crustaceans. Scientists say they are one of most abundant animals on the planet. But when pressed, few people can accurately describe krill or explain their ecological importance. Antarctic krill have used their extraordinary adaptive...
Ungulate Management in Europe
Problems and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
This book considers a number of problems posed by ungulates and their management in Europe. Through a synthesis of the underlying biology and a comparison of the management techniques adopted in different countries, the book explores which management approaches seem effective - and in which circumstances....
by Peri Phillips McQuay
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 1995
My feet are practising their steps, gauging the slipperiness of wet lichen on rock and sounding each landing. As my stride shifts to a swing I realize I have a sharper sense of my place in the woods now. I am as taut and limber as a bow-string. I sense bears in the woods, weigh their threat and move...
Montana's Pioneer Naturalist
Morton J. Elrod
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
A naturalist on Montana’s academic frontier, passionate conservationist Morton J. Elrod was instrumental in establishing the Department of Biology at the University of Montana, as well as Glacier National Park and the National Bison Range. In Montana’s Pioneer Naturalist, the first in-depth assessment...
Texans on the Brink
Threatened and Endangered Animals
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
What good is a rattlesnake? What purpose do animals serve? All species play a vital role in their biological communities, and the removal of just one can have a noticeable and catastrophic ripple effect.
Yet social and political pressures frequently pit species conservation against economic...