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Book General Technical Report RM

Download or read book General Technical Report RM written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The American West at Risk

    Book Details:
  • Author : Howard G. Wilshire
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2008-06-05
  • ISBN : 9780199722617
  • Pages : 640 pages

Download or read book The American West at Risk written by Howard G. Wilshire and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-06-05 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American West at Risk summarizes the dominant human-generated environmental challenges in the 11 contiguous arid western United States - America's legendary, even mythical, frontier. When discovered by European explorers and later settlers, the west boasted rich soils, bountiful fisheries, immense, dense forests, sparkling streams, untapped ore deposits, and oil bonanzas. It now faces depletion of many of these resources, and potentially serious threats to its few "renewable" resources. The importance of this story is that preserving lands has a central role for protecting air and water quality, and water supplies--and all support a healthy living environment. The idea that all life on earth is connected in a great chain of being, and that all life is connected to the physical earth in many obvious and subtle ways, is not some new-age fad, it is scientifically demonstrable. An understanding of earth processes, and the significance of their biological connections, is critical in shaping societal values so that national land use policies will conserve the earth and avoid the worst impacts of natural processes. These connections inevitably lead science into the murkier realms of political controversy and bureaucratic stasis. Most of the chapters in The American West at Risk focus on a human land use or activity that depletes resources and degrades environmental integrity of this resource-rich, but tender and slow-to-heal, western U.S. The activities include forest clearing for many purposes; farming and grazing; mining for aggregate, metals, and other materials; energy extraction and use; military training and weapons manufacturing and testing; road and utility transmission corridors; recreation; urbanization; and disposing of the wastes generated by everything that we do. We focus on how our land-degrading activities are connected to natural earth processes, which act to accelerate and spread the damages we inflict on the land. Visit www.theamericanwestatrisk.com to learn more about the book and its authors.

Book New Publications

Download or read book New Publications written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hardrock Mining

Download or read book Hardrock Mining written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Abandoned Mine Lands

Download or read book Abandoned Mine Lands written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purposes of this report are 1) to shed light on abandoned mining sites and their impacts on public lands; 2) to highlight the accomplishments of the BLM, the Forest Service, and project partners in addressing abandoned mine lands (AML) problems; and 3) to describe the outlook for future AML reclamation efforts. Examples throughout the report offer insight into the environmental, health, safety, and economic effects often associated with these sites and illustrate the lasting and acid mine drainage leaching from the positive impacts of reclamation activities on formerly mined lands.

Book 2000 RPA Assessment of Forest and Range Lands

Download or read book 2000 RPA Assessment of Forest and Range Lands written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Agriculture  Rural Development  Food and Drug Administration  and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2009

Download or read book Agriculture Rural Development Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2009 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 1310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Forestry Research West

Download or read book Forestry Research West written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mining in National Forests

Download or read book Mining in National Forests written by United States. Forest Service and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Research Attainment Report

Download or read book Research Attainment Report written by Rocky Mountain Research Station (Fort Collins, Colo.) and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ecosystem Disturbance and Wildlife Conservation in Western Grasslands

Download or read book Ecosystem Disturbance and Wildlife Conservation in Western Grasslands written by Deborah M. Finch and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1998-03 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews & synthesizes info. about the structure, function, & components of steppe & desert grassland ecosystems in the western U.S. with special emphasis on the ecological roles & requirements of wildlife species. It is designed to draw attention to some wildlife topics that have been particularly neglected for western grasslands, & represents a cross section of the papers orally presented at the symposium as well as some additional papers solicited afterwards. Those interested in sustaining the ecological health, productivity, & biological diversity of western grassland ecosystems will find this publication valuable.

Book Energy Education Resources

Download or read book Energy Education Resources written by Paula Altman and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1999-09 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides students, educators, & other information users with a list of generally available free or low-cost energy-related educational materials. Each entry includes the address, telephone number, & description of the organization & the energy-related materials available. Most of the entries also include Internet (Web) & electronic mail (E-Mail) addresses. Some of the organizations represented in this list take policy positions on certain energy issues & express them even in educational materials.

Book Sharing Ideas of the Path Taken

Download or read book Sharing Ideas of the Path Taken written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: