Download or read book Sowing the Forest written by William Balée and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2023-05-23 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how, over centuries, Amazonian people and their cultures have interacted with rainforests William Balée is a world-renowned expert on the cultural and historical ecology of the Amazon basin. His new collection, Sowing the Forest, is a companion volume to the award-winning Cultural Forests of the Amazon, published in 2013. Sowing the Forest engages in depth with how, over centuries, Amazonian people and their cultures have interacted with rainforests, making the landscapes of palm forests and other kinds of forests, and how these and related forests have fed back into the vocabulary and behavior of current indigenous occupants of the remotest parts of the vast hinterlands. The book is divided into two parts. Part 1, “Substrate of Intentionality,” comprises chapters on historical ecology, indigenous palm forests, plant names in Amazonia, the origins of the Amazonian plantain, and the unknown “Dark Earth people” of thousands of years ago and their landscaping. Together these chapters illustrate the phenomenon of feedback between culture and environment. In Part 2, “Scope of Transformation,” Balée lays out his theory of landscape transformation, which he divides into two rubrics—primary landscape transformation and secondary landscape transformation—and for which he provides examples and various specific effects. One chapter compares environmental and social interrelationships in an Orang Asli group in Malaysia and the Ka’apor people of eastern Amazonian Brazil, and another chapter covers loss of language and culture in the Bolivian Amazon. A final chapter addresses the controversial topic of monumentality in the rainforest. Balée concludes by emphasizing the common thread in Amazonian historical ecology: the long-term phenomenon of encouraging diversity for its own sake, not just for economic reasons.
Download or read book Seeds of Forest Broadleaves written by Bolesław Suszka and published by Editions Quae. This book was released on 1996 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Forest Magic written by Sarah Grindler and published by Little Explorers. This book was released on 2021-03-08 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully illustrated, compact, interactive nature guide to exploring the forest for young readers. What do you notice when you walk in the forest? Different types of trees, plants, and mushrooms? Maybe you hear a squirrel chattering or birds singing. Can you feel all the different kinds of moss? And look there! Hidden animal homes and interesting bugs. With this compact non-fiction guide, young readers will be equipped to seek out, identify, and appreciate the woodland magic that exists all around them. Featuring rich vocabulary words like nurse log, lichen, and sapling, this beautifully illustrated book is the ideal companion for little forest explorers. Incorporating all five senses and encouraging imaginative play, it even includes pixies and fairies (pixie cup lichen and fairy slipper wildflowers)! Forest Magic will be the book you reach for on the way out the door to explore your own backyard. There's so much to see in a forest. What will you discover?
Download or read book Eating Dirt written by Charlotte Gill and published by Greystone Books Ltd. This book was released on 2011 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlotte Gill spent twenty years working as a tree planter in Canadian forests. In this book, she examines the environmental impact of logging and celebrates the value of forests from a perspective of some one whose work caught them between environmentalists and loggers.
Download or read book The Forest Tree Planter s Manual written by Minnesota State Forestry Association and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Woody Plant Seed Manual written by United States. Forest Service and published by Forest Service. This book was released on 2008 with total page 1240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Forest in the Trees written by Connie McLennan and published by Arbordale Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It's common knowledge that coast redwoods are tall, tall trees. In fact, they are the tallest trees in the world. What most people don't know is that there is a whole other forest growing high in the canopy of a redwood forest. This adaptation of The House That Jack Built climbs into this secret, hidden habitat full of all kinds of plants and animals that call this forest home."--Publisher's description.
Download or read book The National Forest Manual written by U.S. Forest Service and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture and instructions to forest officers relating to claims, settlement, and administrative sites on national forest lands.
Download or read book Annual Forest Administration Report written by Bombay (India : State). Forest Dept and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plant the Tiny Seed written by Christie Matheson and published by Greenwillow Books. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you make a garden grow? In this playful companion to the popular Tap the Magic Tree and Touch the Brightest Star, you will see how tiny seeds bloom into beautiful flowers. And by tapping, clapping, waving, and more, young readers can join in the action! Christie Matheson masterfully combines the wonder of the natural world with the interactivity of reading. Beautiful collage-and-watercolor art follows the seed through its entire life cycle, as it grows into a zinnia in a garden full of buzzing bees, curious hummingbirds, and colorful butterflies. Children engage with the book as they wiggle their fingers to water the seeds, clap to make the sun shine after rain, and shoo away a hungry snail. Appropriate for even the youngest child, Plant the Tiny Seed is never the same book twice—no matter how many times you read it! And for curious young nature lovers, a page of facts about seeds, flowers, and the insects and animals featured in the book is included at the end. Fans of Press Here, Eric Carle, and Lois Ehlert will find their next favorite book in Plant the Tiny Seed.
Download or read book How to Make a Forest Garden written by Patrick Whitefield and published by Permanent Publications. This book was released on 2002 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A good introduction to permaculture. Create your own perennial food-producing garden based on the model of a natural woodland with its many levels of growth from ground covers to tree canopies. A forest garden can be tailored to fit any space, from a tiny urban back yard to a large rural garden.
Download or read book Report of the Chief of the Forest Service written by United States. Forest Service and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Indian Forester written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sowing Seeds in the City written by Elizabeth Hodges Snyder and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A majority of the world’s population lives in cities. Urban areas have largely been disconnected from the processes associated with producing food. A broad range of community efforts have emerged to reconnect people in urban areas to fresh foods with expected benefits for public health. These efforts can be found in cities across the country and cross both economic and ethnic lines. They have been led by the non- scientific community and are best characterized as social movements. Expansion of agriculture to non- traditional areas including community or kitchen gardens in urban or peri- urban environments has the potential to provide a range of ecosystem services as well as reduce stressors on non- urban environments. These services/benefits include improved public health, improved human nutrition and diet, large-scale production of renewable resources, increased food security with less resilience on traditional agricultural landscapes and seascapes, enhanced ecosystem function in urban areas, and increased public appreciation for and understanding of ecosystem services.
Download or read book Useful and Ornamental Planting written by George Sinclair and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tropical Forest Seed written by Lars H. Schmidt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-04-20 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book deals with all practical issues in connection with practical tree seed procurement and supply in tropical countries, with necessary background information and documentation of applied methods. It starts with seed collection and follows the processes of the standard fates of seeds. The text covers simple hands-on methods and more advanced methods. A synthesis and discussion of recent findings in seed research is given.
Download or read book Monthly Bulletin of Agriculture Intelligence and of Plant diseases written by International Institute of Agriculture. AGRICULTURAL INTELLIGENCE AND PLANT DISEASES, BUREAU OF and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 2082 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
