Download or read book Swamplands written by Edward Struzik and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world filled with breathtaking beauty, we have often overlooked the elusive magic of certain landscapes. A cloudy river flows into an Arctic wetland where sandhill cranes and muskoxen dwell. Further south, cypress branches hang low over dismal swamps. Places like these-collectively known as swamplands or peatlands-often go unnoticed for their ecological splendor. They are as globally significant as rainforests, yet, because of their reputation as wastelands, they are being systematically drained and degraded. Swamplands celebrates these wild places, as journalist Edward Struzik highlights the unappreciated struggle to save peatlands by scientists, conservationists, and landowners around the world. An ode to peaty landscapes in all their offbeat glory, the book is also a demand for awareness of the myriad threats they face. It inspires us to see the beauty and importance in these least likely of places. Our planet's survival might depend on it.
Download or read book In Search of Swampland written by Ralph W. Tiner and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Search of Swampland introduces readers to the ecology and natural beauty of the wetlands, one of our most important natural resources. It provides an overview of wetland ecology with emphasis on factors important to wetland identification and recognition. Designed for readers with little or no training in wetland science, this heavily illustrated field guide serves as a valuable resource for the scientist or amateur naturalist. (Midwest).
Download or read book Swampland written by S. R. Martin and published by Point. This book was released on 2000 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zac and Marvin admire Edie, the pretty new neighbor, but are wary of her strange-looking twin sisters who hang around the swamp.
Download or read book Southeast Missouri from Swampland to Farmland written by John C. Fisher and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the 20th century began, swamps with immense timber resources covered much of the Missouri Bootheel. After investors harvested the timber, the landscape became overgrown. The conversion of swampland to farmland began with small drainage projects but complete reclamation was made possible by a system of ditches dug by the Little River Drainage District--the largest in the U.S., excavating more earth than for the Panama Canal. Farming quickly took over. The devastation of Southern cotton fields by boll weevils in the early 1920s brought to the cooler Bootheel an influx of black and white sharecroppers and cotton became the principal crop. Conflict over New Deal subsidies to increase cotton prices by reducing production led to the 1939 Sharecropper Demonstration, foreshadowing civil rights protests three decades later.
Download or read book Battle Champions Swampland Slam written by Jack Carson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Titch Darwin and his Battle Champion crew are on the championship trail again! This time the fight takes them to deadly swamplands, and the team must work together to fight some of their fiercest opponents yet. Once again, Titch's trusty Mech - LoneStar - must compete in the ultimate test of man and machine. As every fight takes Titch nearer to finding out the truth about his missing father he must rise-up to the challenge and follow in his father's footsteps, fulfilling his destiny to be the ultimate Battle Champion.
Download or read book Swampland Flowers written by and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writings of the twelfth-century Chinese Zen master Ta Hui are as immediately accessible as those of any contemporary teacher, and this book, which introduced them to the English-speaking world in the 1970s, has become a modern classic—a regular feature of recommended reading lists for Zen centers across America, even though the book has become difficult to find. We are happy to make the book available again after more than a decade of scarcity. J. C. Cleary's translation is as noteworthy for its elegant simplicity as for its accuracy. He has culled from the voluminous writings of Ta Hui Tsung Kao in the Chi Yeuh Lu this selection of letters, sermons, and lectures, some running no longer than a page, which cover a variety of subjects ranging from concern over the illness of a friend's son to the tending of an ox. Ta Hui addresses his remarks mainly to people in lay life and not to his fellow monks. Thus the emphasis throughout is on ways in which those immersed in worldly occupations can nevertheless learn Zen and achieve the liberation promised by the Buddha. These texts, available in English only in this translation, come as a revelation for their lucid thinking and startling wisdom. The translator's essay on Chan (Chinese Zen) Buddhism and his short biography of Ta Hui place the texts in their proper historical perspective.
Download or read book Swampland Plants and Animals Coloring Book written by Ruth Soffer and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1997-05-31 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exciting tour of U.S. swamplands reveals river otters, wood turtles, swamp lily, Florida panther, snowy egrets, cottonmouth snake, and much more. 44 illustrations with captions.
Download or read book Swampland Sticker Picture written by Dianne Gaspas-Ettl and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the fascinating world of a swampland environment by applying 38 reusable sticker illustrations to a full-color backdrop depicting a water-logged mangrove swamp. Populate the area with life-like illustrations of an alligator, a green heron, great egret, zebra butterfly, American white pelican, and other swampland creatures—all identified.
Download or read book Swampland Flowers written by Zonggao and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The translator provides the text and historical context of the writings of the twelfth-century Chinese Zen master Ta Hui Tsung Kao in the Chi Yeuh Lu. Included are letters, sermons, and lectures, which cover a variety of subjects ranging from concern over the illness of a friend's son to the tending of an ox. Ta Hui addresses his remarks mainly to people in lay life and not to his fellow monks, emphasizing ways in which those immersed in worldly occupations can nevertheless learn Zen and achieve the liberation promised by the Buddha.
Download or read book Swamplands of the Soul written by James Hollis and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that the pursuit of happiness is futile, the Jungian perspective asserts that the goal of life is not in happiness, but in meaning which is real, rather than a fruitless ideal. This book shows how to find life's dignity by uncovering its deepest meaning and discovering errors made.
Download or read book Endsville written by S. R. Martin and published by Point. This book was released on 2000-03-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zac and his tribe of human refugees from the devastated cities of Australia and genetically-modified humans with fish genes must defend the last source of clean water from the hordes of cannibalistic mutants known as Cyclists.
Download or read book Swampland written by Brian E. Ableman and published by Children's Press(CT). This book was released on 1997 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the characteristics of the Okefenokee Swamp and the animals and plants that live there.
Download or read book Annual Report of the Board of Swamp Land Commissioners to the Legislature of the State of Louisiana written by Louisiana. Board of Swamp Land Commissioners and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book United States Swamp Land Laws written by United States. General Land Office and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Swamp Land State Road Commissioner of the State of Michigan for the Years written by Michigan. State Swamp Land Commissioner and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of Special Swamp Land Committee of the Thirty ninth General Assembly to the Fortieth General Assembly written by Missouri. House of Representatives. Special Committee on Swamp Land Drainage and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Swamp Peddlers written by Jason Vuic and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Florida has long been a beacon for retirees, but for many, the American dream of owning a home there was a fantasy. That changed in the 1950s, when the so-called "installment land sales industry" hawked billions of dollars of Florida residential property, sight unseen, to retiring northerners. For only $10 down and $10 a month, working-class pensioners could buy a piece of the Florida dream: a graded home site that would be waiting for them in a planned community when they were ready to build. The result was Cape Coral, Port St. Lucie, Deltona, Port Charlotte, Palm Coast, and Spring Hill, among many others—sprawling communities with no downtowns, little industry, and millions of residential lots. In The Swamp Peddlers, Jason Vuic tells the raucous tale of the sale of residential lots in postwar Florida. Initially selling cheap homes to retirees with disposable income, by the mid-1950s developers realized that they could make more money selling parcels of land on installment to their customers. These "swamp peddlers" completely transformed the landscape and demographics of Florida, devastating the state environmentally by felling forests, draining wetlands, digging canals, and chopping up at least one million acres into grid-like subdivisions crisscrossed by thousands of miles of roads. Generations of northerners moved to Florida cheaply, but at a huge price: high-pressure sales tactics begat fraud; poor urban planning begat sprawl; poorly-regulated development begat environmental destruction, culminating in the perfect storm of the 21st-century subprime mortgage crisis.
