Download or read book The Natural History of Puget Sound Country written by Arthur R. Kruckeberg and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award Bounded on the east by the crest of the Cascade Range and on the west by the lofty east flank of the Olympic Mountains, Puget Sound terrain includes every imaginable topograhic variety. This thoughtful and eloquent natural history of the Puget Sound region begins with a discussion of how the ice ages and vulcanism shaped the land and then examines the natural attributes of the region--flora and fauna, climate, special habitats, life histories of key organisms--as they pertain to the functioning ecosystem. Mankind's effects upon the natural environment are a pervasive theme of the book. Kruckeberg looks at both positive and negative aspects of human interaction with nature in the Puget basin. By probing the interconnectedness of all natural aspects of one region, Kruckeberg illustrates ecological principles at work and gives us a basis for wise decision-making. The Natural History of Puget Sound Country is a comprehensive reference, invaluable for all citizens of the Northwest, as well as for conservationists, biologists, foresters, fisheries and wildlife personnel, urban planners, and environmental consultants everywhere. Lavishly illustrated with over three hundred photographs and drawings, it is much more than a beautiful book. It is a guide to our future.
Download or read book Homewaters written by David B. Williams and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2021-04-24 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not far from Seattle skyscrapers live 150-year-old clams, more than 250 species of fish, and underwater kelp forests as complex as any terrestrial ecosystem. For millennia, vibrant Coast Salish communities have lived beside these waters dense with nutrient-rich foods, with cultures intertwined through exchanges across the waterways. Transformed by settlement and resource extraction, Puget Sound and its future health now depend on a better understanding of the region’s ecological complexities. Focusing on the area south of Port Townsend and between the Cascade and Olympic mountains, Williams uncovers human and natural histories in, on, and around the Sound. In conversations with archaeologists, biologists, and tribal authorities, Williams traces how generations of humans have interacted with such species as geoducks, salmon, orcas, rockfish, and herring. He sheds light on how warfare shaped development and how people have moved across this maritime highway, in canoes, the mosquito fleet, and today’s ferry system. The book also takes an unflinching look at how the Sound’s ecosystems have suffered from human behavior, including pollution, habitat destruction, and the effects of climate change. Witty, graceful, and deeply informed, Homewaters weaves history and science into a fascinating and hopeful narrative, one that will introduce newcomers to the astonishing life that inhabits the Sound and offers longtime residents new insight into and appreciation of the waters they call home. A Michael J. Repass Book
Download or read book A History of the Puget Sound Country written by William Farrand Prosser and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A History of the Puget Sound Country written by William Farrand Prosser and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Download or read book A History of the Puget Sound Country Its Resources Its Commerce and Its People written by William Farrand Prosser and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... son and one daughter have blessed this union: John Boies Wing and Clara Louise Wing. CHARLES WALD. This popular and efficient official in one of the Uncle Sam's most important branches of the public service is of Norwegian ancestry and a son of Olaf Wald and Marie Rogstad, who were both natives of the land of fiords and the midnight sun. Seven children were born to these parents. Of these Charles was born while his parents resided near Waco, Texas, May 22, 1872, and he attended the public school of that city, and on the removal of his parents to Seattle, Washington, completed his education in the city high school in 1889. In December of the same year he entered the Seattle postoffice as a substitute in the carriers' department, and on April 1, 1890, was made a regular carrier. In April, 1894, he was transferred to the office of box clerk, and in November, 1896, was placed in the city distributing department. While engaged in the performance of the duties of the last named position the Spanish war broke out, and on May 3, 1898, he enlisted as a private in Company K, Washington Volunteers. Immediately after the organization of the company in the Vancouver barracks he was detailed from the company to the band as a musician, and as such he went with the troops to Manila. He was there from the breaking out of hostilities between the Americans and the Filipinos and served twenty-three months, taking part in all the engagements of his company, including Santa Ana Pasig and Morong. He received an honorable discharge, and on his return to Seattle was appointed, January 1, 1900, to the superintendence' of the city delivery of the postoffice, which is the position he is filling at the present time with so much credit to himself and to the entire...
Download or read book A Naturalist s Eye written by Janet Partlow and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of seasonal essays on the natural history of the Puget Sound in the Pacific Northwest. Owls and mushrooms, hawks and caterpillars fly & crawl vividly through these pages, bringing to life the beauty and diversity of the author's place of birth
Download or read book A History of the Puget Sound Country Its Resources Its Commerce and Its People With Some Reference to Discoveries and Explorations in North America written by William Farrand Prosser and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prosser paints a comprehensive portrait of the Puget Sound country, covering everything from its natural resources to its pioneering history. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in Pacific Northwest history and culture. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book A History of the Puget Sound Country Its Resources Its Commerce and Its People Vol 1 written by William Farrand Prosser and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of the Puget Sound Country, Its Resources, Its Commerce and Its People, Vol. 1: With Some Reference to Discoveries and Explorations in North America From the Time of Christopher Columbus Down to That of George Vancouver in 1792, When the Beauty, Richness and Vast Commercial Advantages of This Region Were First Made Known to the World Willapa Bay, to the Pacific Ocean. This area includes the counties of Lewis, Thurston, Pierce, King, Snohomish, Skagit, Whatcom, San Juan, Island, Clallam, Jefferson, Kitsap, Mason, Chehalis and Pacific. This dis trict is about two hundred miles in length from north to south, and from one hundred to one hundred and fifty miles in width from east to west. The summit of the Cascade Mountains forms its eastern, and the Pacific Ocean its western boundary. The Cascade range through the states of Oregon and Washington is a continuation of the Sierra Nevada range of California. This range is a wild, rugged and mas sive chain of mountains, having an average height of about five thou sand feet, whose higher peaks are far above the line of perpetual snow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Making and Unmaking of Puget Sound written by Gary C. Howard and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Puget Sound is a complex fjord-estuary system in Washington State that is connected to the Pacific Ocean by the Juan de Fuca Strait and surrounded by several large population centers. The watershed is enormous, covering nearly 43,000 square kilometers with thousands of rivers and streams. Geological forces, volcanos, Ice Ages, and changes in sea levels make the Sound a biologically dynamic and fascinating environment, as well as a productive ecosystem. Human activity has also influenced the Sound. Humans built several major cities, such as Seattle and Tacoma, have dramatically affected the Puget Sound. This book describes the natural history and evolution of Puget Sound over the last 100 million years through the present and into the future. Key Features Summarizes a complex geological, geographical, and ecological history Reviews how the Puget Sound has changed and will likely change in the future Examines the different roles of various drivers of the Sound’s ecosystem function Includes the role of humans—both first people and modern populations. Explores Puget Sound as an example of general bay ecological and environmental issues
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Download or read book We are Puget Sound written by David L. Workman and published by Braided River. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Puget Sound is a magnificent and intricate estuary, the very core of life in Western Washington. Yet it's also a place of broader significance: rivers rush from the Cascade and Olympic mountains and Canada's coastal ranges through varied watersheds to feed the Sound, which forms the southern portion of a complex, international ecosystem known as the Salish Sea. A rich, life-sustaining home shared by two countries, as well as 50-plus Native American Tribes and First Nations, the Salish Sea is also a huge economic engine, with outdoor recreation and commercial shellfish harvesting alone worth $10.2 billion. But this spectacular inland sea is suffering. Pollution and habitat loss, human population growth, ocean acidification, climate change, and toxins from wastewater and storm runoff present formidable challenges. We Are Puget Sound amplifies the voices and ideas behind saving Puget Sound, and it will help engage and inspire citizens around the region to join together to preserve its ecosystem and the livelihoods that depend on it.
Download or read book Native Seattle written by Coll Thrush and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2009-11-23 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2008 Washington State Book Award for History/Biography In traditional scholarship, Native Americans have been conspicuously absent from urban history. Indians appear at the time of contact, are involved in fighting or treaties, and then seem to vanish, usually onto reservations. In Native Seattle, Coll Thrush explodes the commonly accepted notion that Indians and cities-and thus Indian and urban histories-are mutually exclusive, that Indians and cities cannot coexist, and that one must necessarily be eclipsed by the other. Native people and places played a vital part in the founding of Seattle and in what the city is today, just as urban changes transformed what it meant to be Native. On the urban indigenous frontier of the 1850s, 1860s, and 1870s, Indians were central to town life. Native Americans literally made Seattle possible through their labor and their participation, even as they were made scapegoats for urban disorder. As late as 1880, Seattle was still very much a Native place. Between the 1880s and the 1930s, however, Seattle's urban and Indian histories were transformed as the town turned into a metropolis. Massive changes in the urban environment dramatically affected indigenous people's abilities to survive in traditional places. The movement of Native people and their material culture to Seattle from all across the region inspired new identities both for the migrants and for the city itself. As boosters, historians, and pioneers tried to explain Seattle's historical trajectory, they told stories about Indians: as hostile enemies, as exotic Others, and as noble symbols of a vanished wilderness. But by the beginning of World War II, a new multitribal urban Native community had begun to take shape in Seattle, even as it was overshadowed by the city's appropriation of Indian images to understand and sell itself. After World War II, more changes in the city, combined with the agency of Native people, led to a new visibility and authority for Indians in Seattle. The descendants of Seattle's indigenous peoples capitalized on broader historical revisionism to claim new authority over urban places and narratives. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, Native people have returned to the center of civic life, not as contrived symbols of a whitewashed past but on their own terms. In Seattle, the strands of urban and Indian history have always been intertwined. Including an atlas of indigenous Seattle created with linguist Nile Thompson, Native Seattle is a new kind of urban Indian history, a book with implications that reach far beyond the region. Replaced by ISBN 9780295741345
Download or read book HIST OF THE PUGET SOUND COUNTR written by William Farrand Prosser and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-07 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of the Puget Sound Country, Its Resources, Its Commerce and Its People, Vol. 2: With Some Reference to Discoveries and Explorations in North America From the Time of Christopher Columbus Down to That of George Vancouver in 1792, When the Beauty, Richness and Vast Commercial Advantages of This Region Were First Made Known to the World In the spring of 1861 Mr. Osborn had been united in marriage to Mrs. Minnie A. Carpenter, a daughter of W'arren Wheaton. Three of her brothers were also defenders of the Union cause in the Civil war, and the health of each was undermined by the sufferings and hardships of that great sanguinary struggle. By her first marriage Mrs. Osborn had four children, and to our subject and his wife has been born a son, Louis W. Osborn, whose birth occurred in 1862. He was educated in the public school, and is a talented and capable young man, still' with his parents. In 1871 Mr. Osborn erected a little log house in the midst of the forest; a blanket was hung at the door, and the furnishings were of the most primi tive nature. All around stood the forest of heavy pine timber, including nineteen large trees upon the rise of ground where he decided to build his house. One of these trees was nine feet in diameter, and when it had been cut down streched along the ground the length of an entire acre. There were many Indians in the country, and there was but one white woman between the Osborn home and Olympia, and Mrs. Osborn, one of the brave pioneer women of the early times, remained alone in the little cabin while her husband was off earning a living at the carpenter trade. The first purchase of land comprised forty acres, and to this additions were made from time to time as the financial resources of Mr. Osborn increased. He now owns a good stock farm, and is not only engaged in the raising of stock but also in the produc tion of hay. He bought one of the first Polled Angus cattle introduced here, and later secured some fine Jersey stock. He now is the possessor of a splendid bull of the Roan - Durham breed, and that stock will now have pref erence upon his farm. Mr. Osborn has also a number of choice fruit trees which he has planted, and upon his place he raises nearly everything needed for home consumption. The house is a pleasant and substantial farm resi dence sheltered by trees of his own planting, and there he and his wife enjoy many of life's comforts. They are good Christian people, spending the even ing of their honorable lives surrounded by many comforts that go to make life worth living. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book HIST OF THE PUGET SOUND COUNTR written by William Farrand 1834- Prosser and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
