Download or read book Wilderness and Natural Areas in Eastern North America written by David L. Kulhavy and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wilderness and Natural Areas in the Eastern United States written by David L. Kulhavy and published by Stephen F. Austin State University, School of Forestry. This book was released on 1986 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rewilding North America written by Dave Foreman and published by . This book was released on 2004-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Rewilding North America, Dave Foreman takes on arguably the biggest ecological threat of our time: the global extinction crisis. He not only explains the problem in clear and powerful terms, but also offers a bold, hopeful, scientifically credible, and practically achievable solution. Foreman begins by setting out the specific evidence that a mass extinction is happening and analyzes how humans are causing it. Adapting Aldo Leopold's idea of ecological wounds, he details human impacts on species survival in seven categories, including direct killing, habitat loss and fragmentation, exotic species, and climate change. Foreman describes recent discoveries in conservation biology that call for wildlands networks instead of isolated protected areas, and, reviewing the history of protected areas, shows how wildlands networks are a logical next step for the conservation movement. The final section describes specific approaches for designing such networks (based on the work of the Wildlands Project, an organization Foreman helped to found) and offers concrete and workable reforms for establishing them. The author closes with an inspiring and empowering call to action for scientists and activists alike. Rewilding North America offers both a vision and a strategy for reconnecting, restoring, and rewilding the North American continent, and is an essential guidebook for anyone concerned with the future of life on earth.
Download or read book From Coastal Wilderness to Fruited Plain written by Gordon G. Whitney and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-08-29 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Coastal Wilderness to Fruited Plain is an account of the making of a large part of the American landscape following European settlement. Drawing upon land survey records and early travellers' accounts, Dr Whitney reconstructs the 'virgin' forests and grasslands of the north-eastern and central United States during the pre-settlement period. He then documents successively the clearance and fragmentation of the region's woodlands, the harvest of the forest and its game, the ploughing of the prairies, and the draining of wetlands. The degree to which these activities altered the soil, climate, plant and animal communities, and water cycle are evaluated, and the sustainability of present-day ecosystems is brought into question in this account.
Download or read book Eastern Wilderness Areas written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Public Lands and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eastern Wilderness Areas written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Public Lands and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book America s Natural Places East and Northeast written by Donelle Nicole Dreese and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-11-25 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Maine's Acadia National Park to Kentucky's Natural Bridge State Park Nature Preserve, this volume provides a snapshot of the most spectacular and important natural places in the East and Northeast. America's Natural Places: East and Northeast examines over 50 of the most spectacular and important areas of this region, with each entry describing the importance of the area, the flora and fauna that it supports, threats to the survival of the region, and what is being done to protect it. Organized by state within the volume, this work informs readers about the wide variety of natural areas across the east and northeast and identifies places that may be near them that demonstrate the importance of preserving such regions.
Download or read book Wilderness Comes Home written by Christopher McGrory Klyza and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2001 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to look at wilderness in the northeastern US, Wilderness Comes Home features a new approach based on ecological reserve design to protect biological diversity, rewilding and restoring lands to wilderness, and embedding wilderness in a landscape of sustainably managed farmland and forestland. It addresses major theoretical and practical aspects of this important issue -- whether, why, and how to reestablish wilderness areas in the Northeast. Although Western wilderness models already exist for undeveloped areas, Eastern models are still evolving. Protection and social management are being urged not for the "forest primeval" but for recovering areas, in which returning species such as moose and peregrine falcons roam over new growth softwoods and hardwoods, interspersed with the stone walls that once marked field boundaries.
Download or read book Proceedings RMRS written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proposed Eastern Wilderness Areas in National Forests written by United States. Congress. House. Interior and Insular Affairs Comm and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wilderness Areas of North America written by Ann Sutton and published by New York : Funk & Wagnalls. This book was released on 1974 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concise, authorative descriptions of more than 500 still wild and primitive areas throughout North America which are preserved as national parks, wilderness areas and wildlife refuges.
Download or read book New Publications written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proposed Eastern Wilderness Areas in National Forests written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Public Lands and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Natural Area Tourism written by David Newsome and published by Channel View Publications. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural Area Tourism provides an authoritative and comprehensive account of tourism in natural, wild and protected areas. The second edition contains an overview of key literature and new developments that have emerged since the publication of the first edition more than a decade ago. Accordingly, this book will remain an invaluable resource and review of the subject for many years to come.
Download or read book Battle for the Wilderness written by Michael Frome and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Battle for the Wilderness is one of the important works of the American conservation movement. Centered on the struggle to pass the 1964 Wilderness Act, it offers a well-written, workable definition of wilderness and presents conservation as a vital thread in American history. In a completely new preface, Michael Frome ruminates on the relative treatment of the wilderness system under successive administrations, and on recent approaches to the preservation of wild lands. The full text of the Wilderness Act - the document remains at the center of continuing disputes over the definition, designation, and disposition of wilderness - is reproduced in one appendix, while another appendix lists all the wilderness areas now designated in the fifty states."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Wilderness Visitors and Recreation Impacts written by David N. Cole and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book General Technical Report RMRS written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
