Download or read book Discovering Alabama Wetlands written by Douglas Jay Phillips and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alabama Could Easily Be Called the "Aquatic State." It has an abundant supply of rain with countless streams, rivers, lakes, swamps, bogs, bottomlands, and bays that capture and release this freshwater. An estimated 20 percent of the nation's total freshwater works its way through this small physical land area that ranges from the temperate foothills of the Appalachians to the semitropical Gulf Coast. Alabama's varied watery realms have harbored and continue to sustain a rich diversity of plant and animal species virtually unequaled on the continent.
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Download or read book Discovering Alabama Forests written by Douglas Jay Phillips and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Discovering Alabama Forests, ecologist-educator Doug Phillips and photographer Robert Falls celebrate the current health and diversity of Alabama woodlands while sounding a call for their wise management and protection in the future.
Download or read book Wading Right In written by Catherine Owen Koning and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-08-09 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where can you find mosses that change landscapes, salamanders with algae in their skin, and carnivorous plants containing whole ecosystems in their furled leaves? Where can you find swamp-trompers, wildlife watchers, marsh managers, and mud-mad scientists? In wetlands, those complex habitats that play such vital ecological roles. In Wading Right In, Catherine Owen Koning and Sharon M. Ashworth take us on a journey into wetlands through stories from the people who wade in the muck. Traveling alongside scientists, explorers, and kids with waders and nets, the authors uncover the inextricably entwined relationships between the water flows, natural chemistry, soils, flora, and fauna of our floodplain forests, fens, bogs, marshes, and mires. Tales of mighty efforts to protect rare orchids, restore salt marshes, and preserve sedge meadows become portals through which we visit major wetland types and discover their secrets, while also learning critical ecological lessons. The United States still loses wetlands at a rate of 13,800 acres per year. Such loss diminishes the water quality of our rivers and lakes, depletes our capacity for flood control, reduces our ability to mitigate climate change, and further impoverishes our biodiversity. Koning and Ashworth’s stories captivate the imagination and inspire the emotional and intellectual connections we need to commit to protecting these magical and mysterious places.
Download or read book Exploring Wild Alabama written by Kenneth M. Wills and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive guide available to Alabama's publicly accessible natural destinations
Download or read book Discovering Wetlands written by Janey Levy and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2007-07-15 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young explorers will learn to define the geography of wetlands and locate where they occur as they study the impact of weather on them and the wildlife that live, grow and migrate there.
Download or read book Alabama Adventure written by Doug Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alabama's diverse landscape from the mountains to the prairie lands to the coastal regions.
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Download or read book Southern Sanctuary written by Marian Moore Lewis and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2015-01-31 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A year-long exploration of a wildlife preserve near Huntsville, Alabama, Southern Sanctuary offers a richly illustrated and handsome introduction to the scenic beauty and biodiversity of plants and animals native to the Southern Appalachians.
Download or read book Among the Swamp People written by Watt Key and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 2018-04-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colorful and lively personal essays about life in the wilds of Alabama’s Mobile-Tensaw River Delta Among the Swamp People is the story of author Watt Key’s discovery of the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta. “The swamp” consists of almost 260,000 acres of wetlands located just north of Mobile Bay. There he leases a habitable outcropping of land and constructs a primitive cabin from driftwood to serve as a private getaway. His story is one that chronicles the beauties of the delta’s unparalleled natural wonders, the difficulties of survival within it, and an extraordinary community of characters—by turns generous and violent, gracious and paranoid, hilarious and reckless—who live, thrive, and perish there. There is no way into the delta except by small boat. To most it would appear a maze of rivers and creeks between stunted swamp trees and mud. Key observes that there are few places where one can step out of a boat without “sinking to the knees in muck the consistency of axle grease. It is the only place I know where gloom and beauty can coexist at such extremes. And it never occurred to me that a land seemingly so bleak could hide such beauty and adventure.” It also chronicles Key’s maturation as a writer, from a twenty-five-year-old computer programmer with no formal training as a writer to a highly successful, award-winning writer of fiction for a young adult audience with three acclaimed novels published to date. In learning to make a place for himself in the wild, as in learning to write, Key’s story is one of “hoping someone—even if just myself—would find value in my creations.”
Download or read book Alabama Rivers A Celebration and Challenge written by William G. Deutsch and published by MindBridge Press. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ALABAMA RIVERS, A CELEBRATION AND CHALLENGE invites you to travel down rivers and through time to encounter the rich human history and natural wonders that have defined Alabama. Along the way, you will celebrate an array of magnificent rivers filled with unique plants and animals, shaped over the ages by a remarkably diverse geology. You will appreciate how rivers have served people from the first Paleo-Indian settlements to the present. Accept the challenge to restore and protect our rivers for their economic, cultural, and ecological benefits, but most of all because it is the right thing to do.
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