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3-2-1 Contact Extras Teacher's Guide
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1993
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Madell
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Teacher's guide for the successful national water conservation program.
Conserve Water
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2000
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Nelson
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Down the Drain
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1991
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Massachusetts Water Resources Authority
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Learning to be Water Wise
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1998
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National Energy Foundation
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Natural Learning
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1997
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Moore, Wong
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Saving Water
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1990
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Water Environment Federation
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Students and Conservation: The Wisest Investment...
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1994
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Kemper Management Services
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Water Conservation
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1998
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Anderson
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2004
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The Life and Travels of John Bartram: From Lake Ontario to the River St. John
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1982
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Paperback reprint, 1990
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Edmund Berkeley & Dorothy Smith Berkeley
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"As far as the scholarly apparatus of the book...one couldn't ask for more....Masterful." 'Pennsylvania History'
Ecology
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Science and Civics: Sustaining Wildlife
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2002
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Council for Environmental Education
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Science and Civics: Sustaining Wildlife is designed to involve young people in decisions affecting people, wildlife and the habitat they share in the community.
Exploring Caves
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2003
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USDA
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A curriculum that introduces students to all facets of caves.
Project Mecca: Texas Ecology
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1986
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The San Antonio Museum Association
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A program put together by the San Antonio Museum Association to teach children about the ecology of Texas/
Junior Master Composter training manual
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2003
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Overgaard
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This packet addresses the options available for reducing the amount of material going into our landfills. Individual activitiesfor use in the classroom, instructions for monitoring their students progress, and the supplies needed to complete the activities.
Activity Guide for Teachers - South Florida National Parks
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1995
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Dayhoff
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This revision of the 1991 version of "An Activity Guide for Teachers" is still designed to meet needs of teachers and students who may never have an opportunity to vidsit the park. It seek to include activities for all of South Florida's National Parks.
The Leopold Education Project - Lessons in a Land Ethic
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2003
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Knapp
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The Leopold Education Project is a curriculum for grades 6-12 designed to instill a land ethic among tomorrow's stewards by providing direct experience witht the antural world. The LEP is interdisciplinary in nature and is based on Aldo Leopold's classic lierary work. "A SAnd County Almanac."
Downcanyon A Naturalist Explores the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon
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2005
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Ann Haymond Zwinger
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"Science in the hands of a poet, this captivating book is for armchair travelers who may never see the grandiose Colorado River in the Grand Canyon and for those who have run it wisely and well. Like the author, readers will find themselves bewitched by the color and flow of the river, and enticed by what's around the next bend. With her, they will feel its rhythms still in the mind, long after the splash and spray and pound are gone.
Environmental Education
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Aquarena Center:Vanishing Endangered Species
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2001
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Russell
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Giving Nature a Hand: A Green Guide to Yard Care
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1994
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Texas Department of Transportation
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Living in Water
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1997
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National Aquarium in Baltimore
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Shark! K-3 Teacher's Guide
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1995
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Nuzzolo, Parham
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45 Suggested Environmental Education Lesson Plans
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1900
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Soil Conservation Service
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45 classroom lessons plans that cover the topics of soils, wildlife, vegetation, water and climate.
Texas 4H Sportsfishing Program
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Tx Ag. Extension Service
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Water Magic
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Jimenez
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Wetlands (Poster Series)
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WET Instruction Handbook
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1990
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Austin AIM High Office
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Water Conservation and Nonpoint Source Pollution
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1994
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Utah State University
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The Essential Gilbert White of Selborne
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1985
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Gilbert White
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Gilbert White's The Natural History of Selborne is one of the world's masterpieces of nature writing. It is the fourth most published book in the English language and has enjoyed great popularity since its first apperarance in 1789. The Natural History, however, was not White's only written work. It formed only part of a portrait of the parish of Selborne, the other side of which was completed by The Antiquities of Selborne, and it drew heavily on White's diary, the Naturalist's Journal. This is the first popular selection from White's writings ever to be published. It contains a choice of the best sections from a rare limited edition of The Writings of Gilbert White produced to the highest standards in the 1930s, which has never been republished.
Self & Community-Land Use Planning and the Visual Environment
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1999
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Chadde, Dunstan,Rulison, Smith, Hanson
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Hancock Middle School teachers collaborated with the Center for Science and Environmental Outreach at Michigan Technological University to develop an interdisciplinary unit for middle school students.
Planning Education Kids Style
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1994
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Brown
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A resource that teaches students how they can plan and design a community.
Volunteer's Manual 6th Grade Outdoor Education-Honey Creek Outdoor Classroom
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2003
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Friends of Guadalupe River, Honey Creek
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Activities for the Honey Creek Outdoor Classroom.
North East ISD Outdoor Environmental Education
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2000
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Anderson, Platz
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5th grade outdoor education packet that contains lessons and activities that are conducted at the John Knox Ranch.
Citizenship Activities for grades 5-12
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2003
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Hansen
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You can use these activities to teach the structure of government at the national, state, and local levels. Students learn to enter the democratic process by voting, campaigning, lobbying, letter-writing or even running for office. They also become familiar with the main vehiclefor participating in the economic life of the nation and the relationship between political and economic decisions.
Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600-1860
Date:
1995
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Reprinted 1997
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Richard H. Grove
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"This is the first book to document the origins and early history of environmentalism, concentrating on its hitherto unexplained colonial and global aspects. The prime importance of the oceanic island 'Eden' as a vehicle for new conceptions of nature is emphasized, and the significance of colonial island environments in stimulatiing conservationist notions is underlined, revealing how, for the first time, the limitability of local and global resources could be recognized."
Environmental Science
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Excuse Me Sir, That's My Aquifer!
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1993
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Bailey
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Twenty Nine and One Creative Dramas of Texas …
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1985
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Edwards Underground Water District
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Visit the Triple R Ranch-Reduce/Reuse/Recycle
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1994
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TNRCC
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Primary
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Journey To Planet Earth
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2003
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Notebaert
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The hands-on activities in this action kit make the questions of Journey to Planet Earth more relevant to today's youth. The kit includes 5 units on action, soil, water, air, and health during the Journey to Planet Earth lessons.
The Life History of an Environmental Schoolyard - Natural Learning
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1997
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Moore, Wong
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The book focuses on how to reintroduce life to the erstwhile asphalt desert and how the educational process impacts the students.
Groundwater
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Composting Activity Series: Grade 5
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1994
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Overgaard
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Denali Curriculum Climbing America's Highest Peak
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1996
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Palmer
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Habitats: K-3
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1994
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Bath
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Habitats: 4-6
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1994
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Mayberry
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Hands on Nature
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2000
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Lingelbach, Purcell
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I Helped Save the Earth
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1991
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O'Brian
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Kids Care: A Cross Curricular Environmental Program
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1994
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Mead
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The Magical City Forest
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1994
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Tree People Inc.
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Mud, Muck and Other Wonderful Things
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1995
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Kroll
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Navigation (Poster series)
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Orienteering and Map Games for Teachers
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1996
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Garrett
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Project Earth Science Meteorology
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1999
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Smith, Ford
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Project Earth Science: Physical Oceanography
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1997
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Smith, Ford
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Project Earth Science: Geology
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1998
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Ford
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Project Seasons
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1995
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Smith
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Taming the Wild Outdoors-Building Cooperative…
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1998
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Levin
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Water, Water Conservation and the Edwards Aquifer
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1994
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Jimenez
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This curriculum was produced because of the obvious need to educate young people of this region about the Edwards Aquifer and water conservation.
We Depend on Illinois Environment
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1994
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Illinois EPA
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Wet in the City
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1999
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Woodsy Owl Activity Guide
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1997
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This guide offers teachers and after school group leaders 12 fun and engaging activities.
Making Discoveries
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2000
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Groundwater Foundation
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Groundwater activities for the classroom and community.
Professional Development
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Always a River Activity Book
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1992
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Breidenbach
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Pre-K
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Barton Springs Segment of the Edwards Aquifer…
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1998
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Barton Springs/Edwards Aquifer Conservation…
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Groundwater: A Vital Resource
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Cedar Creek Learning Center
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Groundwater: What is it and how to Protect it
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1990
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Groundwater (Poster series)
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Teaching Aquifer Protection
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1990
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McAlhany, Dukes
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Surface Water
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Education Outreach for H2O Professionals
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1993
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Nevada Water Conservation in School
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Cooperative Extension
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Rivers Curriculum Guide - Biology
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1998
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williams, biblack
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The Rivers curriculum is not intended to be used as a textboo, but as a set of supplementary materials designed to enhance your existing program or to establish a basis for river study in your school. The materials involve - through a series of hands-on activities conducted through field based study.
Water Quality
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The Adventures of Watershed Willie and Cactus Callie
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1998
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Greg Wukasch
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K thru 2
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An award winning curriculum which teaches students the value of water, watersheds, pollution prevention and conservation through nineteen fun, interactive lessons and activities.
The Great Lakes Project
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1994
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Glinodo Center
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Hands on our Streams
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1996
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Firehock
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Ranger Rick's Nature Scope: Wading Into Wetlands
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1989
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Braus
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Rivers Curriculum Guide: Rivers
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1997
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Ashley
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Rivers Curriculum Guide: Mathematics
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1998
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Brueggeman, Clendenin
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Rivers Curriculum Guide: Earth Science
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1998
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Donato
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The Stream Scene:Watersheds, Wildlife and People
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1992
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Watershed Education Project
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The Streamside Community:Adopt a Watershed Program
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1992
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Miller, Stokely
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Teacher's River Guide-Cuyahoga River Curriculum
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1991
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Keller, Simonis, Bolton
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Where the River Begins-Mt. Rainer Ntl. Park
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1997
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Ocel, Carroll
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Wow: Wonders of Wetlands
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1995
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Kesselheim, Slattery
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Nature Scope-Pollution :Problems and Solutions-Ranger Rick
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1990
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National Wildlife Federation
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Water Quality Handbook - A Teachers Resource for Water Quality Improvement
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1995
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Achtermann, Adrian
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The Water Quality Handbook is an action oriented handbook. It is designed to teach about how we affect the quality of water in our immediate environment. Through expolration, concept development and follow-up activites, students discover concepts, form opinions and come to a realization of thier effect on their environment - nad the quality of our water.
Nonpoint Source Pollution Prevention Environmental Resource Guide
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1992
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This guide presents basic information on the relationships between land use and water quality - specifically nonpoint source pollution water pollution - in a series of 10 factsheets and 15 activities. This guide provides middle school teachers with a concise introduction to nonpoint source pollution issues so they can present this basic information to thier student. The material is "teacher friendly" and can easily be intergrated into existing science, social studies and language arts curriculum.
Nonpoint Source Pollution Prevention Environmental Resource Guide
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1992
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This guide presents basic information on the relationships between land use and water quality - specifically nonpoint source pollution water pollution - in a series of 10 factsheets and 15 activities. This guide provides middle school teachers with a concise introduction to nonpoint source pollution issues so they can present this basic information to thier student. The material is "teacher friendly" and can easily be intergrated into existing science, social studies and language arts curriculum.
Water Science
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Active Watershed Education Program: It's Awesome
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1992
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Southern Rhode Island Conservation District
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Hazardous Waste (Poster series)
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Planning a Highway
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Pollution (Poster series)
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A Sense of Water
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1984
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Carlile
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Teaching materials for elementary grades
Splash: A Study of Water
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1900
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Vinson
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This booklet is a collection of activities created to provide elementary school children with a greater understanding of the importance of water.
Water Quality
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1995
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Stokely, Dunne, Aguirre
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Rivers Curriculum Guide:Chemistry
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1997
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Bryan, Burbank, Ballinger
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The Story of Drinking Water
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2001
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American Water Works Association
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Learn all about drinking water in this "comic book" workbook.
Water Cycle
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1995
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Delta Education
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Teacher's guide to conducting lessons specifically on the water cycle.
The Story of Drinking Water-Teacher's Guide
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2002
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American Water Works Association
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Learn all about drinking water in this "comic book" workbook.
Watersheds
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The Comprehensive Water Education Book
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1994
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International Office for Water Education
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Drinking Water Activities for Students, Teachers and…
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1900
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H2O Science
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1990
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Stangl
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Investigating Water-4H Program
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Howard, Whittlesey
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Local Watershed Problem Studies
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1981
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Major Rivers
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1988
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Education Development Specialists
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Pollution Prevention Week:EE Lesson Plans
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1999
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Project Water Science
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Project WET
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2000
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The Watercourse
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Splash: A Study of Water
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Teachers Guide: The Story of Drinking Water
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1992
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Dale, Corsentino, Brickell
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Thematic Unit: Water
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1993
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WET Instruction
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1990
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Water Precious Water
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1988
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Water Intermediate
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1992
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Water Primary
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1992
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Drutman
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Water Education Activity Guide grades k-4
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1984
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Water and Man, Inc.
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Water Education Activity Guide grades 5-8
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1984
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Water Education Activity Guide grades 9-12
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1984
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Water Magic
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1991
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Water Sourcebook
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1995
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Water Sourcebook
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1995
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Water Sourcebook
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1995
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Water Wizards
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Water, Wetlands and Weather
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1994
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Water in Our Desert Community
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1994
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The Ways of the Watersheds
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1995
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Haskin
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This cuuriculum guide is a resource for the educator who would attempt to explore the many facets of New York city's watersheds. It was proposed and planned by a group of educators searching for a resource that investigates all of the dynamics of watershed education. From a tiny spring in the mountains ta a faucet in Brooklyn, this is an exploration of both the environmental and the cultural dynamics of this vital resource. The guide includes a wide variety of activities as well as information sheets on current terminology and issues on the subjects of water. In addition, incorporated into each chapter are suggestions for classroom assessment tools as well as follow-up projects for eager students.
What is a Watershed?
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1992
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Stokely, Day
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The Wonders of Water
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1997
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Discover a Watershed,Rio Grande,Rio Bravo
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2001
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Watercourse
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Watershed Science for Educators
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2003
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Edelstein, Trautmann, Krasny
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This packet was written for high school and middle school teachers and students who wish to incorporate watershed monitoring into both science and humanities classes or into after-school environmental or science clubs. It includes teacher's pages with objectives, advance preparation, suggestions, and examples of assessment questions. Background information gives the educator a foundation for each topic. Student activity pages and worksheets help the educator direct the lesson.
Protecting our Watersheds
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2001
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Protecting our Watersheds is a program for middle school-aged students to study their watershed and work on projects to improve its health.
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Backyard Conservation Starter Kit
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Water Conservation Workshop for School and Univer…
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The Official Earthday Guide to Planet Repair
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2003
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Hayes
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A how-to home improvement guide for the planet.
Thats Ridiculous Nicholas
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2001
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With a lot of creativity and help from friends, Nicholas creates a beautiful park right in his own neighborhood.
Something in the Soil
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2000
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Patricia Nelson Limerick
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"Thanks to various environmental messes and crises of scarce resources, the celebration of a completed process of discovery, ending in a landscape known, mastered, and put to good use, seems at best silly and at worst dangerous. The assumption that 'normal' means green and well-watered has lost credibility; through pollution and overallocation of what once seemed to be abundant supplies, the residents of the Eastern United States have created for themselves a number of the dilemmas in water scarcity long familiar to the West."
Endangered Rivers and the Conservation Movement
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1986
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Tim Palmer
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"Walk the easy way, downhill, and sooner or later you will probably come to a river. then look around at the high country. All of it drains to that low, wet divider of the valley. The river is the center of the land, the place where the waters, and much more, come together. Here is the home of wildlife, the route of explorers, and a recreation paradise. The word 'river' is so symbolic that it is used in the titles of scores of novels having nothing to do with water flowing toward the sea. To many people, rivers are the most extraordinary part of the land. Only fragments of our inheritance remain unexploited, but these streams are more valuable than ever. People have worked to protec the rivers--to leave some of them the way they are--and this book is the story of those efforts."
The American Environment: Readings in the History of Conservation
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1968
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"The publication of this book marks the first attempt to provide an inexpensive collection of documents illustrating the development of the American conservation movement as idea and actuality. The main currents in this movement are explained through the words of those who shaped it and the comments of their historians."
American Environmentalism: Readings in Conservation History
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1990
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Third Edition
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Roderick Frazier Nash
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"Fittingly this third edition of 'American Environmentalism' is published in 1990, the centennial of the official ending of the American frontier. Americans have now lived for a century without the far and undeveloped horizons that gave rise to the myth of inexhaustibility. As the Eagles, a popular California band of the 1970s put it: 'There is no more new frontier; we have got to make it here.' Doing this entails accepting the inevitable limits that a finite environment--the space-ship earth--imposes on all forms of growth." This book includes an American Environmental Chronology from 1626 through 1989.
The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
Date:
1977
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Fourth Printing, 1983
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Wendell Berry
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"'The Unsettling of America' may be one of the most important books of the decade, the missing link between the crisis of the spirit and the crisis of the mass machine culture we live in." "Los Angeles Times"
The New Country: A Social History of the American Frontier 1776-1890
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1974
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"The first great victory for the conservationists was in 1891 when Arnold Hague [of the United States Geological Survey grasped the need of forest cover as a means of controlling stream flow to prevent floods] manipulated John W. Noble, President Harrison's secretary of the interior, into setting aside 13 million acres as forest reserves in which lumbering was forbidden. By 1909 when Theodore Roosevelt left office, over 150,000,000 acres had been set aside, including much of that part of the original forest--about 20 per cent--that, as of 1920, was still uncut, virgin forest."
Coyote Tales How Coyote Brought Us Water
Date:
1994
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first
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Margaret L. Silbar & Connie Slocumb
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This is a story told by animals about water resources and conservation.
Cuentos de Coyote Coyote Dea'mbula Ri'o Arriba
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1995
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second
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Margaret L. Silbar & Connie Slocumb
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A tale told by animals about conservation and protection of water.
Water Meters--Selection, Installation, Testing, and Maintenance
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2005
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Second Edition
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Herbert F. Barrett, et.al.
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This manual is intended for use by new and existing utilities of all sizes, either as a textbook for those not fully familiar with meters or as a reference manual.
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Basic Essentials
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1999
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The Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle
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2000
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Web of Life
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2002
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Take a look at the Ecology and Biodiversity of Caddo Lake
A Sand County Almanac
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1966
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Life on the Edge
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1995
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Wetlands-Texas Treasures
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2003
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Take a journey across Texas to look at the importance of Wetlands to this state.
The Forest and the Sea
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1960
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Marston Bates
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Insects do the Strangest Things
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1968
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Leonora and Arthur Hornblow
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Of all the woulds of nature there is none so strange as that of the insects. The authors and illustrator of the immensely popular Step-Up Bools about the strange doings of animals, birds and fish have joined forces again, and again prove to young readers that fascinating facts can be as much fun as fiction.
Animal Babies
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2004
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The Color of Life
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2004
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Most of us are able to recognize a wide variety of plants and amimals by thier color. Indeed, sometimes the color of living things is so striking that we have purposely cultivated lovely flowers and raised beautiful animals. But few of us have ever stopped to think that color in the plant and animal kingdom is often functional. In The Color of Life, E. John DeWaard and Jennifer Perrott have combined their talents to tell us about the varied hues to be found in nature, and how coloration pernits plants and animals to attract other plants and animals, hide from enemies, survive extremes in temperature, and, in general, carry on their life functions.
Life and Death of the Salt Marsh
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1969
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John and Mildred Teal
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"At low tide, the wind blowing across Spartina grass sounds like wind of the gentle prairie. When the tide is in, the gentle music of moving water is added to the prairie rustle..."- One of nature's greatest gifts is the string of salt marshes that edges the Wast Coast from Newfoundland to Florida-a ribbon of green growth, part solid land, part scurrying water. LIFE AND DEATH OF THE SALT MARSH shows how these marshes are developed, what kinds of life inhabit them, how enormously they have contributed to man, and how ruthlessly man is destroying them.
Watchers at the Pond
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1966
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Franklin Russell
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This book will show you that the world you live in is a rich and wonderful place and it will also show you how little we know about it. If we are good gardeners and tend the world well, we will prosper. If we indulge in the bad husbandry we are indulging in now, the world will wither and fade-and we will fade with it. At the moment, our bad stewardship of the world is storing up for us something infinitely more frightening than an atomic war. So read this book and learn. Learn that even a pond is important. -Gerald Durrell
John Kieran's Treasury of Great Nature Writing
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1957
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First
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John Kieran
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Former newspaperman and encyclopedic wit of the popular Information Please radio program, John Kieran has written half a dozen books on nature previously. He spent two full years putting this new anthology together, but it is probably nearer the full truth to say he began it many years ago when, as a teacher of a one-room school, he realized he knew little about nature-and then set out to observe, read about, and appreciate it.
Animals Of The National Parks Of America
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1985
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First
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James Murfin
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There are more than 400 species of mammal, nearly 700 species of bird, 300 species of reptile and 200 species of amphibian in North America, and the majority of these are to be found somewhere in the National Parks. Their variety is as stunning as the varied habitats in which they live-there are desert, marine, tropical, Alpine and forest species, species that migrate with the seasons, and species that are seldom seen except by the wardens and rangers dedicated to protecting them. Animals of the National Parks of America shows these amazing species in their natural surroundings, at play, raising their young, engaged in the serious business of surviving wind and weather.
The Loon Voices of the Wilderness
Date:
1985
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First
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Joan Dunning
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"Have you ever heard a loon...deep in the night? The sound is often distant, coming from some remote, inaccessible corner of a lake...And then it comes again-the call known as a wail-but heard the first time, it isn't neatly called by any name. It is a sensation up the spine, a chill to the skin, a creator of that little gap in the mind through which one sees eternity."
Mountain In The Clouds
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1982
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First
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Bruce Brown
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Mountain in the Clouds, like Joun McPhee's Coming into the Country and Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, is a vivid and uncompromising account of an environment in crisis. Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as "a powerful investigative report," it is the story of Bruce Brown's journey through Washington State's Olympic Peninsula where the wild Pacific salmon, once one of America's most bountiful natural resources, are fighting for survival. From logging operations to commercial fishermen to industrial pollution and waste, Brown describes how man's exploitation of the salmon and their waterways has virtually consigned these majestic creatures to extinction, threatening as a result both the region's ecology and its people. But Mountain in the Clouds is more than just a record of greed, indifference and environmental mismanagement. It is also the story of the determined few who have fought to protect the salmon-a story whose sparkling images of the fish themselves, and of the rivers, forests and people with which they are inexticably linked, make it both an eloquent tribute to a courageous creature and a classic of natural history.
Pinon Country
Date:
1986
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First
Author:
Haniel Long
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The pinon country of New Mexico and Arizona is here celebrated by Haniel Lons, who cane to it in 1929. Always entertaining and informative, Pinon Country covers a wealth of topics: the Spanish explorers Coronado and Cabeza de Vaca, Kit Carson, Billy the Kid, the pueblo Indians, the Mormons, marijuana, the peyote religion, miners' strikes, the Grand Canyon, and Carlsbad Caverns. The book originally appeated in the American Folkways Series edited by Erskine Caldwell. this Bison Book edition adds a new foreward by Tony Hillerman, whose best-selling detective novels Dance Hall of the Dead (1973) and People of Darkness (1980) are set in the Southwest.
Marshes Of The Ocean Shore
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1984
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First
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Joseph V. Siry
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"All organic life is beautifully and variedly adjusted to the conditionsof its environment, but it is doubtful if any other zone of the organic world the accomodations are more exquisetly ordered than in the marshes of the ocean shore."
Texas Range Plants
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1999
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3rd
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Stephen Hatch, Jennifer Pluhar
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This book describes and illustrates the 140 grasses, forbs, shrubs and trees that are economically important on Texas rangelands.
A Guide to Freshwater Ecology
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1993
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TCEQ
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The purpose of this manual is to familiarize individuals with the freshwater environment. The manual was written with the intention of making it user friendly; therefore, the material is presented in a nontechnical manner and should be beneficial to individuals with a wide range of expertise.
Earthchild
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2001
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Towell
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Take a journey with a little girl named Earthchild to discover why her friend River has taken back all the water.
Woodsy Owl and the Trail Bikers
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1974
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Graham
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Join Woodsy Owl and his friends as they help clean up a local river.
Trees of Arkansas
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2003
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Moore
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A guide book to the tree species found in Arkansas.
The Wilderness Reader
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1980
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Frank Bergon, editor
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Anthology of personal experiences of 26 writers. The reader is brought into direct confrontation with nature in all its beauty and power. They offer a plea for the preservation of an ever-diminishing part of our national heritage.
The Enchanted Canopy
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1986
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first
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Andrew W. Mitchell
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The rainforest canopy stretches over eight per cent of the earth's surface....Until recently, some of the world's most ancient habitats in the canopy were accessible to only the most skilled climbers but breaksthroughs in ascent technology have opened up the roof of the rainforest to naturalists who are pioneers in their fields. Three hundred feet in the air, men and women walk, study, and live among the canopy's inhabitants. Welcome to their world.
Elliott Coues: Naturalist and Frontier Historian
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1981
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Cutright & Brodhead
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Elliott Coues(1842-99) was one of the renowned figures of American science during figures of American science during the latter decades of the ninteenth century. Naturalist, anatomist, taxonomist, writer and editor, historian, lexicographer and occultist-Coues was all of these.
America's Land and its Uses
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1972
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Marion Clawson
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In this book, designed for college students and general readers, Marion Clawson draws upon many years of his own research and that of colleages at Resources for the Future to present a compact, nontechnical account of the nation's land and its many uses.
Lewis and Clark: Pioneering Naturalists
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1989
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Cutright
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First published in 1969, Lewis and Clark: Pioneering Naturalists remains the most comprehensive account of the scientific studies carried out by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark during their overland expedition to the Pacific Northwest and back in 1804.
America's Pioneering Naturalists: Their lives and times, exploits and adventures
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1982
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Robert Elman
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A look at the lives of some of America's most notable naturalists.
Eternal Quest: The Story of the Great Naturalists
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1969
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Alexander Adams
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This book focuses on the naturalists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, those far-seeing men who laid the foundations of natural history as we know it today.
Our Natural World
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1969
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Hal Borland
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In Our Natural World, Hal Borland has gathered together the thoughts of eighty-five writers: what they have seen and felt as they have lived and traveled in America.
John Muir and His Legacy: The American Conservation Movement
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1981
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Stephen Fox
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John Muir and His Legacy is at once a biography of this remarkable man-the first work to make unrestricted use of all of Muir's manuscripts and personal papers-and a history of the century-old fight to save the natural environment.
A Paradise of Birds: When Spring Comes to Texas
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1968
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Helen Gere Cruickshank
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For several years Helen and Allan Cruickshank have spent their springtime with the birds and other wildlife of Texas. This book is a chronicle of their adventures and observations.
Twelve Moons of the Year
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1985
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Hal Borland
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Hal Borland is known as the author of more than thirty books on country life and ways and creatures, including his classic novel When the Legends Die. Just before his death in 1978, he selected 365 of his favorite "outdoor" editorials that he had written for the New York Times for this book.
A Year in the Maine Woods
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1994
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Bernd Heinrich
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"Throughout this year when "the subtle matters and the spectacular distracts," Heinrich brings us back to the drama in small things, when life is lived consciously. His story is that of a man rediscovering what it means to be alive."
Two in the Far North
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1978
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2
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Margaret E. Murie
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Here is the story of Margaret Murie's grand adventures on the Alaskan frontier-in the goldmining, dog-team era as a young bride, and then as trail mate and fellow explorer of the wilderness with her distinguished biologist husband, Olaus J. Murie.
Alexander Wilson Wanderer in the Wilderness
Date:
1966
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first
Author:
Robert Plate
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"Scottish-born Alexander Wilson gave the new country his gifts, becoming the father of American ornithology and its first great bird painter....Alexander Wilson's neo-classic style was admirably suited to painting birds; his accompanying notes from field study and personal observation set example for all who followed."
The Winter Beach
Date:
1966
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Author:
Charlton Ogburn, Jr.
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"...'The Winter Beach' starts on Mount Desert Island, continues south along the shore to Cape Cod and Nantucket, the Long Island beaches, the Chincoteague and Assateague islands off Virginia, and ends on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Here is a world in which man's hold is precarious...."
Crane Music A Natural History of American Cranes
Date:
1991
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Paul A. Johnsgard
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A natural history of sandhill cranes and whooping cranes. Johnsgard follows the sandhill and whooper through a yearly cycle. He details their migratory journeys and formations, natural habitats, breeding biology, call patterns and fascinating crane dancing.
Yellowlegs A Migration of the Mind
Date:
1980
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reprint
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John Janovy, Jr.
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A professor of science takes a sabbatical to follow one sandpiper for a year.
A Naturalist Buys An Old Farm
Date:
1974
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Edwin Way Teale
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The observations reported in this book are keen and the details accurate and widely informative.
Fragile Giants A Natural History of the Loess Hills
Date:
1989
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first
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Cornelia F. Mutel
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"Just east of the Missouri River in Iowa and northwestern Missouri, an angular band of rugged, prairie-topped and woodland-cloaked hills spans the otherwise uneventful skyline. These are the Loess Hills, recognized throughout the United States for their distinctive natural features. Geologically unique, these water-carved mountains of silt house an unusual and diverse assemblage of native plants and animals, a number of which are rare."
Yosemite The Embattled Wilderness
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2005
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Alfred Runte
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"A major work that has application beyond the Yosemite experience. Today, America's national parks are being destroyed by the unrestrained commercialism that Runte chronicles so effectively." Nevada Historical Society Quarterly
My First Summer in the Sierra
Date:
1914
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edition 1st published in 1987
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John Muir
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"Muir's later work as a conservationist, though immensely important, seems almost an afterthrought. What he was after from the beginning was a sense of union between himself and nature; a seamless bond that could not be torn; a true equality....Near the end of the book he wrote: 'I should like to live here always. It is so calm and withdrawn while open to the universe in full communion with everything good.' And in so speaking of the place he loved best, described himself."
Yosemite, The
Date:
1988
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reprint
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John Muir
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"In 'The Yosemite' John Muir recounts his adventures during the years he sojourned amid the Yosemite Valley's spectacular scenery. Muir eloquently portrays the valley he called his 'marvelous wonderland,' providing detailed descriptions of its natural features--from tiny birds and wildflowers to fierce storms and floods and even an earthquake he experienced. Combining rare literary skills with a passion for discovery, Muir captures moments of breathtaking advwenture: peering over the dizzying brink of Yosemite Falls; climbing a hundred feet up into a high, hollow ice-cone; and scaling Half Dome while it is covered with a fresh blanket of snow to see his shadow, a half-mile long, clearly outlined on the sea of clouds beneath him."
Olympic Battleground
Date:
1991
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Carsten Lien
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"Lien began researching 'Olympic Battleground' in the 1950s, while working as a seasonal ranger in the rain forest area of Olympic National Park. When he discovered that the Park Service--contrary to law and public expectation--was logging the park to satisfy the timber industry, and that this depredation was increasing annually, he grew determined to bring the whole story to public attention."
Rights of Nature, The A History of Environmental Ethics
Date:
1989
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first
Author:
Roderick Frazier Nash
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"Professor Nash's view of the widening circle of environmental awareness, and of the relationship of radical environmentalism to the large evolution of liberal theory, natural-rights doctrine, and ethical consciousness in general, will provoke discussion and perhaps disagreement. Similarly, the book will stimulate reflections of the complex problems that arise when the impulse to protect and cherish the natural environment comes in conflict with other social values and competing claims of rights." Paul S. Boyer
Wilderness World of John Muir, The--Edwin Way Teale, editor
Date:
1954
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second
Author:
John Muir edited by Edwin Way Teale
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"John Muir lived from 1838 to 1914. During that time he covered most of the American Wilderness alone and on foot without a gun, without a sleeping bag, with only a sackful of stale bread and tea. Major credit is ascribed to him for saving the Grand Canyon and Arizona's Petrified Forest. In 1903 he convinced President Theodore Roosevelt, while on a three-day camping trip together, of the importance of a national conservation program."
Lily Pond--Four Years with a Family of Beavers
Date:
1989
Edition:
First Harper Perennial edition published 1990
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Hope Ryden
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"I was entranced by 'Lily Pond.' Ryden's lively style, sense of humor, and unashamed love of being with and writing about the animals she came to know so well results in a book that will appeal to a wide audience...Reading this book was, for me, like journeying into a fascinating new world: I am enriched." Dr. Jane Goodall, from the Preface
Mysterious Lands, The
Date:
1990
Edition:
First Plume printing
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Ann Haymond Zwinger
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"For anyone who loves the American Southwest, Ann Zwinger's books are essential reading. 'The Mysterious Lands' continues her authoritative natural history of this most beautiful and most interesting region on the entire planet." Edward Abbey
Fisherman's Problem, The
Date:
1986
Edition:
third
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Arthur F. McEvoy
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Ecology and Law in the California Fisheries 1850-1980
Wilderness--The Discovery of a Continent of Wonder
Date:
1961
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first
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Rutherford Platt
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"When the ice was at its height, it did not cover the northwest shore of the continent. That was the part of Alaska facing Bering Straid. It is here that America is separated from Asia by only fifty miles of water. However, the two continents are joined just below the surface of Bering Sea. If the water level was [SIC] reduced only a hundred and fifty feet, you could walk from Asia to America over dry land. In the recent Ice Age the levels of the seas all over the world were lowered about three hundred feet. This was because water, evaporating from the sea and deposited as rain or snow on the land, became locked up in the glaciers....Thus at the height of the Ice Age people (as well as animals) could come to America over a land bridge."
Dreamers and Defenders
Date:
2005
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first
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Douglas H. Strong
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"In 'Dreamers and Defenders' Douglas H. Strong relates the triumphs and defeats of twelve environmentalists from Henry David Thoreau to Barry Commoner. Their biographies form the dramatic and ongoing story of the conservation movement in America."
Men's Lives
Date:
1986
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First Vintage Books Edition, January 1988
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Peter Matthiessen
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"Everyone should read this book for enlightenment and entertainment...'Men's Lives'is that rewarding, that informative, that clear, that beautiful, that strongk, inspirational, tender and, in the end, that poignantly sad." Newsday
Back to Nature--The Arcadian Myth In Urban America
Date:
1989
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first paperback edition
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Peter J. Schmitt
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"This book contributes not only to our understanding of the place of wilderness in the popular mind, but tot the forces that made early-twentieth-century Americans dissatisfied with the urban lives they had chosen. Even as it traces the formation of contemporary thinking about wilderness experience and ecological approaches to resource conservation, it hints at the future of the American urban environment." John R. Stilgoe, Harvard University
A Natural History of California
Date:
1992
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Allan A. Schoenherr
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"'A Natural History of California' will familiarize the reader with the climate, rocks, soil, plants, and animals in eacch distinctive region of the state. Following introductory chapters on basic ecology and geology, the book is divided into sections covering the stat's natural regions."
Blue Ridge Parkway, The
Date:
2005
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sixth printing
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Harley E. Jolley
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"Will increase public understanding of how national park areas are secured, developed, and protected, and for many it will add a new level of enjoyment to Parkway travel." National Parks Magazine
Discovery--Great moments in the lives of outstanding naturalists
Date:
1961
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first edition
Author:
John K. Terres
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"...this unique book was conceived to keep alive some of the most thrilling experiences of distinguished contemporary naturalists. It contains thirty-six narratives written expressly for this volume....Some describe the search for rate specimens, others give vivid accounts of personal danger, and still others offer rare and poignant observations of the natural world."
Natural History in America: From Mark Catesby to Rachel Carson
Date:
1977
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first
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Wayne Hanley, editor of the publications of the Massachusetts Audubon Society
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This volume "is a collection of readable passages selected from the writings of great American naturalists."
End of Nature, The
Date:
1989
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First Edition
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Bill McKibben
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"Alleviating the environmental ills will be extraordinarily difficult, if possible at all. But McKibben offers some ways to reorder our lives, ways to live more humbly, so as to preserve our earth in something resembling its natural state. Such shifts in behavior will be anything but easy because environmental problems stem from virtually our every habit. But at least they will be a starting point as we grope for a remedy. In our lifetime there is no topic that will matter as much as our planet's survival. And every discussion will begin with the premise of 'The End of Nature.'"
Out of the Earth: Civilization and the Life of the Soil
Date:
1991
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1st published in Great Britain
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Daniel Hillel
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"Every one of the insidious man-induced scourges that played so crucial a role in the decline of past civilizations has its mirror image in our contemporary world. Human treatment of the environment has grown worse, and in our generation it has brought us to a point of crisis. Salinization, erosion, denudation of watersheds, silting of valleys and estuaries, degradation of arid lands, depletion and pollution of water resources, abuse of wetlands, and excessive population pressure--all are now occurring more intensively and on an ever-larger scale. Added to the old problems are entirely new ones, including pesticide and fertilizer residues, domestic and industrial wastes, the poisoning of groundwater, air pollution and acid rain, the mass extinction of species and, finally, the threat of global climate change."
Selected Journals of Henry David Thoreau
Date:
1967
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First Meridian Classic Printing, January, 1985
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Henry David Thoreau
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"On October 22, 1837, Henry David Thoreau, newly returned from Harvard to his native Concord, began a journal. He was to continue it throughout his life, quarrying from it his major works, and leaving behind notebooks that would fill fill fourteen volumes when posthumously published in 1906. These selections from the journal, chosen in large part so as not to duplicate the material Thoreau published separately, form aliving recocrd of his greatness,bearing testimony to his relationshep with nature, with his fellow man, and with a society whose standards he often condemned. Written with the blending of keen sensory perception and strong intellect that was the hallmark of Thoreau's genius, the journal, as Carl Bode states 'houses his deepest feelings, his most private thoughts.'"
Limits to Growth, the
Date:
1974
Edition:
Ninth Printing (Second Edition) September, 1975
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Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jorgen Randers, William W. Behrens III
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"The headline-making report on the imminent global disaster facing humanity--and what we can do about it before time runs out." "One of the most important documents of our age!" Anthony Lewis, The "New York Times"
Southern Forest, The--A Chronicle
Date:
1991
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First edition, 1991
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Laurence C. Walker
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"Misunderstanding the ralationship of 'ecology' to 'economics' (both terms derive from the same root, in Greek and Latin, respectively) has diminished management. Clear-cutting is, indeed, good ecology--if properly conducted. Now, to make up for the financial losses of recent decades, foresters must intensify silvicultural efforts. To encourage tree growth, for example, they use mineral and nitrogen fertilizers, carefully placing the supplemental nutrients where only the trees, and not the competing vegetation, benefit. Drainage of wet sites to (re)claim them for commercial forest production is under way. Meanwhile, estuary ecologists, supported by aquatic bird hunters, lobby for no net losse of wetlands on public and private ownerships. Indeed surface-mined land reclamation foresters intentionally allot areas in drainage designs for swamps and sloughs. Irrigating other land--for specialty black walnut plantations, for example--is an anticipated practice."
Fire at Peshtigo
Date:
1968
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first
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Robert W. Wells
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"A haunting account of the death and survival, tragedy and fear that marked America's greatest natural disaster."
Deep Ecology--Living as if nature mattered
Date:
1985
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first
Author:
Bill Devall & George Sessions
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"'Deep Ecology' explores the philosophical, psychological, and sociological roots of today's environmental movement, examines the human-centered assumptions behind most approaches to nature, explores the possibilities of an expanded human human consciousness, and offers specific direct action suggestions for individuals to practice. Widely read in its first printing, 'Deep Ecology' has established itself as one of the most significant books on environmental thought to appear in this decade."
Desert Year, The
Date:
1951
Edition:
ninth printing
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Joseph Wood Krutch
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"...this book is both a report on the pattern of the desert world of the American Southwest and its seasons and an adventure into the inner world of a wise and quizzical man." U. S. Quarterly Book Review
Bay Country Reflections on the Chesapeake
Date:
1987
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first
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Tom Horton
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"...'Bay Country' is a stirring portrait of the places and people of the Chesapeake--and of a vanishing way of life."
The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution
Date:
1980
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1st paperback edition published in 1983
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Carolyn Merchant, Ph.D.
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"Carolyn Merchant, historian of science, takes us on a fascinating and critical journey through the Scientific Revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. She shows how the mechanistic world view of modern science sanctioned the exploitation of nature, unrestrained commercial expansion, and a new socio-economic order that subordinated women."
Face of North America: The Natural History of a Continent
Date:
1963
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first
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Peter Farb
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"This book is about the remarkable diversity of landschcapes on the North American continent and the forces that produced them. (North America, in this book, has been limited to what biogeographers label the Nearctic realm--roughly, all the land in the western hemisphere north of the Tropic of Cancer, which passes through northern Mexico." The author has "...concentrated on the basic forces that have sculptured and etched the land--and then tried to illustrate each of these by means of particular scenes." He hopes "...that the reader's actual visits to these landscapes will be enriched, and also that the same basic principles can be applied to understanding other similar landscapes. Running through all the discussions is the theme of a shifting equilibrium: between land and water, between the forces of mountain-building and erosion, between the various plant and animal communities."
Face of North America: The Natural History of a Continent
Date:
1963
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first
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Peter Farb
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"This book is about the remarkable diversity of landschcapes on the North American continent and the forces that produced them. (North America, in this book, has been limited to what biogeographers label the Nearctic realm--roughly, all the land in the western hemisphere north of the Tropic of Cancer, which passes through northern Mexico." The author has "...concentrated on the basic forces that have sculptured and etched the land--and then tried to illustrate each of these by means of particular scenes." He hopes "...that the reader's actual visits to these landscapes will be enriched, and also that the same basic principles can be applied to understanding other similar landscapes. Running through all the discussions is the theme of a shifting equilibrium: between land and water, between the forces of mountain-building and erosion, between the various plant and animal communities."
Whose Woods These Are: The Story of the National Forests
Date:
1962
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first
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Michael Frome
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"The story of the National Forests is one with an embattled past and a magnificent present--a story of men of foresight and courage who have fought to save the land from profiteers, from raging forest fires, from floods and landslides. Rich in history, anecdote, and poetry, Michael Frome's narrative brings alive the great heritage of nature which has been conserved for the use and delight of every sportsman, traveler, and nature-lover in the land."
The Culture of Wilderness: Agriculture as colonization in the American West
Date:
1996
Edition:
first
Author:
Frieda Knobloch
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"In this innovative work of cultural and technological history, Frieda Knobloch describes how agriculture functioned as a colonizing force in the American West between 1862 and 1945."
Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America
Date:
2000
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first
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Ted Steinberg
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"In 'Acts of God' environmental historian Ted Steinberg explains that much of the death and destruction has been well within the realm of human control. Steinberg exposes the fallacy of seeing such calamities as simply random events."
Women in the Field
Date:
1991
Edition:
Second printing 1992
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Marcia Myers Bonta
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"Typically, men dominated the study of the outdoors in the late eighteenth through the early twentieth centuries. But there were women in the field, too--Sometimes accompanying men and sometimes independent of them. Marcia Myers Bonta gives biographies of twenty-five of these women naturalists in this well-detailed study. In addition to a group she considers pioneers, Bonta divides the women by the subject of their study: naturalists, botanists, entomologists, ornithologists, and ecologists."
Ecology in the 20th Century: A History
Date:
1989
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Reprinted 1990
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Anna Bramwell
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"This book--an intellectual and political history of the ecology movement from its beginnings in the late nineteenth century to the present--provides the first thorough study of the origins and background of 'Green' politics which has in recent years carved out a significant political constituency through Europe and America."
Agricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecologic Change in Indonesia
Date:
1963
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first
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Clifford Geertz
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"A valuable and important study...in which source materials from history, economics, soil science, geography and other fields are brilliantly marshalled and interrelated. But besides being an exemplary study in the interaction of history, physical environment and agricultural technology, this book represents a watershed between narrowly conceived ethnographies and the flood of verbose and ill digested post-war 'technology-and-social-change' monographs that are wont to aim high and hit wide...A model of comparative analytical writing." 'Man'
National Parks: The American Experience
Date:
1987
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Second paperback printing: 1989
Author:
Alfred Runte
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"In the second edition of 'National Parks: The American Experience, Alfred Runte has updated and expanded his seminal study with four new chapters and a new epilogue. Using the most recent sources, he enlarges on his discussion of how the environmental battles of the 1960s and 1970s shaped the development of the national park system during those decades. He examines fire ecology as an example of new trends in biological awareness among national park personnel and discusses the recent development of nontraditional parks, including seashore, lakeshores, wild and scenic riverways, and urban recreation areas."
Man and Nature in America
Date:
1973
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First Bison Book printing: October 1973
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Arthur A. Ekirch, Jr.
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"Professor Ekirch has rendered a distinct service by bring together in a comparatively small and readable volume some of the salient viewpoints of thinkers of successive eras who have deeply considered the human being and his environment. Emerson, Thoreau, George Perkins Marsh, Henry George, Malthus--all are represented here, and they pace the trends of change and of conflict in public opinion concerning the relationship between man and nature." 'Christian Science Monitor'
Redesigning the American Lawn: A Search for Environmental Harmony
Date:
1993
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first
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F. H. Bormann, Diana Balmori, G. T. Geballe
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"'Redesigning the American Lawn' is a great guide to a new kind of environmentally sensitive landscape. For those of us who are gardeners or lawn enthusiasts, it makes clear that throught our choices and our actions we can indeed practice the kind of individual stewardship increasingly needed to assure we leave this good earth a better place for our children." William K. Reilly, Senior Fellow, World Wildlife Fund
Extinction: The Causes and Consequences of the Disappearance of Species
Date:
1981
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first
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Paul and Anne Ehrlich
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"This utterly fascinating book describes in loving detail the astonishing interplay of plants, animals, and lower organisms vital to the miracle of life, and dramatically illustrates the catastrophic consequences of humanity's interference in the process. Paul and Anne Ehrlich report that species are disappearing at a rate unprecedented in history--and show what we can do about it before it's too late."
The Environmental Handbook: Prepared for the First National Environmental Teach-In April 22, 1970
Date:
1970
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First Printing: January, 1970
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Garrett De Bell, editor
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"The 1970's is our last chance for a future that makes ecological sense. This handbook focuses on some of the major problems of our deteriorating environment, explains the nature of ecology and--most importantly--suggests action that can be taken right now in any community, by any individual."
The Closing Circle: Nature, Man & Technology
Date:
1974
Edition:
6th printing
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Barry Commoner
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"We are in an environmental crisis because human beings, driven by the urge to conquer nature to produce wealth, have broken out of the circle of life and are destroying the environment. We are on a suicidal course. To survive, we much learn how to restore the wealth we have borrowed from nature."
People and the Land through Time: Linking Ecology and History
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1997
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first
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Emily W. B. Russell
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"...use the simple definition of an ecosystem as an assemblage of organisms and their environment that acts as a unit. A landscape is an assemblage of ecosystems--for example, forest, lakes, and streams--which also interact, though less directly than the components of ecosystems. Ecologists try to understand the organization and functioning of these complex systems by asking questions like why there are more species in one ecosystem than another and how this affects the ability of the system to resist disruption. Discovery of general laws that explain such relations would allow us to predict and anticipate responses of ecosystems to future change."
The Oceans: Our Last Resource
Date:
1981
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first
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Wesley Marx
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"It is still widely believed that oceans are vast storehouses of future prosperity, with immense untapped resources of food, energy, minerals, and even potential living space on a planet where land resources are being rapidly depleted. Wesley Marx, in this thoughtful book, encourages us to step back and re-evaluate both the real opportunities for preserving the oceans' resources and the false expectations for exploiting them. In the process he provides a sensible--and hopeful--prospect for our vital co-existence with the oceans."
Strangers in High Places
Date:
1966
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revised
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Michael Frome
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"Frome continues his pleas for the protecction and preservation of the wilderness. He suggests alternatives to commercial overdevelopment and the destruction of the Great Smokies'flora and fauna, using recent cases such as the Tellico Dam projects as examples. Always emphasizing man's relationship with his surroundings, Frome relates the story of the Great Smoky Mountains with respect and affection for the region, its people and their history."
Fragile Environment, The
Date:
1991
Edition:
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This book explores the impact of the human species on its environment & deals with such topical, & sometimes urgent questions as the death of forests, acid rain & pollution, desertification, the greenhouse effect, & other disruptions to the global climate.
Flush
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2005
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Carl Hiaasen
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"With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah Underwood and his younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of this floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protected waters around their Florida Keys home."
Earth Odyssey: Around the world in search of our environmental future
Date:
1998
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Mark Hertsgaard
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" I didn't intend to read this book: Too many deadlines, too little time. But during a bout with insomnia the other night I picked it up merely to thumb throught it. I was still reading at dawn! Mark Hertsgaard has circled the earth to report on a global drama of enormous implications and his exceptional skills as a journalist make each one of us a companion on the journey. Even insomniacs will find 'Earth Odyssey' a wake-up call." Bill Moyers
Since Silent Spring: Rachel Carson has been proved right. What have we done about it?
Date:
1970
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Author:
Frank Graham, Jr.
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"Seven years after the publication of 'Silent Spring,' the American people are aroused as never before to the need for saving our environment from death by persistent poisons. Several states have already prohibited certain uses of DDT. The U.S. Government has also acted to phase out the use of DDT, but faces formidable opposition from manufacturers and agricultural interests. A wide range of persistent pesticides, even more toxic than DDT, are spread throughout the environment in rising quantities each year. Overwhelming evidence against the use of these compounds is on record; we have not yet taken the decisive steps which that evidence demands."
History of the Sierra 1892-1970, The
Date:
1988
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first
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Michael P. Cohen
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"After almost a hundred years of history-making environmental battles, the Sierra Club's dramatic past is recorded by prize-winning author and John Muir biographer Michael P. Cohen. This lively, comprehensive, immensely readable account outlines the purposes, personalities, campaigns, and controversies that shaped the Club as it grew from its origins as a small, committed group of conservationists into the environmental organization and national political we know today."
The Stork and the Plow: The Equity Answer to the Human Dilema
Date:
1995
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first
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Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne H. Ehrlich, & Gretchen C. Daily
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"Traveling the world, the authors give eyewitness accounts of the scenes they encounter, from the degradation of farmland around African villages to the mixed effects of China's new new consumerism. Explaining problems and offering soluctions with thoroughness and passion, this world-class team of scholars tells wonderful success stories and shows how to move ahead on a hopeful track. 'The Stork and the Plow' suggests a new way of thinking about our future and points the way toward meeting humanity's biggesst challenge."
In a Desert Garden: Love & Death Among the Insects
Date:
1977
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John Alcock
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"With canny insight and bone-dry wit, John Alcock, a specialist in the ecology of the American Southwest, introduces us to the lives and loves of desert insects as they forage through his backyard oasis. Creating his own desert garden behind his suburban home in Tempe, Arizona, Alcock scrutinizes every square inch of soil--detailing the exotic plant life he finds, offering tips on its peccadilloes and preservation."
Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area
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1963
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Harry M. Caudill
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"In 'Night Comes to the Cumberlands' author Harry M. Caudill focuses on the terrible social sore of squalor, ignorance and demoralization among the inhabitants of the Cumberland region of eastern Kentucky. The ugly practices of coal mining plundered the hills, leaving the natives jobless and hopeless among refuse-clogged streams, sterile fields, and abandoned 'company towns.' And these shocking conditions prevail in the Cumberlands even today."
Hoot
Date:
2004
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First Knopf trade paperback edition
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Carl Hiaasen
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"A tale torn from the pages of Hiaasen's past and South Florida's present, a rollicking, righteous sstory about two middle-school eco-warriors." The Miami Herald
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In Accord with Nature
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1999
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Knapp
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Biodiversity Recovery Plan
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1999
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Christmas
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Environmental Education for Empowerment
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1996
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Stapp, Wals, Stancorb
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Environmental Education at the Early Childhood Level
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1994
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Wilson
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EE in the Schools-Creating a Program that Works
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1993
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Braus, Wood
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EE Tool Box:Using Community Resources:Defining EE
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1994
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Disinger, Monroe
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EE Tool Box:Urban EE
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1994
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Benenson, Fialkowski, Hollweg
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EE Tool Box: Designing Effective Workshops
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1994
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EE Tool Box:Evaluating EE Materials
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1994
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Tourtillott, Britt
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EE Tool Box:Approaching Enviro.Issues in the Classroom
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1994
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Pennock, Bardwell, Britt
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EE Tool Box:Using Computers in EE
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1994
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Rohwedder, Alm
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Environmental Teaching Guide
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1996
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Environmental Teaching Guide vol. 2
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1997
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Lessons plans on air quality, water quality, recycling and waste management for grades K-6
EE Materials: Guidelines for Excellence Workbook
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2000
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Simmons
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Excellence in EE-Guidelines for Learning K-12
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1999
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Grasses: An Identification Guide
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N/A
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Brown
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Guidelines for the Initial Preparation of EE
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2000
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Simmons
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How to Create and Nurture a Nature Center...
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1998
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Evans, Evans
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An Introduction to the Aquatic Insects of North America
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1996
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Merritt, Cummins
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Journal of Environmental Education (Vol. 31 #4-Present)
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2000
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NAAEE
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The Lorax
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1971
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Dr. Seuss
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Making Waves: How to Put on a Water Festival
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1993
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Killham
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NAAEE Communicator (Sept.-Oct. 2000-Present)
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2000
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Xeriscape Color Guide
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1999
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Xeriscape Handbook
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1997
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Weinstein
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Greening School Grounds
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2001
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Grant, Littlejohn
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Just Testing the Waters
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2002
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1st
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Jane Doe
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Environmental Education in the Schools
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1993
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Braus, Wood
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Over 400 pages of activities, tips and suggestions for creating an environmental education program that works.
Rosita's Bridge
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2001
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Fisher
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Carla Maria is chosen to present flowers to her grandmother, singer Rosita Fernandez, when a stone bridge over the San Antonio River is named Rosita's Bridge. In this true story, she finds out why Rosita's Bridge is called not just a bridge across a river, but a bridge between cultures.
Plants That Never Ever Bloom
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1984
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First
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Ruth Heller
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Seasons of the Salt Marsh
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1975
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David Alan Gates
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Because the tidal salt marsh is neither land nor sea, life within its confines must be equipped with a marvelous adaptability, not only to the changing seasons but to the daily rise and fall of the tides which alernately flood and expose its sruface. David Gates provides an uncommonly intimate examination of this fertile habitat, its development since the last ice age, the interaction of its plants and animals and the abiding importance of the total ecosystem. The more than 100 drawings by Edward and Marcia Norman bring us still closer to the flourishing flora and fauna in and around this special environment.
Panther
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2004
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Roger A. Caras
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The panthers of the Florida Everglades are darker, more distinctly reddish-brown, than the caths to be found to the north and west, where they are known variously as mountain lions, pumas, cougars, screamers, and catamounts. Like them, the Everglades panther is sleek and strangely mysterious, equipped for survival with devastatingly sharp claws and teeth, able to stalk and bring down a thousand-pound horse. No wonder it figures in the legends of the Seminoles and other Indian tribes.
The Lives and Achievements of the Great Naturalist
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1936
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First
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Donald Culross Peattie
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Of all things under the sun that a man may love, the living world he loves most purely. In a lifetime's divotion to it there is no self-interest. Men so devoted tell us of their well-companioned days, but they are reticent about their best reward. In Nature nothing is insignificant, nothing ignoble, nothing sinful, nothing repetitious. All the music is great music, all the lines have meaning.
Texas School Recycling Guide
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2000
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Explains how you can get a recycling program started on your school campus.
Creating Environmental Publications
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2003
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Zehr, Gross, Zimmerman
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A guide to writing and designing for interpreters and Environmental Educators.
Bexar County Master Gardener
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1998
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Dr. Jacquelyn Alexander, Debbie Hendren
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Bexar County Master Gardener classroom garden research project- Final Report.
Texas Community Garden Resource Guide
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1996
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Bexar County Master Gardeners
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The guide is meant to be a resource for individuals or organizations considering a neighborhood garden.
Water Celebration a Handbook
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1993
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Watercourse
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A handbook that will help you plan your very own water festival.
San Antonio Missions
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2003
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Torres
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A historical look at the five missions that created the foundation of the present day San Antonio Texas.
San Antonio Outpost of Empires
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1997
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San Antonio: Outpost of Empires is a vivid, honest portrait in words and pictures of San Antonio's evolution over the course of nearly three centuries.
Water in the Hispanic Southwest
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1984
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Meyer
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A social and legal history of water from 1550 to 1850.
Making a Bigger Splash
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2003
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Groundwater Foundation
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A collection of water education and water festival activities.
White Sands The History of a National Monument
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1993
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second
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Dietmar Schneider-Hector, Ph.D.
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"White Sands National Monument in south-central New Mexico provides a unique desent experience for the half-million tourists who visit each year. Schneider-Hector's history of White Sands, one of the world's greatest concentrations of gypsum dunes, enhances that experience by clearly explaining the geological formation of the dunes, the interaction of plants and animals, and the effects of human intervention."
Back in Keith County
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1981
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John Janovy, Jr.
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"'Back in Keith County' returns to that part of Nebraska that Mr. Janovy knows and loves....The book shows the area's wildlife--tiger beetles, toads, swallows, owls and a variety of fish--to be as special as its people....The author also reflects on the intangible aspects of life....The rich ramblings of these 79 pages are fascinating." Kansas City Star
The Desert Smells Like Rain A Naturalist in Papago Indian Country
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1982
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third
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Gary Paul Nabhan
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"'The Desert Smells Like Rain' offers insights into the natural history of desert plants and animals as it documents a dying agricultural tradition that has enriched the biological diversity of the Papago's seemingly harsh desert environment. Drawing on his extensive scientific research and study of Papago folklore, as well as his years of work among the Desert People in village gardening and nutrition programs, Nabhan portrays a desert-adapted way of life that has persisted despite the pressures of modern civilization."
The North American Deserts
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1957
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fourth printing
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Edmund C. Jaeger
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"The five deserts of North America--the Chihuahuan, Sonoran, Navahoan, Mohavean, and the Great Basin--extend from central Mexico almost to the border of Canada. To be called a desert, a geographical area much satisfy certain conditions as to weather, and although the five in North America have many characteristics in common, the author shows that each desert has its definite individuality in its plan and animal life, climate, land formation, and geologic history. Nondetailed mamps give a quick view of the general boundaries, and the text suggests routes useful for the traveler, the student, and the explorer."
Pine Barrens, The
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1967
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22nd printing
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John McPhee
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In the low center of New Jersey is a region of vast forests and sandy soil know as the Pine Barrens. McPhee tells how this geographic anomaly came to be and captures the dreamlike quality of this incredibly quiet land in the midst of the noisy clutter of mechanical civilization.
Women and Wilderness
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1980
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first
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Anne LaBastille
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Profiles of 15 contemporary women living and working in the wilderness, as well as examples of several historical wilderness women. "The women in the profiles are a diverse group--an outdoor-magazine editor in New York City, a university professor who dives in the Red Sea, a New Jersey housewife--mother--caver, and so on...."
Botany of Desire, The A Plant's Eye View of the World
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2001
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first
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Michael Pollan
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"Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers'genes....Pollan links four fundamental human desires--sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control--with the plants that satisfy them: the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato...."
Great Chain of Life, The
Date:
1956
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Joseph Wood Krutch
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"A wise and well-informed humanist has taken the time to look lovingly and wonderingly at the living world around him, and to study the ways in which scientists have tried to analyze the world...THE BEST INTRODUCTION TO NATURAL HISTORY THAT HAS YET BEEN WRITTEN." Marston Bates in the "New York Times"
Dune Boy
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1943
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reprint
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Edwin Way Teale
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"....the late Edwin Way Teale, zealous scientist, superb photographer, and literary-naturalist...spent summer and holiday vavations during his formative years at the northern Indiana dune country farm of his grandparents. In this nostalgic account of his boyhood at Lone Oak Farm on the borderland of the picturesque dunes, he gives us an authentic picture of the way we were, the way we would like to have been. This is late pioneer America. Teale's grandparents, the Ways, were wonderful people, literate, colorful, intelligent, and rustic. Everyone should have had them for grandparents, or at least should have the chance to meet them in Teale's beautiful memoir."
Voice of the Desert, The A Naturalist's Interpretation
Date:
1955
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first
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Joseph Wood Krutch
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"Joseph Wood Krutch, author, came to the desert in his middle years--a man of letters who had spent his entire adult life in the cities and countryside of the Northeast. He found that the desert was exactly right for him--that he was healthier and happier in its bright, dry air than ever before. So he settled in Tucson and began inquiring into the habits of other creatures who were, like himself, at home in the desert..." and for five years he gathered the material which forms the basis of this book.
Cruise of the Corwin, The
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1993
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John Muir
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"'The Cruise of the Corwin" is the story of a voyage John Muir took in 1881 on the steamer 'Thomas Corwin,' which set sail from San Francisco for arctic waters off the coast of Alaska in search of the 'Jeannette,' as ship tragicall7y lost two years before. 'The Jeanette' was never found, but Muir's account of his voyage conveys the excitement of far and little-known horizons. Here we find Muir sketching glaciers and examining rare flora; discovering Wrangell Island off the coast of Siberia and claiming it for the United States; observing seal, walrus, whale, and reindeer; exploring the wind-swept islands of the Bering sea; and invistigating a 'village of the dead,' where whole clans perished of starvation in the unforgining landscape. Pieced together by Muir's literary executor, William F. Bade', from newspaper correspondence, published scientific articles, and unpublished journals after Muir's death in 1914, "The Cruise of the Corwin' is a vivid account of the last stretches of the American frontier."
Travels in Alaska
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1914
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second
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John Muir
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"In 1914, when Muir turned to assembling his Alaskan material, he had reached the last year of his life. This new edition, issued more than sixty years later, appears at a time when Alaska, and particularly the struggle to preserve areas of the Alaskan wilderness that so attracted Muir a century ago, are much in the headlines. The concern for such areas, the desire to protect them from exploitation, the interest in their welfare felt by many today is, in a special way, a legacy left by the life and work of John Muir." from the introduction by Edwin Way Teale
Forgotten Peninsula, The--A Naturalist in Baja California
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1961
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second printing 1988
Author:
Joseph Wood Krutch
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"Even though Krutch saw the future comine and knew that little could be done about it, it never stopped him from communicating his discoveries in precise and caring descriptions or enlivening a rugged and formidable peninsula with a personality that no one had bothered to look for before. If remaining a worthwhile enjoyable work over a period of time is one of the definitions of 'a classic,' then this is indeed just6 that. I am very thankful that Krutch was there when he was and wrote this book that is still such a delight to read." Ann Zwinger
A Forest Journey The Role of Wood in the Development of Civilization
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1989
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first
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John Perlin
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"The destruction of the world's forests is one of the major concerns of our age. Each year the world loses some 37 million acres of forests. But this book is more than just a chronicle of deforestation. It describes the movement of Wester civilization by taking one resource, wood, the principal building material and fuel of past societies, and examining how societies'need for new sources of wood has been an important cause of large population movements throughout history."
Flight Maps Adventures with Nature in Modern America
Date:
1999
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first
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Jennifer Price
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"By turns witty and whimsical, urgent and ironic, 'Flight Maps' is a sophisticated meditative archaeology of Americans' desire to make nature meaningful in their lives."
Divorce Among the Gulls An Uncommon Look at Human Nature
Date:
1991
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reprint from hardcover
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William Jordan
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"Provocative, compelling persuasive and charming....Describes the behaviou of critters absolutely grippingly....Perhaps the really uncommon thing about Jordan's 'look' lies in his sublime skill as a storyteller and writer. He relates his own and other scientists' telling actions and reactions with great humor and flair....His philosophical essays are thus ultimately ground not in science alone, but also in warm human interest." Booklist
Autumn Across America A Naturalist's 20,000 Mile Journey Through Autumn
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2005
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Edwin Way Teale
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"Teale's stunning acccount of his wide-ranging journey through twenty-six states from coast to coast--from Cape Cod to California--captures the brilliant colors and reflective essence of the American autumn."
Lifebirds
Date:
1995
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First American Edition
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George Levine
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"While one doesn't have to be interested in birds to read 'Lifebirds' with pleasure, Levine attempts to seduce the reader into the birding experience through a series of autobiographical memoirs with birds at their center. It is aimed, then, not at the experts, except as experts may find in it echoes of their own birding enthusiasms and indications of how a journeyman experiences their more rigorously constructed world. Rather, it is aimed at those whose love of life has been or might yet be wonderfully enhanced by encounters with birds--visible in their backyards or in the wilderness--and their magincal songs and glorious colors."
Circle of the Seasons--The Journal of a Naturalist's Year
Date:
1953
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Edwin Way Teale
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"In this journal of a naturalist's year, readers travel not in miles, but in time through the four seasons. And there is a rich mine of material in this book that will astonish and delight, not only on the first reading, but for repeated browsing afterward."
Steep Trails
Date:
1994
Edition:
second
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John Muir
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"Originally published in 1918, this brilliant collection of letters and magazine articles spans nearly thirty years of Muir's writing and is one of the lesser known gems of the Muir canon. Gathered shortly after Muir's death by family friend William Frederic Bade', these passages are learned, funny, exalted, and quirky in one amazing turn after another."
Grand Canyon Today and All Its Yesterdays
Date:
1989
Edition:
first
Author:
Joseph Wood Krutch
Audience:
8 thru Adult
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Number of Pages:
277
"If, as Mr. van Loon said, the entire population of the earth could be all but lost in the Canyon, it is no wonder that a few thousands leave lots of unoccupied space....I looked across the ten miles to the opposite rim, down the successive terraces to the inner gorge at whose invisible bottom the great river still runs after having cut through a mile of stone, and then at the wall of an opposite promontory on my own side...I checked the dividing lines between the successive formations of the geological--the Permian limestone on which I sat, the hundreds of feet of sandstone below it, the great Redwall of Carboniferous age, the resisting plateau of Cambrian sediments, and finally the black wall of Archean Schist."
A Walk Through the Year
Date:
1978
Edition:
second
Author:
Edwin Way Teale
Audience:
8 thru Adult
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Number of Pages:
424
"Henry Thoreau once proposed 'a book of the seasons, each page of which should be written in its own season and out-of-doors.' A century and a quarter later Edwin Way Teale, one of America's foremost nature writers, did exactly that in 'A Walk Through the Year.' Set down on the spot and in season, it is a rechly varied interweaving of discoveries, reflection, original observations, remembrances, first-hand experiences, and fresh insights into nature."
Wandering Through Winter--An Adventurous 20,000 Mile Journey Through the North American Winter
Date:
1965
Edition:
first
Author:
Edwin Way Teale
Audience:
8 thru Adult
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Number of Pages:
370
"The same warmth, breadth of interests and freshness of viewpoint that have been features of the previous books characterize 'Wandering Through Winter.' The result is an original travel book as well as an unusual nature volume."
North With The Spring
Date:
1957
Edition:
fifteenth large printing
Author:
Edwin Way Teale
Audience:
8 thru Adult
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Number of Pages:
358
"Not since Audubon searched this great area for birds, has anyone made such a broad and imaginative survey of the wild as this one. As such it is of great scientific interest."
Journey Into Summer
Date:
1960
Edition:
3rd printing December, 1960
Author:
Edwin Way Teale
Audience:
8 thru Adult
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Number of Pages:
366
"A naturalist's record of a 19,000-mile journey through the North American Summer."
Wild Heritage
Date:
1965
Edition:
first
Author:
Sally Carrighar
Audience:
8 thru Adult
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Number of Pages:
276
A study of animal behavior to discover what humans learned to do from them.
Desert Passages
Date:
1985
Edition:
first
Author:
Patricia Nelson Limerick
Audience:
8 thru Adult
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Number of Pages:
218
"Deserts...represent nature at its most extreme. Studies of American attitudes toward nature have generally dealt with more accommodating environments; this book adds a new dimension to American environmental history. Tracing the development of American attitudes toward the desert, the author uses case studies from the writings of eight individuals..."
Greening of a Nation?, The--Environmentalism in the United States Since 1945
Date:
1998
Edition:
first
Author:
Hal K. Rothman
Audience:
8 thru Adult
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Number of Pages:
219
"As a nation we want convenience and abundance, but we want it without risk. Environmental protection was designed to mitigate that risk, to measure it and make it tolerable, to guarantee a minimum level of quality of life....In effect, Americans have shown a tendency to be 'green' when it is inexpensive--economically, socially, and culturally--but a reluctance to collectively sacrifice convenience and even the smallest of material advantages to assure a 'cleaner' future. This is the paradox of the history of the environmental movement: its call, its challenges, and its limits rolled into one."
Nature and the American: Three Centuries of Changing Attitudes
Date:
1957
Edition:
third
Author:
Hans Huth
Audience:
8 thru Adult
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Number of Pages:
250
"A valuable reference work for the [reader] seeking to balance a history of wars, politics, and heroic explorations with a history of ideas and a growing environmental awareness and conscience. It is an important book." Journal of Environmental Education
Adirondacks, The A History of America's First Wilderness
Date:
1997
Edition:
first
Author:
Paul Schneider
Audience:
8 thru Adult
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Number of Pages:
368
"At the book's center is the heartening saga of replenishment. Since the 'forever wild' amendment to the New York Consitution was enacted in 1894, a park of public and private holdings--larger than either Massachusetts or New Jersey--was created to protect what remained of a land decimated by loggers. Within a hundred years almost every species of wildlife has returned to inhabit millions of acres of replenished forests and freshwaters. And as we turn into the twenty-first century, we come to realize why many Americans will be traveling east, not west, to experience nature in the wild."
Keith County Journal
Date:
1978
Edition:
first
Author:
John Janovy, Jr.
Audience:
8 thru Adult
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Number of Pages:
210
"The book is a rare mesh of scientific thought and brilliant literary talent; and in the end it is about more than field research, more than the invisible world of protozoa, more, even, than the lyrical descriptive passages of the beauty of nature hiding in the supposedly monotonous Nebraska sandhills...a spell binding essay on nature that belongs with the best of the genre." Miami Herald
The Natures of John and William Bartram
Date:
1996
Edition:
first
Author:
Thomas P. Slaughter
Audience:
Adult thru Adult
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Number of Pages:
304
"This compelling book ranges from the wonderfully traditional appeal of natural history to the innovative contemporary inquiry that might be called the history of personality (or of temperament). As an intergenerational study of pioneer naturalists in America, it is a fascinating page-turner that should not be missed." Michael Kammen, Cornell University
Cape Cod
Date:
1987
Edition:
This edition first published 1987
Author:
Henry David Thoreau
Audience:
8 thru Adult
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