Author: Edmund RuffinPublisher:
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Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Agricultural, Geological, and Descriptive Sketches of Lower North Carolina, and the Similar Adjacent Lands
Author: Edmund RuffinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Bulletin - North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey
Author: North Carolina Geological and Economic SurveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
Bibliography of North Carolina Geology, Mineralogy and Geography
Author: Francis Baker LaneyPublisher:
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
A Bibliography of American Natural History: The institutions which have contributed to the rise and progress of American natural history, which were founded or organized between 1769 and 1844
Author: Max MeiselPublisher:
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Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
Subtitle; The role played by the scientific societies; scientific journals; natural history museums and botanic gardens; state geological and natural history surveys; federal exploring expeditions in the rise and progress of American botany, geology, mineralogy, palentology and zoology.
Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society
Author: Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society (Chapel Hill, N.C.)Publisher:
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Vols. 20- include Proceedings of the North Carolina academy of science, 1902-
Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society for the Year ....
Author: The North Carolina Coastal Zone and Its Environment
Author: Bulletin
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Swamplands
Author: Edward StruzikPublisher: Island Press
ISBN: 164283081X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
In a world filled with breathtaking beauty, we have often overlooked the elusive charm and magic of certain landscapes. A cloudy river flows into a verdant Arctic wetland where sandhill cranes and muskoxen dwell. Further south, cypress branches hang low over dismal swamps. Places like these–collectively known as swamplands or peatlands–often go unnoticed for their ecological splendor. They are as globally significant as rainforests, and function as critical carbon sinks for addressing our climate crisis. Yet, because of their reputation as wastelands, they are being systematically drained and degraded to make way for oilsands, mines, farms, and electricity. In Swamplands, journalist Edward Struzik celebrates these wild places, venturing into windswept bogs in Kauai and the last remnants of an ancient peatland in the Mojave Desert. The secrets of the swamp aren’t for the faint of heart. Ed loses a shoe to an Arctic wolf and finds himself ankle-deep in water during a lightning storm. But the rewards are sweeter for the struggle: an enchanting Calypso orchid; an elusive yellow moth thought to be extinct; ancient animals preserved in lifelike condition down to the fur. Swamplands highlights the unappreciated struggle being waged to save peatlands by scientists, conservationists, and landowners around the world. An ode to peaty landscapes in all their offbeat glory, the book is also a demand for awareness of the myriad threats they face. It urges us to see the beauty and importance in these least likely of places. Our planet’s survival might depend on it.
Bibliography of North American Geology
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 1186
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