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Languages : en
Pages : 680
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Louisiana Conservation Review...
Author: Bulletin
Author: The Regional Review
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Category : National parks and reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Louisiana Conservation Review, Vol. 1
Author: Louisiana Department Of ConservationPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780365102434
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Excerpt from Louisiana Conservation Review, Vol. 1: December 1930 Coast region, particularly in Louisiana, are of the charming vistas framed by the mas sive Spreading oak trees festooned and draped with long flowing strands of Spanish moss. The weird and wraithlike. Appearance of the Span ish moss appeals to all who see this dense mass swinging in the breeze. To the native, the moss draped areas mean Very little, and are a part of the scenery to which he is accustomed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Annual Report of the Commissioner of Fisheries to the Secretary of Commerce for the Fiscal Year Ended ...
Author: United States. Bureau of FisheriesPublisher:
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Category : Fisheries
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Report of the United States Commissioner of Fisheries for the Fiscal Year ... with Appendixes
Author: United States. Bureau of FisheriesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fisheries
Languages : en
Pages : 636
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Progress in Biological Inquiries
Author: United States. Bureau of FisheriesPublisher:
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Category : Fishes
Languages : en
Pages : 650
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The Place with No Edge
Author: Adam MandelmanPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807173193
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
In The Place with No Edge, Adam Mandelman follows three centuries of human efforts to inhabit and control the lower Mississippi River delta, the vast watery flatlands spreading across much of southern Louisiana. He finds that people’s use of technology to tame unruly nature in the region has produced interdependence with—rather than independence from—the environment. Created over millennia by deposits of silt and sand, the Mississippi River delta is one of the most dynamic landscapes in North America. From the eighteenth-century establishment of the first French fort below New Orleans to the creation of Louisiana’s Coastal Master Plan in the 2000s, people have attempted to harness and master this landscape through technology. Mandelman examines six specific interventions employed in the delta over time: levees, rice flumes, pullboats, geophysical surveys, dredgers, and petroleum cracking. He demonstrates that even as people seemed to gain control over the environment, they grew more deeply intertwined with—and vulnerable to—it. The greatest folly, Mandelman argues, is to believe that technology affords mastery. Environmental catastrophes of coastal land loss and petrochemical pollution may appear to be disconnected, but both emerged from the same fantasy of harnessing nature to technology. Similarly, the levee system’s failures and the subsequent deluge after Hurricane Katrina owe as much to centuries of human entanglement with the delta as to global warming’s rising seas and strengthening storms. The Place with No Edge advocates for a deeper understanding of humans’ relationship with nature. It provides compelling evidence that altering the environment—whether to make it habitable, profitable, or navigable —inevitably brings a response, sometimes with unanticipated consequences. Mandelman encourages a mindfulness of the ways that our inventions engage with nature and a willingness to intervene in responsible, respectful ways.
Spirit Leveling in South Carolina, 1896-1938
Author: John George StaackPublisher:
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Category : Bench-marks
Languages : en
Pages : 1480
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Ain't There No More
Author: Carl A. BrasseauxPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496809513
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Winner of the 2018 Louisiana Literary Award given by the Louisiana Library Association For centuries, outlanders have openly denigrated Louisiana's coastal wetlands residents and their stubborn refusal to abandon the region's fragile prairies tremblants despite repeated natural and, more recently, man-made disasters. Yet, the cumulative environmental knowledge these wetlands survivors have gained through painful experiences over the course of two centuries holds invaluable keys to the successful adaptation of modern coastal communities throughout the globe. As Hurricane Sandy recently demonstrated, coastal peoples everywhere face rising sea levels, disastrous coastal erosion, and, inevitably, difficult lifestyle choices. Along the Bayou State's coast the most insidious challenges are man-made. Since channelization of the Mississippi River in the wake of the 1927 flood, which diverted sediments and nutrients from the wetlands, coastal Louisiana has lost to erosion, subsidence, and rising sea levels a land mass roughly twice the size of Connecticut. State and national policymakers were unable to reverse this environmental catastrophe until Hurricane Katrina focused a harsh spotlight on the human consequences of eight decades of neglect. Yet, even today, the welfare of Louisiana's coastal plain residents remains, at best, an afterthought in state and national policy discussions. For coastal families, the Gulf water lapping at the doorstep makes this morass by no means a scholarly debate over abstract problems. Ain't There No More renders an easily read history filled with new insights and possibilities. Rare, previously unpublished images documenting a disappearing way of life accompany the narrative. The authors bring nearly a century of combined experience to distilling research and telling this story in a way invaluable to Louisianans, to policymakers, and to all those concerned with rising sea levels and seeking a long-term solution.