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Category : Nurseries (Horticulture)
Languages : en
Pages : 374

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Category : Nurseries (Horticulture)
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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Category : Nurseries (Horticulture)
Languages : en
Pages : 570

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Category : Nurseries (Horticulture)
Languages : en
Pages : 642

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Category : Nurseries (Horticulture)
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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Author: Anonymous
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ISBN: 9783337992279
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Languages : en
Pages : 180

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Author: Chris Wilhelm
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820362409
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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This book chronicles the creation of Everglades National Park, the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States. This effort, which spanned 1928 to 1958, was of central importance to the later emergence of modern environmentalism. Prior to the park’s creation, the Everglades was seen as a reviled and useless swamp, unfit for typical recreational or development projects. The region’s unusual makeup also made it an unlikely candidate to become a national park, as it had none of the sweeping scenic vistas or geological monuments found in other nationally protected areas. Park advocates drew on new ideas concerning the value of biota and ecology, the importance of wilderness, and the need to protect habitats, marine ecosystems, and plant life to redefine the Everglades. Using these ideas, the Everglades began to be recognized as an ecologically valuable and fragile wetland—and thus a region in need of protective status. While these new ideas foreshadowed the later emergence of modern environmentalism, tourism and the economic desires of Florida’s business and political elites also impacted the park’s future. These groups saw the Everglades’ unique biology and ecology as a foundation on which to build a tourism empire. They connected the Everglades to Florida’s modernization and commercialization, hoping the park would help facilitate the state’s transformation into the Sunshine State. Political conservatives welcomed federal power into Florida so long as it brought economic growth. Yet, even after the park’s creation, conservative landowners successfully fought to limit the park and saw it as a threat to their own economic freedoms. Today, a series of levees on the park’s eastern border marks the line between urban and protected areas, but development into these areas threatens the park system. Rising sea levels caused by global warming are another threat to the future of the park. The battle to save the swamp’s biodiversity continues, and Everglades Park stands at the center of ongoing restoration efforts.

Author: American Association of Nurserymen
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781020472862
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This informative guide is a must-read for anyone involved in the nursery industry. From tips on growing and cultivating plants to advice on marketing and selling nursery stock, this publication covers it all. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Category : Floriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 864

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Author: American Association of Nurserymen
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Category : Horticulture
Languages : en
Pages : 1176

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