Author: Ronald C. MeyerPublisher:
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Category : Ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 6
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Natural Environments of Wisconsin
Author: Ronald C. MeyerPublisher:
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Category : Ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 6
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Wisconsin State Parks
Author: Scott SpoolmanPublisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN: 0870208500
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
Hit the trail for a dramatic look at Wisconsin’s geologic past. The impressive bluffs, valleys, waterfalls, and lakes of Wisconsin’s state parks provide more than beautiful scenery and recreational opportunities. They are windows into the distant past, offering clues to the dramatic events that have shaped the land over billions of years. Author and former DNR journalist Scott Spoolman takes readers with him to twenty-eight parks, forests, and natural areas where evidence of the state’s striking geologic and natural history are on display. In an accessible storytelling style, Spoolman sheds light on the volcanoes that poured deep layers of lava rock over a vast area in the northwest, the glacial masses that flattened and molded the landscape of northern and eastern Wisconsin, mountain ranges that rose up and wore away over hundreds of millions of years, and many other bedrock-shaping phenomena. These stories connect geologic processes to the current landscape, as well as to the evolution of flora and fauna and development of human settlement and activities, for a deeper understanding of our state’s natural history. The book includes a selection of detailed trail guides for each park, which hikers can take with them on the trail to view evidence of Wisconsin’s geologic and natural history for themselves.
The Vanishing Present
Author: Donald M. WallerPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226871746
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Straddling temperate forests and grassland biomes and stretching along the coastline of two Great Lakes, Wisconsin contains tallgrass prairie and oak savanna, broadleaf and coniferous forests, wetlands, natural lakes, and rivers. But, like the rest of the world, the Badger State has been transformed by urbanization and sprawl, population growth, and land-use change. For decades, industry and environment have attempted to coexist in Wisconsin—and the dynamic tensions between economic progress and environmental protection makes the state a fascinating microcosm for studying global environmental change. The Vanishing Present brings together a distinguished set of contributors—including scientists, naturalists, and policy experts—to examine how human pressures on Wisconsin’s changing lands, waters, and wildlife have redefined the state’s ecology. Though they focus on just one state, the authors draw conclusions about changes in temperate habitats that can be applied elsewhere, and offer useful insights into future of the ecology, conservation, and sustainability of Wisconsin and beyond. A fitting tribute to the home state of Aldo Leopold and John Muir, The Vanishing Present is an accessible and timely case study of a significant ecosystem and its response to environmental change.
Prevention, Environment, Prosperity Award
Author: Wisconsin. Department of Natural Resources. Office of Pollution PreventionPublisher:
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Category : Environmental protection
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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Managing Wisconsin's Natural Resources
Author: Wisconsin. Natural Resources Council of State AgenciesPublisher:
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Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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Natural Environment, Portage County, Wisconsin, Including the Stevens Point Urban Area
Author: Portage County Areawide Planning Committee (Wis.)Publisher:
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Category : Regional planning
Languages : en
Pages : 101
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Wisconsin, Naturally
Author: The Relationship Between the Natural Environment and the Spatial Structure of a City
Author: Mari LahtinenThe Relation of WLCS, 420/3 to the Wisconsin Environmental Policy Act
Author: John StolzenbergPublisher:
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Category : Environmental protection
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Education Connection
Author: Wisconsin. Department of Natural ResourcesPublisher:
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Category : Environmental education
Languages : en
Pages :
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