Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on ResourcesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Scientific Assessments of Declining Pelagic Fish Populations in the California Bay-Delta
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on ResourcesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Scientific Assessments of Declining Pelagic Fish Populations in the California Bay-Delta
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on ResourcesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
After the Grizzly
Author: Peter S. AlagonaPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520954416
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Thoroughly researched and finely crafted, After the Grizzly traces the history of endangered species and habitat in California, from the time of the Gold Rush to the present. Peter S. Alagona shows how scientists and conservationists came to view the fates of endangered species as inextricable from ecological conditions and human activities in the places where those species lived. Focusing on the stories of four high-profile endangered species—the California condor, desert tortoise, Delta smelt, and San Joaquin kit fox—Alagona offers an absorbing account of how Americans developed a political system capable of producing and sustaining debates in which imperiled species serve as proxies for broader conflicts about the politics of place. The challenge for conservationists in the twenty-first century, this book claims, will be to redefine habitat conservation beyond protected wildlands to build more diverse and sustainable landscapes.
CIS Annual
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Legislative Calendar
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on ResourcesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Calendars
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Environmental Water Account
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ecosystem management
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Ecosystems of California
Author: Harold MooneyPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520278801
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
Book Description
This long-anticipated reference and sourcebook for CaliforniaÕs remarkable ecological abundance provides an integrated assessment of each major ecosystem typeÑits distribution, structure, function, and management. A comprehensive synthesis of our knowledge about this biologically diverse state, Ecosystems of California covers the state from oceans to mountaintops using multiple lenses: past and present, flora and fauna, aquatic and terrestrial, natural and managed. Each chapter evaluates natural processes for a specific ecosystem, describes drivers of change, and discusses how that ecosystem may be altered in the future. This book also explores the drivers of CaliforniaÕs ecological patterns and the history of the stateÕs various ecosystems, outlining how the challenges of climate change and invasive species and opportunities for regulation and stewardship could potentially affect the stateÕs ecosystems. The text explicitly incorporates both human impacts and conservation and restoration efforts and shows how ecosystems support human well-being. Edited by two esteemed ecosystem ecologists and with overviews by leading experts on each ecosystem, this definitive work will be indispensable for natural resource management and conservation professionals as well as for undergraduate or graduate students of CaliforniaÕs environment and curious naturalists.
Federal Register
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Delegated legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The California Nitrogen Assessment
Author: Thomas P. TomichPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520287126
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
"Collaborating Institutions: Agricultural Sustainability Institute at UC Davis, UC ANR Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program, UC ANR Kearney Foundation of Soil Science, UC ANR Agricultural Issues Center, UC ANR California Institute for Water Resources, Water Science and Policy Center at UC Riverside."
Sustainable Water and Environmental Management in the California Bay-Delta
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309256224
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Extensively modified over the last century and a half, California's San Francisco Bay Delta Estuary remains biologically diverse and functions as a central element in California's water supply system. Uncertainties about the future, actions taken under the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA) and companion California statues, and lawsuits have led to conflict concerning the timing and amount of water that can be diverted from the Delta for agriculture, municipal, and industrial purposes and concerning how much water is needed to protect the Delta ecosystem and its component species. Sustainable Water and Environmental Management in the California Bay-Delta focuses on scientific questions, assumptions, and conclusions underlying water-management alternatives and reviews the initial public draft of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan in terms of adequacy of its use of science and adaptive management. In addition, this report identifies the factors that may be contributing to the decline of federally listed species, recommend future water-supple and delivery options that reflect proper consideration of climate change and compatibility with objectives of maintaining a sustainable Bay-Delta ecosystem, advises what degree of restoration of the Delta system is likely to be attainable, and provides metrics that can be used by resource managers to measure progress toward restoration goals.