Author: Gary Paul Nabhan
Publisher: Bibly Research Occasional Pape
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
"In recent years, the American West has suffered from unprecedented stand-replacing wildfires, and the government has invested more money in preventative forest thinning than ever before. The crisis for Western forests and woodlands has spurred heated policy debates about thinning, controlled burns, and other restoration activities"-- p. [1]
Woodlands in Crisis
Author: Gary Paul Nabhan
Publisher: Bibly Research Occasional Pape
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
"In recent years, the American West has suffered from unprecedented stand-replacing wildfires, and the government has invested more money in preventative forest thinning than ever before. The crisis for Western forests and woodlands has spurred heated policy debates about thinning, controlled burns, and other restoration activities"-- p. [1]
Publisher: Bibly Research Occasional Pape
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
"In recent years, the American West has suffered from unprecedented stand-replacing wildfires, and the government has invested more money in preventative forest thinning than ever before. The crisis for Western forests and woodlands has spurred heated policy debates about thinning, controlled burns, and other restoration activities"-- p. [1]
Secrets of the Oak Woodlands
Author: Kate Marianchild
Publisher: Heyday Books
ISBN: 9781597142625
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
A Californian may vacation in Yosemite, Big Sur, or Death Valley, but many of us come home to an oak woodland. Yet, while common, oak woodlands are anything but ordinary. In a book rich in illustration and suffused with wonder, author Kate Marianchild combines extensive research and years of personal experience to explore some of the marvelous plants and animals that the oak woodlands nurture. Acorn woodpeckers unite in marriages of up to ten mates and raise their young cooperatively. Ground squirrels roll in rattlesnake skins to hide their scent from hungry snakes. Manzanita's rust-colored, paper-thin bark peels away in time for the summer solstice, exposing sinuous contours that are cool to the touch even on the hottest day. Conveying up-to-the-minute scientific findings with a storyteller's skill, Marianchild introduces us to a host of remarkable creatures in a world close by, a world that "rustles, hums, and sings with the sounds of wild things."
Publisher: Heyday Books
ISBN: 9781597142625
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
A Californian may vacation in Yosemite, Big Sur, or Death Valley, but many of us come home to an oak woodland. Yet, while common, oak woodlands are anything but ordinary. In a book rich in illustration and suffused with wonder, author Kate Marianchild combines extensive research and years of personal experience to explore some of the marvelous plants and animals that the oak woodlands nurture. Acorn woodpeckers unite in marriages of up to ten mates and raise their young cooperatively. Ground squirrels roll in rattlesnake skins to hide their scent from hungry snakes. Manzanita's rust-colored, paper-thin bark peels away in time for the summer solstice, exposing sinuous contours that are cool to the touch even on the hottest day. Conveying up-to-the-minute scientific findings with a storyteller's skill, Marianchild introduces us to a host of remarkable creatures in a world close by, a world that "rustles, hums, and sings with the sounds of wild things."
The Crisis
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
The Crisis, founded by W.E.B. Du Bois as the official publication of the NAACP, is a journal of civil rights, history, politics, and culture and seeks to educate and challenge its readers about issues that continue to plague African Americans and other communities of color. For nearly 100 years, The Crisis has been the magazine of opinion and thought leaders, decision makers, peacemakers and justice seekers. It has chronicled, informed, educated, entertained and, in many instances, set the economic, political and social agenda for our nation and its multi-ethnic citizens.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
The Crisis, founded by W.E.B. Du Bois as the official publication of the NAACP, is a journal of civil rights, history, politics, and culture and seeks to educate and challenge its readers about issues that continue to plague African Americans and other communities of color. For nearly 100 years, The Crisis has been the magazine of opinion and thought leaders, decision makers, peacemakers and justice seekers. It has chronicled, informed, educated, entertained and, in many instances, set the economic, political and social agenda for our nation and its multi-ethnic citizens.
The Crisis
Author: William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
A record of the darker races.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
A record of the darker races.
Proceedings
Forestry Research West
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
The Genesis of FORPLAN
Author: David C. Iverson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest management
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest management
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Woodland Conservation and Management
Author: G. F. Peterken
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 148992857X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Professor John Harper, in his recent Population Biology of Plants (1977), made a comment and asked a question which effectively states the theme of this book. Noting that 'one of the consequences of the development of the theory of vegetational climax has been to guide the observer's mind forwards', i. e. that 'vegetation is interpreted asa stage on the way to something', he commented that 'it might be more healthy and scientifically more sound to look more often backwards and search for the explanation of the present in the past, to explain systems in relation to their history rather than their goal'. He went on to contrast the 'disaster theory' of plant succession, which holds that communities are a response to the effects of past disasters, with the 'climax theory', that they are stages in the approach to a climax state, and then asked 'do we account most completely for the characteristics of a population by a knowledge of its history or of its destiny?' Had this question been put to R. S. Adamson, E. J. Salisbury, A. G. Tansley or A. S. Watt, who are amongst the giants of the first forty years of woodland ecology in Britain, their answer would surely have been that understanding lies in a knowledge of destiny. Whilst not unaware of the historical facts of British woodlands, they were preoccupied with ideas of natural succession and climax, and tended to interpret their observations in these terms.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 148992857X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Professor John Harper, in his recent Population Biology of Plants (1977), made a comment and asked a question which effectively states the theme of this book. Noting that 'one of the consequences of the development of the theory of vegetational climax has been to guide the observer's mind forwards', i. e. that 'vegetation is interpreted asa stage on the way to something', he commented that 'it might be more healthy and scientifically more sound to look more often backwards and search for the explanation of the present in the past, to explain systems in relation to their history rather than their goal'. He went on to contrast the 'disaster theory' of plant succession, which holds that communities are a response to the effects of past disasters, with the 'climax theory', that they are stages in the approach to a climax state, and then asked 'do we account most completely for the characteristics of a population by a knowledge of its history or of its destiny?' Had this question been put to R. S. Adamson, E. J. Salisbury, A. G. Tansley or A. S. Watt, who are amongst the giants of the first forty years of woodland ecology in Britain, their answer would surely have been that understanding lies in a knowledge of destiny. Whilst not unaware of the historical facts of British woodlands, they were preoccupied with ideas of natural succession and climax, and tended to interpret their observations in these terms.
Forestry in Crisis
Author: Steve Tompkins
Publisher: Trafalgar Square Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Publisher: Trafalgar Square Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
General Technical Report INT.
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description