Author: N. Robin MorganPublisher:
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Category : Trees in cities
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
An Introductory Guide to Urban and Community Forestry Programs
Author: N. Robin MorganPublisher:
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Category : Trees in cities
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Developing and Establishing Urban and Community Forestry Programs
Author: Planting Nature
Author: Shaul E. CohenPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520929918
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Trees hold a powerful place in American constructions of what is good in nature and the environment. As we attempt to cope with environmental crises, trees are increasingly enlisted with great fervor as agents of our stewardship over nature. In this innovative and impassioned book, Shaul E. Cohen exposes the way that environmental stewardship is undermined through the manipulation of trees and the people who plant them by a partnership of big business, the government, and tree-planting groups. He reveals how positive associations and symbols that have been invested in trees are exploited by an interlocking network of government agencies, private timber companies, and nongovernmental organizations to subvert the power of people who think that they are building a better world. Planting Nature details the history of tree planting in the United States and the rise of popular sentiment around trees, including the development of the Arbor Day holiday and tree-planting groups such as the National Arbor Day Foundation and American Forests. Drawing from internal papers, government publications, advertisements, and archival documents, Cohen illustrates how organizations promote tree planting as a way of shifting attention away from the causes of environmental problems to their symptoms, masking business-as-usual agendas. Ultimately, Planting Nature challenges the relationships between a "green" public, the organizations that promote their causes, and the "powers that be," providing a cautionary tale of cooperation and deception that cuts across the political spectrum.
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
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Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1410
Book Description
An Introductory Guide to Community and Urban Forestry in Washington, Oregon and California
Author: Minority Outreach Guide, Urban and Community Forestry
Author: Urban & Community Forestry
Author: Craig William JohnsonPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
High Plains Horticulture
Author: John F. FreemanPublisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 0870819275
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
High Plains Horticulture explores the significant, civilizing role that horticulture has played in the development of farmsteads and rural and urban communities on the High Plains portions of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming, drawing on both the science and the application of science practiced since 1840. Freeman explores early efforts to supplement native and imported foodstuffs, state and local encouragement to plant trees, the practice of horticulture at the Union Colony of Greeley, the pioneering activities of economic botanists Charles Bessey (in Nebraska) and Aven Nelson (in Wyoming), and the shift from food production to community beautification as the High Plains were permanently settled and became more urbanized. In approaching the history of horticulture from the perspective of local and unofficial history, Freeman pays tribute to the tempered idealism, learned pragmatism, and perseverance of individuals from all walks of life seeking to create livable places out of the vast, seemingly inhospitable High Plains. He also suggests that, slowly but surely, those that inhabit them have been learning to adjust to the limits of that fragile land. High Plains Horticulture will appeal to not only scientists and professionals but also gardening enthusiasts interested in the history of their hobby on the High Plains.
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