Author: Michael J. Caduto
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9780874515091
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Introduces readers to the intriguing world of freshwater life.

Author: Michael J. Caduto
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN: 9780136851080
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Examines the interrelatedness of the plants and animals in freshwater habitats and offers tips on observing freshwater wildlife

Author: Jim Arnosky
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Slick salamanders, speedy catfish, curious crayfish, and other creatures are featured in an illustrated introduction to freshwater brooks and streams.

Author: Jill Sinclair
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262195917
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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The history of Fresh Pond Reservation—onetime summer retreat for wealthy Bostonians, center of the nineteenth-century ice industry, and stomping grounds for Harvard students—told through photographs, maps and plans, and stories. Fresh Pond Reservation, at the northwest edge of Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been described as a “landscape loved to death.” Certainly it is a landscape that has been changed by its various uses over the years and one to which Cantabridgeans and Bostonians have felt an intense attachment. Henry James returned to it in his sixties, looking for “some echo of the dreams of youth,” feeling keenly “the pleasure of memory”; a Harvard student of the 1850s fondly remembered skating parties and the chance of “flirtation with some fair-ankled beauty of breezy Boston”; modern residents argue fiercely over dogs being allowed to run free at the reservation and whether soccer or nature is a more valuable experience for Cambridge schoolchildren. In Fresh Pond, Jill Sinclair tells the story of the pond and its surrounding land through photographs, drawings, maps, plans, and an engaging narrative of the pond's geological, historical, and political ecology. Fresh Pond has been a Native American hunting and fishing ground; the site of an eighteenth-century hotel offering bowling, food and wine, and impromptu performances by Harvard men; a summer retreat for wealthy Bostonians; a training ground for trench warfare; a location for picnics and festivals for workers and sporting activities for all. The parkland features an Olmsted design, albeit an imperfectly realized one. The pond itself—a natural lake carved out by the retreating Ice Age about 15,000 years ago—was a center of the nineteenth-century ice industry (disparaged by Thoreau, writing about another pond), and still supplies the city of Cambridge with fresh drinking water. Sinclair's celebration of a local landscape also alerts us to broader issues—shifts in public attitudes toward nature (is it brutal wilderness or in need of protection?) and water (precious commodity or limitless flow?)—that resonate as we remake our relationship to the landscape.

Author: Ed Wargin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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If you're a fan of the classic Anatomy of a Murder, then you already know about Robert Traver, the author. But what about John Voelker, the man? They're one in the same. Attempting to escape his literary trappings as an author, Voelker sought refuge in fly fishing and writing about his treasured pastime up north in Michigan. His friend Charles Kuralt called him the closest thing to a great man (he) ever met. Explore this special Michigan pictorial by photographer Ed Wargin and writer James McCullough.

Author: Bob Mallard
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0811766144
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Brook trout are native in the Eastern United States and were the most important fly rod gamefish for early anglers, until they were supplanted by nonnative brown and rainbow trout. Today, brook trout are indicators of cold, clean water and healthy ecosystems, and in almost every place they are found, anglers will also find wild country and relative solitude. They have been introduced throughout the Rocky Mountains, where they grow large and abundant. This is the most complete guide to brook trout ever written and not only includes information on tackle and techniques but important conservation information and an in-depth section on top brook trout destinations, from Maine to Argentina. With a foreword by Ted Williams.

Author: Myke Johnson
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365566862
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 181

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In this time of ecological crisis, all that is holy calls us into a more intimate partnership with the diverse and beautiful beings of this earth. In Finding Our Way Home, Myke Johnson reflects on her personal journey into such a partnership and offers a guide for others to begin this path. Lyrically expressed, it weaves together lessons from a chamomile flower, a small bird, a copper beech tree, a garden slug, and a forest fern, along with insights from Indigenous philosophy, environmental science, fractal geometry, childhood Catholic mysticism, the prophet Elijah, fairy tales, and permaculture design. This eco-spiritual journey also wrestles with the history of our society's destruction of the natural world, and its roots in the original theft of the land from Indigenous peoples. Exploring the spiritual dimensions of our brokenness, it offers tools to create healing. Finding Our Way Home is a ceremony to remember our essential unity with all of life.

Author: Marilyn Singer
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780375823763
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Such poems as "Babbling Brook, " "Spring in the Garden, " "Watercolors, " "City River, " and "Ocean Checklist" present some of the many facets of water.

Author: Donald A. Storck
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Green Pond Brook (N.J.)
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Author: Louise Dickinson Rich
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780892720163
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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In her early thirties, Louise Dickinson Rich took to the woods of Maine with her husband. They found their livelihood and raised a family in the remote backcountry settlement of Middle Dam, in the Rangeley area. Louise made time after morning chores to write about their lives.