Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wildlife conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Report Series
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wildlife conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Key Migratory Bird Terrestrial Habitat Sites in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut
Author: Paul Bernard LatourPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Describes key terrestrial habitat areas that are essential to the welfare of various migratory bird species in Canada.
Akhuurutauyut Nayugangit Tingmiaqnut Nunavunmi
Author: Canadian Wildlife ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Key Migratory Bird Terrestrial Habitat Sites in the Northwest Territories
Author: Stuart A. AlexanderPublisher:
ISBN: 9780662189886
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Identifies and describes 80 key habitat sites in NWT which are essential to the welfare of various migratory bird species in Canada.
Voices from Hudson Bay
Author: Flora BeardyPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773514406
Category : Cree Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
In Voices from Hudson Bay Cree elders recall the daily lives and experiences of the men and women who lived and worked at the Hudson's Bay Company post at York Factory in Manitoba. Their stories, their memories of family, community, and daily life, define their past and provide insights into a way of life that has largely disappeared in northern Canada.
Canadian Inland Seas
Author: I.P. MartiniPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080870821
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 515
Book Description
The various chapters of this book have been written by researchers who are still working in the Canadian Inland Seas region. The chapters synthesize what is known about these seas, yet much still is to be learnt. It is hoped that this collection of information will serve as a springboard for future, much needed, studies in this fascinating, diverse region, and will stimulate comparative analyses with other subarctic and arctic basins of the world. The Canadian Inland Seas are the only remnants, albeit cold, of the ancient cratonic marine basins which occupied central North America throughout the Paleozoic and part of the Mesozoic. Precambrian rocks and gently dipping Paleozoic sedimentary rocks underlie the seas. The area is also close to the centers of Pleistocene glaciations. The coastal areas represent an emerged landscape of the post-glacial Tyrrell sea, as the region has been isostatically uplifted to about 350 meters since glacial times. A total of 56 fish species inhabit Hudson Bay and James Bay. Seals, whales and one of the largest and southernmost populations of polar bears inhabit the seas as well. The coastal areas are important habitats for migratory bird populations, some of which migrate from as far away as Southern Argentina.The ostic environment has preserved these regions relatively unchanged by man, with only a major harbour at Churchill, Manitoba, which is active for part of the year, and a second large, rail-terminal settlement in the south at Moosonee, Ontario. A few, small, native Indian and Inuit villages dot the coasts. The seas are being affected indirectly by the damming of rivers for the generation of hydroelectric power, and by drainage diversions towards the man-made reservoirs. A major project is being completed in Quebec east of James Bay, but other rivers in Ontario and Manitoba have been dammed as well. Undoubtedly freshwater is one of the more important resources of the area, however its exploitation needs careful thought because of the possible long-range effects on the environment, particularly the coastal marshes, which sustain much of the eastern American intercontinental migratory avifauna. Other resources occur in the regions, primarily minerals and perhaps petroleum. For the most part however, such resources remain to be discovered.
Turmoil and Triumph
Author: Ian BicklePublisher: Calgary : Detselig Enterprises Limited
ISBN: 9781550591071
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This is a story of courage and adventure. It reveals how workers struggled through long days, enduring extreme weather, pests, and the often poor food and housing, as they built a railway through the difficult terrain of Canada's northern wilderness to Churchill, Manitoba. Author Ian Bickle provides rare insight into the survey parties who explored this region of ice, snow, swamp and muskeg. He gives a historical account of the organizations, such as the RNWMP (later RCMP), that helped bring order and discipline to the rugged life on the line, and Frontier College teachers, who assisted the workers in their labors and their education. The men who surveyed the Bay route, the workers who built it and the people who keep it alive have raised the level of human achievement in Canada. Their story is an important and colorful part of Canadian history.
Antarctic Bird Studies
Author: National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council. American Geophysical UnionPublisher: American Geophysical Union
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
New Green World
Author: Josephine HerbstPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
New Green World, first published in 1954, is a fascinating look at the life of American naturalist John Bartram (1699-1777) and his explorations across the newly formed United States. At his home near Philadelphia, he established America's first botanical garden, which exists to the present day. The book details his travels and interactions with prominent figures of his day, and his many discoveries and collections of plants unique to the Americas. Author's note from the first edition dust-jacket: I began to be interested in the Bartrams, father and son, because of a flower in my Pennsylvania garden but I stayed with them through New Green World because they were so alive, though long dead. Living for more than themselves, they were unafraid of new horizons and so their story breaks through parochial notions of our historical past to reach around the world. Long neglected, the Bartrams broke ground for Audubon, Thoreau and many others. The plants they rescued from the wilderness survive; the vitality of their search speaks to us today.
Extinct and Vanishing Mammals of the Old World
Author: Francis HarperPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781016292139
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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