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Category : Forest management
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Proceedings of the Symposium on Giant Sequoias: Their Place in the Ecosystem and Society
Author: Ecology of Redwood and the Impact of Man's Use of the Redwood Forest as a Site for Recreational Activities
Author: Joe McBridePublisher:
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Category : Coast redwood
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Report on the Effects of Human Impact Upon the Giant Sequoias of the Mariposa and Tuolumne Groves, Yosemite National Park, 1954
Author: R. N. McIntyrePublisher:
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Category : Giant sequoia
Languages : en
Pages : 86
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General Technical Report PSW.
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 704
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Fire and the Environment
Author: King Sequoia
Author: William C. TweedPublisher: Heyday.ORIM
ISBN: 1597143561
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
A naturist and historian for the National Parks Service offers a lively history of the giant sequoias of California and the love of nature they inspired. Former park ranger William C. Tweed takes readers on a tour of some of the world’s largest and oldest trees in a narrative that travels deep into the Sierra Nevada mountains, across the American West, and all the way to New Zealand. Along the way, he explores the American public's evolving relationship with sequoias, also known simply and affectionately as Big Trees. It’s no surprise that the sequoia groves of Yosemite and Calaveras were early tourist destinations. The species was the embodiment of California's superlative appeal. These giant redwoods were so beloved that special protections efforts sprang up to protect them from logging interests—and so began the notion of National Parks. Later, as science evolved to consider landscapes more holistically, sequoias once again played a major role in shaping this new perspective. Featuring a fascinating cast of adventurers, researchers, politicians, and environmentalists, King Sequoia reveals how one tree species transformed Americans' connection to the natural world.
Yosemite and Sequoia
Author: Richard J. OrsiPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520339878
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
A century and a quarter ago, the national park idea was born when Abraham Lincoln signed legislation setting aside Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias "for public use, resort, and recreation inalienable for all time." Over the next decade, the Yosemite park commissioners had to fight private land claims to the valley. By 1890, however, a public park system was firmly established in California when the Yosemite high country and much of what is now Sequoia and King's Canyon National Parks were set aside as federally protected, public preserves. This collection of essays and photographs, originally published as a special issue of California History, documents the creation and management of California's first three national parks. As the essays remind us, the issues of park development so hotly debated today were raised first in Yosemite nearly a century ago. Yosemite's significance in landscape art, its role in the development of western tourism, and its promotion as one of the great icons of American culture are among the other major themes discussed here.
A Report by the Advisory Committee to the National Park Service on Research of the National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Advisory Committee to the National Park Service on ResearchPublisher:
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Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Historic Resource Study: Historical narrative
Author: Linda W. GreenePublisher:
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Category : Yosemite National Park (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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