Excerpt from Physical, Biological and Cultural Resources of the Gund Research and Demonstration Ranch, Nevada Grass Valley and adjacent central Nevada comprise one of the most remote areas in the contiguous 48 States of the United States. The high valleys of central Nevada are separated by towering fault - block mountain ranges arranged in echelons with the ridgelines oriented roughly north to south. Everything is on a large scale in central Nevada except the density of human population. Viewed from any crest of the mountains, the landscape appears to consist of an endless series of bluish - silver ridges diminishing in magnitude at the horizons. Viewed from the center of one of the large valleys, the landscape appears to consist of an immense flat whose association with the mountain ranges is indistinct because of the omnipresent heat mirage and the intense glare reflecting from light - col ored, often salt - encrusted soils. Russell (1885) described central Nevada as a place where the mountains did not have enough vegetation to clothe their naked ness, and you could ride in the valleys all day on horseback and never find suf ficient shade for horse or rider. This area is on the verge of a dynamic period of resource development. Central Nevada has known several cycles of mineral exploitation. Austin and Eureka, the county seats of Lander and Eureka Counties, were centers of silver mining beginning in the l86o's. Mineral and gem stone mining are still impor tant in the economics of the new small towns also, exploration for gas, oil, and geothermal energy is actively underway in the area. The lure of open space. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Ecosystems and Human Well-Being is the first product of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, a four-year international work program designed to meet the needs of decisionmakers for scientific information on the links between ecosystem change and human well-being. The book offers an overview of the project, describing the conceptual framework that is being used, defining its scope, and providing a baseline of understanding that all participants need to move forward. The Millennium Assessment focuses on how humans have altered ecosystems, and how changes in ecosystem services have affected human well-being, how ecosystem changes may affect people in future decades, and what types of responses can be adopted at local, national, or global scales to improve ecosystem management and thereby contribute to human well-being and poverty alleviation. The program was launched by United National Secretary-General Kofi Annan in June 2001, and the primary assessment reports will be released by Island Press in 2005. Leading scientists from more than 100 nations are conducting the assessment, which can aid countries, regions, or companies by: providing a clear, scientific picture of the current sta

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Report on world trends and long term prospects regarding population growth, natural resources and environmental issues - emphasizing the interrelationships between these areas, presents integrated approach projections to the year 2000 of fishery resources, forests, power resources, water resources, mineral resources, agriculture, climate and nuclear energy, etc., And includes a comparison of global model forecasting techniques. Diagrams, graphs, maps, references and statistical tables.

The book that launched environmental history, William Cronon's Changes in the Land, now revised and updated. Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize In this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of capitalism had upon the ecosystems of New England. Reissued here with an updated afterword by the author and a new preface by the distinguished colonialist John Demos, Changes in the Land, provides a brilliant inter-disciplinary interpretation of how land and people influence one another. With its chilling closing line, "The people of plenty were a people of waste," Cronon's enduring and thought-provoking book is ethno-ecological history at its best.

Bruch, a senior attorney of the Environmental Law Institute, presents work from an April 2003 symposium co-sponsored by the Environmental Law Institute, the United Nations University, and other institutions. Papers from the symposium identify innovative approaches in watershed management and look at political, linguistic, legal, cultural, and geogr