Natural History Theme Studies
Title | Natural History Theme Studies PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1060 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Natural areas |
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Natural History Theme Studies
Title | Natural History Theme Studies PDF eBook |
Author | National Park Service (Washington, D.C.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | |
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The Poetics of Natural History
Title | The Poetics of Natural History PDF eBook |
Author | Christoph Irmscher |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 2019-09-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1978805861 |
Newly expanded and in full color, this groundbreaking book argues that early American natural historians had a distinctly poetic sensibility, producing work that had a visionary intensity. Covering naturalists from John James Audubon to PT Barnum, it considers not only natural history writing, but also illustrations, photographs, and actual collections of flora and fauna. Photography and all associated expenses made possible by a generous grant from Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund
Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1976
Title | Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1976 PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1328 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | United States |
ISBN |
Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1975
Title | Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1975 PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1092 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Hearings
Title | Hearings PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1308 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Water
Title | Water PDF eBook |
Author | Alice Outwater |
Publisher | Basic Books |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2008-08-06 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0786725818 |
An environmental engineer turned ecology writer relates the history of our waterways and her own growing understanding of what needs to be done to save this essential natural resource. Water: A Natural History takes us back to the diaries of the first Western explorers; it moves from the reservoir to the modern toilet, from the grasslands of the Midwest to the Everglades of Florida, through the guts of a wastewater treatment plant and out to the waterways again. It shows how human-engineered dams, canals and farms replaced nature's beaver dams, prairie dog tunnels, and buffalo wallows. Step by step, Outwater makes clear what should have always been obvious: while engineering can de-pollute water, only ecologically interacting systems can create healthy waterways. Important reading for students of environmental studies, the heart of this history is a vision of our land and waterways as they once were, and a plan that can restore them to their former glory: a land of living streams, public lands with hundreds of millions of beaver-built wetlands, prairie dog towns that increase the amount of rainfall that percolates to the groundwater, and forests that feed their fallen trees to the sea.