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Author : D. Lonsdale
Publisher : Much-in-Little
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biodiversity conservation
ISBN : 0904853098
Author : Helen J. Read
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Forest management
ISBN : 1857164741
Author : Ian D. Rotherham
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Forest ecology
ISBN : 9781904098669
Author : Jim Robbins
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781847659033
This is an extraordinary book about trees. It's an account by a veteran science journalist that ranges to the limits of scientific understanding: how trees produce aerosols for protection and 'warnings'; the curative effects of 'forest bathing' in Japan; or the impact of trees in fertilizing ocean plankton. There is even science to show that trees are connected to the stars. Trees and forests are far more than just plants: they have myriad functions that help maintain the atmosphere and biosphere. As climate change increases, they will become even more critical to buffer the effects of warmer temperatures, clean our water and air and provide food. If they remain standing. The global forest is also in crisis, and when the oldest trees in the world suddenly start dying - across North America, Europe, the Amazon - it's time to pay attention. At the heart of this remarkable exploration of the power of trees is the amazing story of one man, a shade tree farmer named David Milarch, and his quest to clone the oldest and largest trees - from the California redwoods to the oaks of Ireland - to protect the ancient genetics and use them to reforest the planet.
Author : P. A. Thomas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000-02-13
Category : Nature
ISBN : 052145963X
Trees are familiar components of many landscapes, vital to the healthy functioning of the global ecosystem and unparalled in the range of materials which they provide for human use. Yet how much do we really understand about how they work? This 2000 book provides a comprehensive introduction to the natural history of trees, presenting information on all aspects of tree biology and ecology in an easy to read and concise text. Fascinating insights into the workings of these everyday plants are uncovered throughout the book, with questions such as how are trees designed, how do they grow and reproduce, and why do they eventually die tackled in an illuminating way. Written for a non-technical audience, the book is nonetheless rigorous in its treatment and will therefore provide a valuable source of reference for beginning students as well as those with a less formal interest in this fascinating group of plants.
Author : Charlotte Gill
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781553657927
Charlotte Gill spent twenty years working as a tree planter in Canadian forests. In this book, she examines the environmental impact of logging and celebrates the value of forests from a perspective of some one whose work caught them between environmentalists and loggers.
Author : Jim Crumley
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-04
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780857900906
The Great Wood of Caledon - the historic native forest of Highland Scotland - has a reputation as potent and misleading as the wolves that ruled it. The popular image is of an impassable, sun-snuffing shroud, a Highlandswide jungle infested by wolf, lynx, bear, beaver, wild white cattle, wild boar, and wilder painted men. Jim Crumley shines a light into the darker corners of the Great Wood, to re-evaluate some of the questionable elements of its reputation, and to assess the possibilities of its partial resurrection into something like a national forest. The book threads a path among relict strongholds of native woodland, beginning with a soliloquy by the Fortingall Yew, the one tree in Scotland that can say of the hey-day of the Great Wood 5,000 years ago: 'I was there.' The journey is enriched by vivid wildlife encounters, a passionate and poetic account that binds the slow dereliction of the past to an optimistic future.
Author : Aljos Farjon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1842467662
Author : Jared Farmer
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465097852
The epic story of the planet’s oldest trees and the making of the modern world Humans have always revered long-lived trees. But as historian Jared Farmer reveals in Elderflora, our veneration took a modern turn in the eighteenth century, when naturalists embarked on a quest to locate and precisely date the oldest living things on earth. The new science of tree time prompted travelers to visit ancient specimens and conservationists to protect sacred groves. Exploitation accompanied sanctification, as old-growth forests succumbed to imperial expansion and the industrial revolution. Taking us from Lebanon to New Zealand to California, Farmer surveys the complex history of the world’s oldest trees, including voices of Indigenous peoples, religious figures, and contemporary scientists who study elderflora in crisis. In a changing climate, a long future is still possible, Farmer shows, but only if we give care to young things that might grow old.
Author : Ian D. Rotherham,Christine Handley,Mauro Agnoletti,Tomasz Samojlik
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781904098508
Author : James Canton
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780063037977
"A profound meditation on the human need for connection with nature, as one man seeks solace beneath the bows of an ancient oak tree."—Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees "James Canton knows so much, writes so well and understands so deeply about the true forest magic and the important place these trees have in it. Knowledge and joy."— Sara Maitland, author of How to Be Alone Joining the ranks of The Hidden Life of Trees and H is for Hawk, an evocative memoir and ode to one of the most majestic living things on earth—the oak tree—probing the mysteries of nature and the healing role it plays in our lives. Thrown into turmoil by the end of his long-term relationship, Professor James Canton spent two years meditating [PA1]beneath the welcoming shelter of the massive 800-year-old Honywood Oak tree in North Essex, England. While considering the direction of his own life, he began to contemplate the existence of this colossus tree. Standing in England for centuries, the oak would have been a sapling when the Magna Carta was signed in 1215. In this beautiful, transportive book, Canton tells the story of this tree in its ecological, spiritual, literary, and historical contexts, using it as a prism to see his own life and human history. The Oak Papers is a reflection on change and transformation, and the role nature has played in sustaining and redeeming us. Canton examines our long-standing dependency on the oak, and how that has developed and morphed into myth and legend. We no longer need these sturdy trees to build our houses and boats, to fuel our fires, or to grind their acorns into flour in times of famine. What purpose, then, do they serve in our world today? Are these miracles of nature no longer necessary to our lives? What can they offer us? Taking inspiration from the literary world—Henry David Thoreau, Leo Tolstoy, Katherine Basford’s Green Man, Thomas Hardy, William Shakespeare, and others—Canton ponders the wondrous magic of nature and the threats its faces, from human development to climate change, implores us to act as responsible stewards to conserve what is precious, and reminds us of the lessons we can learn from the world around us, if only we slow down enough to listen.
Author : Helen J. Read
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Pollard trees
ISBN : MINN:31951D01458954Y
Author : Christopher Roddick,Beth Hanson
Publisher : Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1889538299
In this indispensable guide you'll learn to assess your trees' health and understand what they need as you pick up the basic concepts and essential techniques of common-sense tree care. Whether you are preparing to plant a tree, maintaining a few mature beauties, or deciding on the best course of action to support a long-neglected specimen, you'll find the information you need to promote your trees' long-term well-being in this compact book.--COVER.
Author : Harley Rustad
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781487003128
Finalist, Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing Finalist, Banff Mountain Book Competition Finalist, BC Book Prize Globe and Mail best books of 2018 CBC best Canadian non-fiction of 2018 In the tradition of John Vaillant’s modern classic The Golden Spruce comes a story of the unlikely survival of one of the largest and oldest trees in Canada. On a cool morning in the winter of 2011, a logger named Dennis Cronin was walking through a stand of old-growth forest near Port Renfrew on Vancouver Island. He came across a massive Douglas fir the height of a twenty-storey building. Instead of allowing the tree to be felled, he tied a ribbon around the trunk, bearing the words “Leave Tree.” The forest was cut but the tree was saved. The solitary Douglas fir, soon known as Big Lonely Doug, controversially became the symbol of environmental activists and their fight to protect the region’s dwindling old-growth forests. Originally featured as a long-form article in The Walrus that garnered a National Magazine Award (Silver), Big Lonely Doug weaves the ecology of old-growth forests, the legend of the West Coast’s big trees, the turbulence of the logging industry, the fight for preservation, the contention surrounding ecotourism, First Nations land and resource rights, and the fraught future of these ancient forests around the story of a logger who saved one of Canada's last great trees.
Author : Donald Rodger,John Stokes,James Ogilvie
Publisher : Tree Council
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0904853063