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Coastal Sage

Author : Thomas J. Osborne
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520296657

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Coastal Sage by Thomas J. Osborne Pdf

There are moments when we forget how fortunate we are to have the California coast. The state is home to 1,100 miles of uninterrupted coastline defined by long stretches of beach and jagged rocky cliffs. Coastal Sage chronicles the career and accomplishments of Peter Douglas, the longest-serving executive director of the California Coastal Commission. For nearly three decades, Douglas fought to keep the California coast public, prevent overdevelopment, and safeguard habitat. In doing so, Douglas emerged as a leading figure in the contemporary American environmental movement and influenced public conservation efforts across the country. He coauthored California’s foundational laws pertaining to shoreline management and conservation: Proposition 20 and the California Coastal Act. Many of the political battles to save the coast from overdevelopment and secure public access are revealed for the first time in this study of the leader who was at once a visionary, warrior, and coastal sage.

2nd Interface Between Ecology and Land Development in California

Author : Jon E. Keeley,Melanie Baer-Keeley,C. J. Fotheringham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fire management
ISBN : STANFORD:36105115022589

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2nd Interface Between Ecology and Land Development in California by Jon E. Keeley,Melanie Baer-Keeley,C. J. Fotheringham Pdf

The 2nd Interface Between Ecology and Land Development Conference was held in association with Earth Day 1997, five years after the first Interface Conference. Rapid population growth in California has intensified the inevitable conflict between land development and preservation of natural ecosystems. Sustainable development requires wise use of diminishing natural resources and, where possible, restoration of damaged landscapes. These Earth Week Celebrations brought together resource managers, scientists, politicians, environmental consultants, and concerned citizens in an effort to improve the communication necessary to maintain our natural biodiversity, ecosystem processes and general quality of life. As discussed by our keynote speaker, Michael Soulé, the best predictor of habitat loss is population growth and nowhere is this better illustrated than in California. As urban perimeters expand, the interface between wildlands and urban areas increases. Few problems are more vexing than how to manage the fire prone ecosystems indigenous to California at this urban interface. Today resource managers face increasing challenges of dealing with this problem and the lead-off section of the proceedings considers both the theoretical basis for making decisions related to prescribed burning and the practical application. Habitat fragmentation is an inevitable consequence of development patterns with significant impacts on animal and plant populations. Managers must be increasingly resourceful in dealing with problems of fragmentation and the often inevitable consequences, including susceptibility to invasive oganisms. One approach to dealing with fragmentation problems is through careful landplanning. California is the national leader in the integration of conservation and economics. On Earth Day 1991, Governor Pete Wilson presented an environmental agenda that promised to create between land owners and environmentalists, agreements that would guarantee the protection of -endangered species and out of this grew the pioneering initiative, known as the Natural Communities Conservation Planning (NCCP) program. California's vast expanse of seemingly endless resources has traditionally been viewed as justification for abusive land use practices. The modem day recognition that resources are finite has led to greater concern, not only for conserving what is left, but for restoring abused landscapes. Ecological restoration is a new science devoted to returning disturbed environments to a semblance of their "pristine" state. Based on principles of "revegetation," restoration goes far beyond simple replanting, rather the ambition of ecological restoration is to return landscapes to functioning ecosystems and is the focus of the last section.

Ecosystems of California

Author : Harold Mooney,Erika Zavaleta
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520962170

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Ecosystems of California by Harold Mooney,Erika Zavaleta Pdf

This long-anticipated reference and sourcebook for California’s remarkable ecological abundance provides an integrated assessment of each major ecosystem type—its distribution, structure, function, and management. A comprehensive synthesis of our knowledge about this biologically diverse state, Ecosystems of California covers the state from oceans to mountaintops using multiple lenses: past and present, flora and fauna, aquatic and terrestrial, natural and managed. Each chapter evaluates natural processes for a specific ecosystem, describes drivers of change, and discusses how that ecosystem may be altered in the future. This book also explores the drivers of California’s ecological patterns and the history of the state’s various ecosystems, outlining how the challenges of climate change and invasive species and opportunities for regulation and stewardship could potentially affect the state’s ecosystems. The text explicitly incorporates both human impacts and conservation and restoration efforts and shows how ecosystems support human well-being. Edited by two esteemed ecosystem ecologists and with overviews by leading experts on each ecosystem, this definitive work will be indispensable for natural resource management and conservation professionals as well as for undergraduate or graduate students of California’s environment and curious naturalists.

Final Environmental Impact Statement

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Angeles National Forest (Calif.)
ISBN : UCR:31210020114870

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Changing Plant Life of La Frontera

Author : Grady Linder Webster,Conrad J. Bahre
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0826322395

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Changing Plant Life of La Frontera by Grady Linder Webster,Conrad J. Bahre Pdf

Presents a new agenda for study of the strikingly diverse shrub and grassland ecosystems of the U.S./Mexico border.

General Technical Report PSW.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Forests and forestry
ISBN : UOM:39015005846756

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Cheeseboro Canyon

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030188130

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San Diego Naval Regional Medical Center

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030204291

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