Field Guide To California Agriculture

Author : Paul Starrs,Peter Goin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780520265431

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Field Guide to California Agriculture by Paul Starrs,Peter Goin Pdf

"This book brings to life one of the most creative (and necessary) human endeavors and makes understandable the incredible complexity of California agriculture, one of the world's most daring experiments in feeding itself. A valuable resource that should be read by everyone—not just those of us who farm, but all of us who depend on farms."—Michael Ableman, farmer, photographer, and author of From the Good Earth, On Good Land, and Fields of Plenty. "No understanding of this state is possible without an understanding of its agriculture; that's how important this subject is."—Gerald Haslam, author of Workin' Man Blues: Country Music in California "A fascinating, intriguing, and sometimes even humorous exploration of California's agriculture, from broccoli to marijuana and beyond. At long last, a book everyday people can read to understand the state's biggest industry."—Louis Warren, University of California, Davis

Author : Gary Nakamura,Julie Kierstead Nelson
Publisher : UCANR Publications
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1879906457

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Illustrated Field Guide to Selected Rare Plants of Northern California by Gary Nakamura,Julie Kierstead Nelson Pdf

"This guide provides description and photographs of 149 rare or endangered plants found in 10 counties in Northern California. Each description is accompanied by a photo of the mature plant (where available), a photo of the plant in its native habitat, a line art illustration of the plant showing diagnostic features, and a map showing the quadrangles where the plant has been found."--NHBS Encironment Bookstore.

Author : David Carle
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780520258280

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Introduction to Earth, Soil, and Land in California by David Carle Pdf

"David Carle has produced another gem of a book that should be in easy reach of every lover of California. Introductions to Earth, Soil, and Land in California is a portable encyclopedia-fun to read and filled with photos and facts."-Peter Moyle, auhtor of Inland Fishes of California --

Author : Cheryll Glotfelty,Peter Goin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000509700

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Peter Goin and the Photography of Environmental Change by Cheryll Glotfelty,Peter Goin Pdf

Peter Goin and the Photography of Environmental Change narrates the forty-year quest of award-winning and internationally exhibited contemporary photographer Peter Goin to document human-altered landscapes across America and beyond. It is a collaborative work between an artist and a literary critic, a retrospective of an accomplished environmental photographer, and an innovative education in visual reading. Enduring howling wind, pounding rain, and blistering sun, Goin bears witness to radioactive landscapes, abandoned mines, simulated swamps, rechanneled rivers, controlled burns, overgrown ruins, industrialized agriculture, shrinking reservoirs, feral spaces in the city, architected wilderness, sacred wastelands, contested borderlands, and more. Based on more than seventy hours of taped interviews with the artist spanning over a decade, trailblazing ecocritic Cheryll Glotfelty narrates the arc of Goin's career, sharing excerpts from their conversations that reveal his brilliant mind and piquant personality while situating his work within the broader context of environmental thinkers. This beautifully illustrated volume, with 200 images in color and black-and-white showcasing Goin’s work, will be a fascinating and insightful read for upper-level students, academics, and researchers in photography, environmental history and culture, landscape studies, and environmental humanities.

Author : LARRY FORERO,JOSH DAVEY,SHEILA BARRY,JAMES BARTOLOME,STEPHANIE LARSON
Publisher : UCANR Publications
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781627110730

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Field Guide to Common California Rangeland and Pasture Plants by LARRY FORERO,JOSH DAVEY,SHEILA BARRY,JAMES BARTOLOME,STEPHANIE LARSON Pdf

This pocket-sized card set provides rangeland managers with an easy-to-use photographic guide to 52 of the most important range and pasture plants. Spiral bound and printed on sturdy laminated paper this resource will hold up to rough service in the field. Each entry contains common and scientific name, lifecycle, habitat, elevation, forage quality, and general information . Also includes a comparison table of USDA Plant Database to Jepson e-flora scientific names and a summary table of the covered plants showing their life cycle, habitat, elevation, and forage value at a glance.

Author : Tedmund J. Swiecki,Elizabeth A. Bernhardt,US Department of Agriculture
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 130414545X

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A Field Guide to Insects and Diseases of California Oaks (Enlarged Edition) by Tedmund J. Swiecki,Elizabeth A. Bernhardt,US Department of Agriculture Pdf

FULL COLOR and Enlarged Edition - California has more than twenty-five native species, natural hybrids, and varieties of oaks (Quercus species). The form of these oaks ranges from large trees, up to about 25 m tall, to shrubs no taller than about 1.5 m. California's native oaks include representatives of three oak subgroups or subgenera (Table 1). Hybridization only occurs between oaks in the same subgroup. In addition, some insects, pathogens, and other agents may selectively colonize or damage oaks in certain subgroups.

Author : Richard J. Adams
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520276604

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Field Guide to the Spiders of California and the Pacific Coast States by Richard J. Adams Pdf

"A user-friendly guide to identifying and understanding the spiders of the Pacific Coast. There are 67 families of spiders found in North America, and 59 of them can be found in California. This field guide will cover all 59 of those families, including introduced species and common garden spiders--those will be given extra coverage. Each family is reviewed including details of their identification, taxonomy, distribution, and natural history. There will be a full color plate for each of the families."--

Author : Gretchen LeBuhn,Noel Badges Pugh
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520272835

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Field Guide to the Common Bees of California by Gretchen LeBuhn,Noel Badges Pugh Pdf

This engaging and easy-to-use natural history guidebook provides a thorough overview of native and honey bee biology and offers tools for identifying the most common bees of California and the Western United States. Full-color illustrations introduce readers to more than 30 genera of native bees, noting each one's needs and habits and placing them in their wider context. The author highlights beesÕ ties to our own lives, the food we eat, and the habitat we provide, and suggests ways to support bees in our own backyards. In addition to helping readers understand and distinguish among major groups of bees, this guide reveals how bees are an essential part of healthy ecosystem and how many plants, including important crop plants, depend on the pollination they provide. As growing evidence points to declining bee populations, this book offers critical information about the bond between plants and pollinators, and between humans and nature. Thoroughly researched and full of new insights into the ancient process of pollination, Field Guide to the Common Bees of California; Including Bees of the Western United States is invaluable for the window it opens onto the biodiversity, adaptive range, and complexity of invertebrate communities. Ê

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789251323625

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Field guide to improve crop water productivity in small-scale agriculture by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

By 2050, the world’s population will reach 9.1 billion, which requires an increase of food production by 70 percent compared to 2005 (FAO,2018). Nearly all the increase will occur in developing countries, where agriculture plays a major role to provide employment, income and to improve food security. One of the major challenges of increasing food supply is the limited water resources. Agriculture, as the driver of freshwater exploitation has, therefore, to be transformed into more resource efficient production (FAO, 2003). The world’s limited freshwater resources are potentially threatened by the expansion of agriculture. Increasing the potential output per amount of water used is an appropriate practice to improve production efficiency while protecting water resources. Therefore, increasing the productivity of agricultural water use in a sustainable manner is essential to ultimately sustain the social and economic conditions of livelihoods. Crop water productivity has grown into one of the major approaches to cope with water scarcity and advance crop-water relation. The number of conceptual frameworks and implications is ample, but there is always a growing need to review the step-by-step approach beyond. In this Field guide, practical pathways are presented to provide a comprehensive approach for assessing and improving crop water productivity in small-scale agriculture. The Field guide draws lessons learned in three countries (Burkina Faso, Morocco and Uganda) within the framework of FAO project “Strengthening Agricultural Water Efficiency and Productivity at the African and Global Level” funded by Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).

Author : Ann Foley Scheuring
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780520376076

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A Guidebook to California Agriculture by Ann Foley Scheuring Pdf

Author : Gerald W. Olson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401169431

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Field Guide to Soils and the Environment Applications of Soil Surveys by Gerald W. Olson Pdf

The success of the book Soils and the Environment imagination in the applications of soil surveys, illustrates the need for further, more detailed toward the end of improving productivity and information about soil survey interpretations (uses efficiency in the use of soils and the environment. of soil surveys), especially for laypersons, teachers, Although laypersons, teachers, and students are the and students. Much information about soils and primary groups addressed by this Field Guide, the environment is secluded in offices of various other people involved with using soil surveys are agencies and institutions and thus is not readily (or will be) agriculturalists, agronomists, assessors, available to the people who need it. Techniques for botanists, conservationists, contractors, ecologists, finding and using the information are also not well economists, engineers, extension workers, fores known, so there is great need for this Field Guide ters, geologists, groundwater experts, planners, to Soils and the Environment to provide teachers politicians, public health officials, range managers, and learners with exercises that will give them recreationists, soil scientists, wildlife specialists, and many others. This Field Guide complements practice leading to confidence in the manipulation and enhances the book Soils and the Environment and utilization of soil survey data. In a sense, all published in 1981. of us are (or should be) learners and teachers in the use of soil survey information. This Field Guide DONALD R.

Author : H. Scott Butterfield,T. Rodd Kelsey,Abigail K. Hart
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781642831269

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Rewilding Agricultural Landscapes by H. Scott Butterfield,T. Rodd Kelsey,Abigail K. Hart Pdf

As the world population grows, so does the demand for food, putting unprecedented pressure on agricultural lands. In many desert dryland regions, however, intensive cultivation is causing their productivity to decline precipitously. "Rewilding" the least productive of these landscapes offers a sensible way to reverse the damage, recover natural diversity, and ensure long-term sustainability of remaining farms and the communities they support. This accessibly written, groundbreaking contributed volume is the first to examine in detail what it would take to retire eligible farmland and restore functioning natural ecosystems. The lessons in Rewilding Agricultural Landscapes will be useful to conservation leaders, policymakers, groundwater agencies, and water managers looking for inspiration and practical advice for solving the complicated issues of agricultural sustainability and water management.

Author : Peter Goin,Paul F. Starrs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1893663485

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The Colors of California by Peter Goin,Paul F. Starrs Pdf

Author : Arthur V. Evans,James N. Hogue
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520246577

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Field Guide to Beetles of California by Arthur V. Evans,James N. Hogue Pdf

"This crisply written guide belongs on the shelf of all who have an interest in the natural history of the Golden State."—Dr. Rosser W. Garrison, coauthor of Dragonfly Genera of the New World

Author : Anonim
Publisher : UCANR Publications
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781601075642

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Slugs: A Guide to the Invasive and Native Fauna of California by Anonim Pdf

The first thorough key to the identification of slugs in California. You may think all slugs look alike, but on closer examination you will be surprised at how they differ. Color photographs.