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Author : Ann Malaspina
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1560065052
Discusses saving the American wilderness, including preservation and conservation, environmental activism, recreation in the wilderness, and the future of wilderness management.
Author : Michael Lewis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0198038828
This collected volume of original essays proposes to address the state of scholarship on the political, cultural, and intellectual history of Americans responses to wilderness from first contact to the present. While not bringing a synthetic narrative to wilderness, the volume will gather competing interpretations of wilderness in historical context.
Author : Dean Kuipers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781608191420
Dean Kuipers takes us behind the scenes of the Animal Liberation Front and its punk-anarchist sibling the Earth Liberation Front, two of the most notorious and violent environmental groups and one of the FBI's biggest domestic terrorist priorities--even in the wake of 9/11. Kuipers tells us the story of ALF and ELF through Rod Coronado, an eco-terrorist and animal rights activist who has served jail time on several convictions in connection with his radical activities. From his teenage association with the Sea Shepherd and Earth First! through the federal manhunt that transformed him into a folk hero, Coronado's story parallels a movement that has led to over 1,200 acts of sabotage, $1 billion in damages, and a legal showdown that will define America's relationship to environmentalism. Neither a biography nor a polemic about animal rights, Operation Bite Back tells the outlaw tale of a man who acted on well-defined principles to carry out a campaign of political sabotage, putting his life on the line for an environmental movement that ultimately couldn't afford to be identified with his extreme actions.
Author : Roderick Frazier Nash
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780300190380
A study of America's changing attitude toward wilderness, discussing efforts to protect the Alaskan wilderness, trends in wilderness management, and the international perspective.
Author : Scott L Douglass
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2002-08-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814338066
This book tells you where beach sand comes from, how waves are formed and how they break and move sand down the coast, how “works of man” have blocked this movement and caused beach erosion, and what can be done to save the beaches for future generations of Americans. A three-part prescription for healthy beaches is proposed: “backing off”, “bypassing sand”, and “beach nourishment”. So if you love waves and beaches, and care about the future of your favorite beach spot, then read this book while you enjoy the beach. Contents: Beaches — America's Longest PlaygroundsOur Jeweled Necklace of Sand — The Geology of BeachesSurf's Up! — Waves and Their Effect on Beaches“Sand Thieves” of the Beach — How We Are Destroying Our Beaches“Designer Beaches” — Beach Nourishment EngineeringThe Prescription for Saving America's BeachesTo Learn More About BeachesThe “Fine Print” — Acknowledgements, Photo Credits, References Readership: Undergraduates in marine sciences, earth sciences and civil engineering; coastal management professionals; and lay people. Keywords:Reviews:“An interesting book that provides perspective to the beach erosion problem from a coastal engineering viewpoint. Definitely worth reading”Professor Stephen P Leatherman Florida International University “Great, easy to understand and perfect for summarizing to local governing bodies and advisory committees.”Ron Hovell, Coastal Projects Manager Collier County (Naples), Florida,USA “… found it to be incredibly good. I highly recommend the book to anyone who loves the beach and or will be making decisions on beach programs.”Tom Campbell President of the American Coastal Coalition USA “This book of 91 pages should be required reading for the general public who visit and are interested in beaches. It is a delightfully easy read, well illustrated with color photographs of a variety of beach scenes, many of them quite beautiful and there is not a single equation in the entire book which must have been difficult for Douglass, an engineer! … Good advice for preserving America's beaches from a knowledgeable coastal engineer who has done his homework and provided the documentation to support his prescription!”Robert G Dean Professor University of Florida, USA “Saving American's Beaches is a publication that covers the what, how and why's of the coastal experience that can be understood and enjoyed from ages 8 to 80.”Gregory Woodell President American Shore and Beach Preservation Association “Saving America's Beaches fills the void for a layman's guide to processes that shape beaches, causes of beach erosion, and solutions to beach erosion problems. The book will find a ready audience among those who enjoy the most popular of American pastimes and among local, state, and federal government officials who must make decisions to protect what is a valuable esthetic, economic, and environmental resource.”Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering
Author : Mark W. T. Harvey
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-23
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780295989822
Winner of the Forest History Society's 2006 Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Book Award As a central figure in the American wilderness preservation movement in the mid-twentieth century, Howard Zahniser (1906-1964) was the person most responsible for the landmark Wilderness Act of 1964. While the rugged outdoorsmen of the earlyenvironmental movement, such as John Muir and Bob Marshall, gave the cause a charismatic face, Zahniser strove to bring conservation's concerns into the public eye and the preservationists' plans to fruition. In many fights to save besieged wild lands, he pulled together fractious coalitions, built grassroots support networks, wooed skittish and truculent politicians, and generated streams of eloquent prose celebrating wilderness. Zahniser worked for the Bureau of Biological Survey (a precursor to the Fish and Wildlife Service) and the Department of the Interior, wrote for Nature magazine, and eventually managed the Wilderness Society and edited its magazine, Living Wilderness. The culmination of his wilderness writing and political lobbying was the Wilderness Act of 1964. All of its drafts included his eloquent definition of wilderness, which still serves as a central tenet for the Wilderness Society: "an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain." The bill was finally signed into law shortly after his death. Pervading his tireless work was a deeply held belief in the healing powers of nature for a humanity ground down by the mechanized hustle-bustle of modern, urban life. Zahniser grew up in a family of Methodist ministers, and although he moved away from any specific denomination, a spiritual outlook informed his thinking about wilderness. His love of nature was not so much a result of scientific curiosity as a sense of wonder at its beauty and majesty, and a wish to exist in harmony with all other living things. In this deeply researched and affectionate portrait, Mark Harvey brings to life this great leader of environmental activism.
Author : Douglas Brinkley
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780062035332
“Douglas Brinkley has written a sweeping, blow-by-blow account of the struggle to preserve the last great remnants of American wilderness. An engaging appraisal of the crucial skirmishes in the battle over wild Alaska, The Quiet World is populated not only by the requisite luminaries like John Muir and Ansel Adams, but also by a cast of quirky, unexpected characters. The Quiet World is a fascinating and important read.” — Jon Krakauer In this follow-up to his New York Times bestseller Wilderness Warrior, acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley offers a riveting, expansive look at the past and present battle to preserve Alaska’s wilderness. Brinkley explores the colorful diversity of Alaska’s wildlife, arrays the forces that have wreaked havoc on its primeval arctic refuge—from Klondike Gold Rush prospectors to environmental disasters like the Exxon-Valdez oil spill—and documents environmental heroes from Theodore Roosevelt to Dwight Eisenhower and beyond. Not merely a record of Alaska’s past, The Quiet World is a compelling call-to-arms for sustainability, conservationism, and conscientious environmental stewardship—a warning that the land once called Seward’s Folly may go down in history as America’s Greatest Mistake.
Author : Douglas Brinkley
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 964 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780061940576
From New York Times bestselling historian Douglas Brinkley comes a sweeping historical narrative and eye-opening look at the pioneering environmental policies of President Theodore Roosevelt, avid bird-watcher, naturalist, and the founding father of America’s conservation movement. In this groundbreaking epic biography, Douglas Brinkley draws on never-before-published materials to examine the life and achievements of our “naturalist president.” By setting aside more than 230 million acres of wild America for posterity between 1901 and 1909, Theodore Roosevelt made conservation a universal endeavor. This crusade for the American wilderness was perhaps the greatest U.S. presidential initiative between the Civil War and World War I. Roosevelt’s most important legacies led to the creation of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and passage of the Antiquities Act in 1906. His executive orders saved such treasures as Devils Tower, the Grand Canyon, and the Petrified Forest.
Author : Emma Marris
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781635574968
Winner of the 2022 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award * Winner of the 2022 Science in Society Journalism Award (Books) * Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize “Thoughtful, insightful, and wise, Wild Souls is a landmark work.”--Ed Yong, author of An Immense World "Fascinating . . . hands-on philosophy, put to test in the real world . . . Marris believes that our idea of wildness--our obsession with purity--is misguided. No animal remains untouched by human hands . . . the science isn't the hard part. The real challenge is the ethics, the act of imagining our appropriate place in that world." --Outside Magazine From an acclaimed environmental writer, a groundbreaking and provocative new vision for our relationships with--and responsibilities toward--the planet's wild animals. Protecting wild animals and preserving the environment are two ideals so seemingly compatible as to be almost inseparable. But in fact, between animal welfare and conservation science there exists a space of underexamined and unresolved tension: wildness itself. When is it right to capture or feed wild animals for the good of their species? How do we balance the rights of introduced species with those already established within an ecosystem? Can hunting be ecological? Are any animals truly wild on a planet that humans have so thoroughly changed? No clear guidelines yet exist to help us resolve such questions. Transporting readers into the field with scientists tackling these profound challenges, Emma Marris tells the affecting and inspiring stories of animals around the globe--from Peruvian monkeys to Australian bilbies, rare Hawai'ian birds to majestic Oregon wolves. And she offers a companionable tour of the philosophical ideas that may steer our search for sustainability and justice in the non-human world. Revealing just how intertwined animal life and human life really are, Wild Souls will change the way we think about nature-and our place within it.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0393038726
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Parks and Recreation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Government publications
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045269078
Author : Mark W. T. Harvey
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780295803531
Harvey details the first major clash between conservationists and developers after World War II, the successful fight to prevent the building of Echo Park Dam. The dam on the Green River was intended to create a recreational lake in northwest Colorado and generate hydroelectric power, but would have flooded picturesque Echo Park Valley and threatened Dinosaur National Monument, straddling the Utah-Colorado border near Wyoming.
Author : Roderick Frazier Nash
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780300153507
DIVRoderick Nash’s classic study of changing attitudes toward wilderness during American history, as well as the origins of the environmental and conservation movements, has received wide acclaim since its initial publication in 1967. The Los Angeles Times listed it among the one hundred most influential books published in the last quarter century, Outside Magazine included it in a survey of “books that changed our world,” and it has been called the “Book of Genesis for environmentalists.” For the fifth edition, Nash has written a new preface and epilogue that brings Wilderness and the American Mind into dialogue with contemporary debates about wilderness. Char Miller’s foreword provides a twenty-first-century perspective on how the environmental movement has changed, including the ways in which contemporary scholars are reimagining the dynamic relationship between the natural world and the built environment./div
Author : Scott F. Anfinson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780759118003
Scott Anfinson’s Practical Heritage Management provides a comprehensive overview of American cultural resource management (CRM) and historic preservation. It is a textbook designed for all levels of students in archaeology, history, and architecture departments. The format follows the logical progression of a semester course, with each of the 14 chapters designed as the primary reading for each week in a semester. The book provides a detailed overview of the structure, historic background, important laws, and important governmental and professional players in the various American heritage management systems (federal, state, local, private). Features include: • End-of-chapter review questions and suggested readings • Glossary • List of acronyms • A comprehensive chronology of American heritage management
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Public lands
ISBN : UCAL:B5153782