Trees In Trouble

Author : Daniel Mathews
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781640094666

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Trees in Trouble by Daniel Mathews Pdf

A troubling story of the devastating and compounding effects of climate change in the Western and Rocky Mountain states, told through in–depth reportage and conversations with ecologists, professional forest managers, park service scientists, burn boss, activists, and more. Climate change manifests in many ways across North America, but few as dramatic as the attacks on our western pine forests. In Trees in Trouble, Daniel Mathews tells the urgent story of this loss, accompanying burn crews and forest ecologists as they study the myriad risk factors and refine techniques for saving this important, limited resource. Mathews transports the reader from the exquisitely aromatic haze of ponderosa and Jeffrey pine groves to the fantastic gnarls and whorls of five–thousand–year–old bristlecone pines, from genetic test nurseries where white pine seedlings are deliberately infected with their mortal enemy to the hottest megafire sites and neighborhoods leveled by fire tornadoes or ember blizzards. Scrupulously researched, Trees in Trouble not only explores the devastating ripple effects of climate change, but also introduces us to the people devoting their lives to saving our forests. Mathews also offers hope: a new approach to managing western pine forests is underway. Trees in Trouble explores how we might succeed in sustaining our forests through the challenging transition to a new environment.

Author : Yolanda Ridge
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781554693856

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Trouble in the Trees by Yolanda Ridge Pdf

When tree climbing is banned at her townhouse complex, Bree assumes the role of activist and advocate in her community.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Ecology
ISBN : OSU:32435073828212

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Project Learning Tree by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gerry Barnes,Toby Pillatt,Tom Williamson
Publisher : Univ of Hertfordshire Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781912260010

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Trees in England by Gerry Barnes,Toby Pillatt,Tom Williamson Pdf

There is currently much concern about our trees and woodlands. The terrible toll taken by Dutch elm disease has been followed by a string of further epidemics, most worryingly ash chalara – and there are more threats on the horizon. There is also a widely shared belief that our woods have been steadily disappearing over recent decades, either replanted with alien conifers or destroyed entirely in order to make way for farmland or development. But the present state of our trees needs to be examined critically, and from a historical as much as from a scientific perspective. For English tree populations have long been highly unnatural in character, shaped by economic and social as much as by environmental factors. In reality, the recent history of trees and woods in England is more complex and less negative than we often assume and any narrative of decline and loss is overly simplistic. The numbers of trees and the extent and character of woodland have been in a state of flux for centuries. Research leaves no doubt, moreover, that arboreal ill health is nothing new. Levels of disease are certainly increasing but this is as much a consequence of changes in the way we treat trees – especially the decline in intensive management which has occurred over the last century and a half – as it is of the arrival of new diseases. And man, not nature, has shaped the essential character of rural tree populations, ensuring their dominance by just a few indigenous species and thus rendering them peculiarly vulnerable to invasive pests and diseases. The messages from history are clear: we can and should plant our landscape with a wider palette, providing greater resilience in the face of future pathogens; and the most 'unnatural' and rigorously managed tree populations are also the healthiest. The results of an ambitious research project are here shaped into a richly detailed survey of English arboriculture over the last four centuries. Trees in England will be essential reading not only for landscape historians but also for natural scientists, foresters and all those interested in the future of the countryside. Only by understanding the essentially human history of our trees and woods can we hope to protect and enhance them.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Forests
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Forestry law and legislation
ISBN : MINN:31951D00271179N

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Urban Trees Act of 1977 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Forests Pdf

Author : Susan Clayton,
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003-11-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 0262532069

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Identity and the Natural Environment by Susan Clayton, Pdf

The often impassioned nature of environmental conflicts can be attributed to the fact that they are bound up with our sense of personal and social identity. Environmental identity—how we orient ourselves to the natural world—leads us to personalize abstract global issues and take action (or not) according to our sense of who we are. We may know about the greenhouse effect—but can we give up our SUV for a more fuel-efficient car? Understanding this psychological connection can lead to more effective pro-environmental policymaking. Identity and the Natural Environment examines the ways in which our sense of who we are affects our relationship with nature, and vice versa. This book brings together cutting-edge work on the topic of identity and the environment, sampling the variety and energy of this emerging field but also placing it within a descriptive framework. These theory-based, empirical studies locate environmental identity on a continuum of social influence, and the book is divided into three sections reflecting minimal, moderate, or strong social influence. Throughout, the contributors focus on the interplay between social and environmental forces; as one local activist says, "We don't know if we're organizing communities to plant trees, or planting trees to organize communities."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OSU:32435060800703

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Bibliography of Agriculture by Anonim Pdf

Author : J.E. Knowles
Publisher : Bella Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781594939570

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Trees in the Field by J.E. Knowles Pdf

Dr. Tomas Jefferson stays aloof from life and love, but is strangely drawn to a war-ravaged Marine at a Chicago street clinic where she volunteers. When he dies on the streets, she undertakes notification of the next of kin, but it's clear that Senator Raybelle McKeehan finds the matter inconvenient. Raybelle McKeehan was ten when she knew that she would be President some day. Now a Republican senator from Tennessee, there is no room in her life for deviations and distractions, but her brother's death and the compelling Dr. Jefferson both throw her off her carefully charted path. Horrified by her brother's circumstances, and that of other veterans, Raybelle must decide if she can go toe-to-toe with powerful men to uncover self-dealing and criminal acts that strike at the heart of the Constitution and the democracy she loves. Tomas agrees to advise and though Raybelle denies it to herself, feelings emerge...and so do rumors that could ruin her career.

Author : William Walter Yothers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Citrus
ISBN : HARVARD:32044107291437

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Spraying for the Control of Insects and Mites Attacking Citrus Trees in Florida by William Walter Yothers Pdf

Author : Jim Robbins
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781847659033

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The Man Who Plants Trees by Jim Robbins Pdf

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 : Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B2908698

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Annual Report by Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario Pdf

Author : Jill Jonnes
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781101632130

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Urban Forests by Jill Jonnes Pdf

“Far-ranging and deeply researched, Urban Forests reveals the beauty and significance of the trees around us.” —Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction “Jonnes extols the many contributions that trees make to city life and celebrates the men and women who stood up for America’s city trees over the past two centuries. . . . An authoritative account.” —Gerard Helferich, The Wall Street Journal “We all know that trees can make streets look prettier. But in her new book Urban Forests, Jill Jonnes explains how they make them safer as well.” —Sara Begley, Time Magazine A celebration of urban trees and the Americans—presidents, plant explorers, visionaries, citizen activists, scientists, nurserymen, and tree nerds—whose arboreal passions have shaped and ornamented the nation’s cities, from Jefferson’s day to the present As nature’s largest and longest-lived creations, trees play an extraordinarily important role in our cities; they are living landmarks that define space, cool the air, soothe our psyches, and connect us to nature and our past. Today, four-fifths of Americans live in or near urban areas, surrounded by millions of trees of hundreds of different species. Despite their ubiquity and familiarity, most of us take trees for granted and know little of their fascinating natural history or remarkable civic virtues. Jill Jonnes’s Urban Forests tells the captivating stories of the founding mothers and fathers of urban forestry, in addition to those arboreal advocates presently using the latest technologies to illuminate the value of trees to public health and to our urban infrastructure. The book examines such questions as the character of American urban forests and the effect that tree-rich landscaping might have on commerce, crime, and human well-being. For amateur botanists, urbanists, environmentalists, and policymakers, Urban Forests will be a revelation of one of the greatest, most productive, and most beautiful of our natural resources.

Author : Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015074645055

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Annual Report of the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario by Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario Pdf

Author : Peter Wohlleben,Mike Grady
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0008338388

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The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben,Mike Grady Pdf

Author : Gerald S. Lestz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 199?
Category : Trees
ISBN : PSU:000050272273

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Tree Lore & Legends by Gerald S. Lestz Pdf