To Think Like a Mountain: Environmental Challenges in the American West by Nokkentved, Niels Sparre

To Think Like a Mountain: Environmental Challenges in the American West

In the West, shortsighted human self-interest has resulted in devastating environmental losses. Fur trade beaver trapping meant...
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Author: Niels Sparre Nokkentved
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To Think Like a Mountain: Environmental Challenges in the American West by Nokkentved, Niels Sparre

To Think Like a Mountain: Environmental Challenges in the American West

CHF 44.93

To Think Like a Mountain: Environmental Challenges in the American West

CHF 44.93
Author: Niels Sparre Nokkentved
Format: Paperback
Language: English
In the West, shortsighted human self-interest has resulted in devastating environmental losses. Fur trade beaver trapping meant streams and wetland ecosystems deteriorated. Grazing livestock depleted native bunch grasses. Migrating Idaho Salmon once reached the ocean in ten to fourteen days. Now dams stretch the journey to fifty or more.

The author's goal is to encourage people to think like a mountain--to consider long-term consequences. His essays examine cultural conflicts over resource extraction, threats to watersheds by abandoned mines, wolf recovery in the northern Rocky Mountains, the lingering effects of livestock grazing on western rangelands, and the rapidly disappearing sage grouse. They discuss the importance of forest fires, the value of beavers, the failed promises of salmon hatcheries, the reasons behind the decline of the timber industry in the Pacific Northwest, and how unlikely allies learned to set aside their differences in order to resolve long-standing disputes.

Author: Niels Sparre Nokkentved
Publisher: Washington State University Press
Published: 09/01/2019
Pages: 258
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780874223682


Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2020

About the Author
Nokkentved, Niels S.: - Niels S. Nokkentved has won awards from the Associated Press, Society of Professional Journalists, and a C. B. Blethen award for distinguished investigative journalism. He spent twenty years as a newspaper reporter and eight years as a writer, photographer, and editor for the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. He is the author of three other books.

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