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Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies: Providence Canyon and the Soils of the SouthProvidence Canyon State Park, also known as Georgia's "Little Grand Canyon," preserves a network of massive erosion gullies allegedly caused by poor farming practices during the nineteenth century. It is a park that protects the scenic results of an environmental disaster. While little known...
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Coyote Settles the SouthOne night, poet and environmental writer John Lane tuned in to a sound from behind his house that he had never heard before: the nearby eerie and captivating howls of coyotes. Since this was Spartanburg, South Carolina, and not Missoula, Montana, Lane set out...
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Chattahoochee River User's GuideThe Chattahoochee River is one of the premier waterways of Georgia and the Southeast. It is a mecca for summer recreation, a priceless natural resource that provides water and power for a great number of Georgia's citizens, and an essential component to the region's...
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Fields and Streams: Stream Restoration, Neoliberalism, and the Future of Environmental ScienceExamining the science of stream restoration, Rebecca Lave argues that the neoliberal emphasis on the privatization and commercialization of knowledge has fundamentally changed the way that science is funded, organized, and viewed in the United States. Stream restoration science and practice is in a...
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War Upon the Land: Military Strategy and the Transformation of Southern Landscapes During the American Civil WarIn this first book-length environmental history of the American Civil War, Lisa M. Brady argues that ideas about nature and the environment were central to the development and success of Union military strategy. From the start of the war, both sides had to contend...
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An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental CenturyNo one did more than Marjory Stoneman Douglas to transform the Everglades from the country's most maligned swamp into its most beloved wetland. By the late twentieth century, her name and her classic "The Everglades: River of Grass" had become synonymous with Everglades protection....
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Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of the Savannah River SiteHost to more than one hundred species of reptiles and amphibians, the Savannah River Site, a 780-square-kilometer tract in South Carolina, is one of the most intensely studied areas of herpetological ecology in the world. This guide is a summary of basic information on...
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My Work Is That of Conservation: An Environmental Biography of George Washington CarverGeorge Washington Carver (ca. 1864-1943) is at once one of the most familiar and misunderstood figures in American history. In My Work Is That of Conservation, Mark D. Hersey reveals the life and work of this fascinating man who is widely--and reductively--known as the...
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The Pond LoversTo his legions of readers, Gene Logsdon is best known as the Contrary Farmer. His writings, which blend commonsense advice, curmudgeonly wit, and respect for the earth, are manna to anyone who wants to live, as Logsdon puts it, "at nature's pace." The Pond...
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Bamboo Fly Rod Suite: Reflections on Fishing and the Geography of GraceAfter he was handed an old broken-down bamboo fly rod, Frank Soos waited several years before he cautiously undertook its restoration. That painstaking enterprise becomes the central metaphor and the unifying theme for the captivating personal essays presented here. With sly wit and disarming...
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Spirits of the Air: Birds & American Indians in the SouthBefore the massive environmental change wrought by the European colonization of the South, hundreds of species of birds filled the region's flyways in immeasurable numbers. Before disease, war, and displacement altered the South's earliest human landscape, Native Americans hunted and ate birds and made...
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Wild Apples and Other Natural History EssaysThis volume of seven essays and a late lecture by Henry David Thoreau makes available important material written both before and after Walden. First appearing in the 1840s through the 1860s, the essays were written during a time of great change in Thoreau's environs,...
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A Book of Trees for Florida and the SubtropicsThis old favorite has been completely revised, with many more north Florida trees and natives. It contains over 300 line illustrations of trees seen every day in Florida's roadside plantings, parks and residential gardens. You'll recognize some of the temperate-subtropical trees shown, while others...
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Counter-Desecration: A Glossary for Writing Within the AnthropoceneNew vocabulary for a world on the brinkThe Anthropocene is a term proposed for the present geological epoch (from the time of the Industrial Revolution onwards) to highlight the role of humanity in the transformation of earth's environment globally, has become the subject of...
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Lizards and Snakes of AlabamaAn up-to-date and comprehensive herpetological guide to Alabama Lizards and Snakes of Alabama is the most comprehensive taxonomy gathered since Robert H. Mount's seminal 1975 volume on the reptiles and amphibians of Alabama. This richly illustrated guide provides an up-to-date summary of the taxonomy...
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Total Liberation: The Power and Promise of Animal Rights and the Radical Earth MovementWhen in 2001 Earth Liberation Front activists drove metal spikes into hundreds of trees in Gifford Pinchot National Forest, they were protesting the sale of a section of the old-growth forest to a timber company. But ELF's communiqué on the action went beyond the...
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Born to Pull: The Glory of Sled DogsFor centuries, sled dogs pulled the people of northern climates over otherwise impassable distances of snow and ice, guiding them home through trackless wilderness. These burly, strong dogs were the lifeblood of the northern winter world. Today, from races like the famed Iditarod and...
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The Meaning of WildernessSigurd F. Olson (1899-1982) was one of the greatest environmentalists of the twentieth century. A conservation activist and popular writer, Olson introduced a generation of readers to the importance of wilderness. He served as president of the Wilderness Society and the National Parks Association...
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Heirloom Seeds and Their Keepers: Marginality and Memory in the Conservation of Biological DiversityFarmers and gardeners have long appreciated a wide variety of plants and have nurtured them for meals, healing, and exchange. But diversity too often has been surrendered to monocultures of fields and spirits, predisposing much of modern agriculture to uniformity and, consequently, vulnerability. Today...
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The Birds of SonoraBirders who come to the American Southwest often keep an eye out for Mexican species that stray across the border. Many neotropical migrants of western North America winter in Sonora, and a host of hummingbirds make their home south of the border as well....
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