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Half-Earth proposes an achievable plan to save our imperiled biosphere: devote half the surface of the Earth to nature. The renowned biologist identifies actual regions of the planet that can still be reclaimed, among them: The California Redwood Forest, The Amazon River Basin, The Western Ghats of India, The grassland of the Serengeti, The long-leaf pine savannas of the American South, The flatlands of northwest Europe, The Congo Basin, Gorongosa...
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PBS Distribution
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[2020]
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English
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Explore humanity's relationship with nature and wildlife, as scientists and conservationists from all over the world examine ways that can restore the planet? The documentary series asks whether newfound awareness of nature could bring about a new chapter in the human story.
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Narrates the struggles of the overmatched rangers against the implacable fire of August, 1910, and Teddy Roosevelt's pioneering conservation efforts that helped turn public opinion permanently in favor of the forests, though it changed the mission of the forest service with consequences felt in the fires of today.
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Alfred A. Knopf
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2021.
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"From the veteran New Yorker staff writer and award-winning author of The Experience of Place: an urgent, resounding call to protect half the earth's land--and thereby millions of its species--by 2050, that gives us the tools to think big about the planet and our role in conserving it. Beginning in the North American Boreal Forest that stretches through Canada, and roving across the continent from the Northern Sierra to Alabama's Paint Rock Forest...
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"Most of us view animals through a very narrow lens, seeing only bits and pieces of beings that seem mostly peripheral to our lives. However, whether animals are building a shelter, seducing a mate, or inventing a new game, animals' creative choices affect their social, cultural, and environmental worlds. The Creative Lives of Animals offers readers intimate glimpses of creativity in the lives of animals, from elephants to alligators to ants. Drawing...
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"Delves deeply here into the impact his state's glacial beauty had upon wilderness advocate John Muir. With a deft touch, the narrative wanders with ease from natural history, to biography, to travelogue and an exploration of how Muir's adventures in Alaska infused his later literary and conservation accomplishments. Muir is hardly an unknown figure, but Heacox finds much in his Alaska experiences worthy of further examination. The state's conflicted...
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"In late-1940s America, few writers commanded attention like Bernard DeVoto. Alongside his brilliant wife and editor, Avis, DeVoto was a firebrand of American liberty, free speech, and perhaps our greatest national treasure: public lands. But when a corrupt band of lawmakers, led by Senator Pat McCarran, sought to quietly cede millions of acres of national parks and other western lands to logging, mining, and private industry, the DeVotos entered...
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Barefoot Books
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2022.
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English
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"Learn how a movement builds from one person to a billion in this A to Z environmental activism book. Readers count from 1 to 10 - and then in larger increments to a billion - as they learn new terms from "conservation" to "activism." Inset boxes provide easy-to-understand definitions of additional new vocabulary words."
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"The New York Times bestselling author of The Shepherd's Life chronicles his family's farm in England's Lake District across three generations, revealing through this intimate lens the profound global transformation of agriculture and of the human relationship to the land"--
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2014
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"Twenty years have passed since Northern California, Oregon, and Washington seceded from the United States to create a new nation, Ectopia. Rumors abound of barbaric war games, tree worship, revolutionary politics, sexual extravagance. Now this mysteriouscountry admits its first American visitor: investigative reporter Will Weston, whose dispatches alternate between shock and admiration. But Ectopia gradually unravels everything Weston knows to be...
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Washington State University Press
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[2019]
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English
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"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...
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Countryman Press, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
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[2016]
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English
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In this guide to low-impact hiking and camping, Laura and Guy Waterman present a strong case for the importance of respecting the natural world while you're enjoying it. Day hikers, campers, and backpackers who follow the sensible techniques laid out in this book will help preserve the wilderness experience for generations to come.
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