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1	The Expendable Future: Us Politics and the Protection of Biological Diversity more books like this by Richard J Tobin, Richard Tobin add to wishlist According to many scientists, the current destruction and extinction of numerous species will eventually lead to irreversible changes in the Earth's ecosystem. This volume is a critical evaluation of the politics of biological diversity in the USA and of state and federal policies on endangered species from the early 1960s to the present. Drawing ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Only Kayak: A Journey Into the Heart of Alaska more books like this by Kim Heacox add to wishlist Kim Heacox has lived in Alaska for 25 years, and here he writes about Glacier Bay, a wild area that he has explored by kayak, and its surrounding land. Heacox ponders environmental issues, describes the extremes of weather he has encountered, writes about his wife and friends, enumerates the joys of living where he does, and tells some harrowing ... see all copies from $2.49! new only from $6.73! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Unruly River more books like this by Robert Kelley Schneiders add to wishlist This text takes a long historical view to reconstruct the Missouri Valley environment before Euro-American settlement and then trace the environmental transformations resulting from the development projects of the 19th and 20th centuries. see all copies from $12.54! new only from $20.80! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Savage Dreams: A Journey Into the Landscape Wars of the American West more books like this by Rebecca Solnit add to wishlist If America has an Eden, it is Yosemite National Park, where millions of people go to view virgin wilderness. If America has an Armageddon, it is the arid expanse of the Nevada Test Site. This text examines these two places arguing that they are war zones, and what is at stake is the American soul. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $21.95! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Everglades: River of Grass more books like this by Marjory Stoneman Douglas add to wishlist Before 1947, when Marjory Stoneman Douglas named the Everglades a "river of grass," most people considered the area worthless. She brought the world's attention to the need to preserve the Everglades. In the Afterword, Michael Grunwald tells us what has happened to them since then. Grunwald points out that in 1947 the government was in the midst ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.40! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Fire on the Plateau: Conflict and Endurance in the American Southwest more books like this by Charles Wilkinson add to wishlist The Colorado Plateau, stretching across four states and covering nearly 80 million acres, is a unique and spectacular region. Remote, rugged, dry -- at once forlorn and glorious -- it is a separate place, a place with its own distinctive landscape, history, and future. In Fire on the Plateau, legal scholar and writer Charles Wilkinson relates the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $18.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	The New Year's Owl: Encounters with Animals, People and the Land They Share more books like this by Susan Hand Shetterly, Tim Clark (Editor), Robert Shetterly (Illustrator) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Jaguar: Struggle and Triumph in the Jungles of Belize more books like this by Alan Rabinowitz add to wishlist In the tradition of Cry of the Kalahari, this is a dramatic first-person adventure story that provides a scientist's experiences with jaguars in the wild. 32 pages of full-color and black-and-white photographs. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $74.64! \| first editions
9	Colorado River Controversies more books like this by Robert B. Stanton, Martin J. Anderson, Otis R. Marston add to wishlist see all copies from $27.50!
10	Jaguar more books like this by Alan Rabinowitz add to wishlist For two years, Rabinowitz lived among the Mayan Indians in a primitive camp tracking jaguars in order to amass the data needed to establish a perserve. This is the story of that project--an unforgettable success story of what one determined man was able to accomplish. "Packed with interest and adventure".--Jane Goodall. Photographs. see all copies from $2.14! new only from $15.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11	Green Shingles: At the Edge of Chesapeake Bay more books like this by Mr. Peter Svenson add to wishlist Peter Svenson begins his elegant, idiosyncratic exploration of the Chesapeake Bay at the doorstep of his own home--a green shingled house perched high on Mitchell's Bluff, looking out across the Bay's busy shipping lanes toward the western shore. Svenson invites us to explore various aspects of the world outside his door, from the bayside ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
12	Desert Passages: Encounters with the American Deserts more books like this by Professor Patricia Nelson Limerick add to wishlist This lively book traces the development of American attitudes toward the desert using case studies from the writings of John C Fr+(c)mont, William Lewis Manly, Mark Twain, William Ellsworth Smythe, John Van Dyke, George Wharton James, Joseph Wood Krutch, and Edward Abbey. see all copies from $6.00! new only from $19.38! \| first editions
13	Yellowstone to Yukon more books like this by Douglas H Chadwick add to wishlist This provocative tour through the vast and beautiful realm known as Y2Y (Yellowstone to Yukon) considers the past, present, and future of this renowned eco-region--and the conservation initiative that's determined to save it. 100 color photos. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.50! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Bay Country more books like this by Tom Horton add to wishlist Originally published in hardback, this book about the Chesapeake is now available in paperback from Johns Hopkins. The author, Tom Horton, is a native of Maryland's Eastern Shore, and has written about the environment for the past 15 years in the "Baltimore Sun". His stories of oysters and sea nettle, elms and rivers, barrier islands and blue ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.53! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Way of the Grizzly: The Bears of Alaska's Famed McNeil River more books like this by Tom Walker, Larry Aumiller (Photographer) add to wishlist Alaska's McNeil River State Game Sanctuary has world-wide appeal. Nowhere on earth do so many bears congregate in such large numbers. At the peak of the chum salmon run, approximately 125 bears can be found within a one-to-two-mile radius of McNeil River falls. Even more astounding is the extraordinary mix of humans and bears in the sanctuary. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.15! \| first editions
16	A Vanishing Land more books like this by Hildegarde Flanner add to wishlist see all copies from $15.00! signed copies \| first editions
17	An Island Out of Time more books like this by Tom Horton add to wishlist see all copies from $5.00! first editions
18 view cover	Conserving Wild America more books like this by Paul T Brown add to wishlist Conserving wild America may seem to be a daunting task. Yet, government wildlife agencies, private conservation organizations, sportsmen, and concerned individuals have accepted the challenge. Nationally acclaimed wildlife photographer Paul T. Brown has journeyed across the continent to capture breathtaking images of some of North America's most ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
19 view cover	America's Wildlife Refuges: Lands of Promise more books like this by Jeanne L Clark, Tom Leeson, Ma (Photographer), Pat Leeson (Photographer) add to wishlist From the northern shores and tundra, across the western plains and mountains, to the swamps and southern shores, AMERICA'S WILDLIFE REFUGES honors and celebrates the centennial anniversary and incredible success stories of our nation's wildlife refuges. Larger than our National Park System, the National Wildlife Refuge System is the largest system ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.53! \| first editions \| SVS
20	Governmental problems in wild life conservation more books like this by Robert Howe Connery add to wishlist see all copies from $13.50! new only from $44.00! \| first editions
21 view cover	Wilderness and the American Mind more books like this by Professor Roderick Nash add to wishlist Roderick Nash's classic study of America's changing attitudes toward wilderness has received wide acclaim since its initial publication in 1967. The Los Angeles Times has listed it among the one hundred most influential books published in the last quarter century, Outside Magazine has included it in a survey of "books that changed our world", and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.25! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Saving America's Wildlife more books like this by Thomas R Dunlap add to wishlist "Imagine an American of the 1850s listening to our debates over wildlife and wilderness," proposes Thomas Dunlap. "Coming from a society that was seeking to kill every wolf on the continent, what could he make of our plans to reintroduce the timber wolf into parts of its old range?" This history of wildlife preservation efforts goes far beyond the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $30.35! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	American Sportsmen and the Origins of Conservation more books like this by John F Reiger add to wishlist Environmentalists who believe that hunters and anglers are interested only in the kill and the catch may be surprised to learn that sportsmen were originally in the vanguard of the conservation movement. Reiger's work has been hailed as an authoritative look at these early conservationists; now his landmark book is available in an expanded edition ... see all copies from $3.97! new only from $29.55! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Condor's Shadow more books like this by David S Wilcove add to wishlist This overview of North American ecosystems discusses hundreds of extinct species, the factors that have led to their elimination, and the calamitous impact the extinction of any plant or animal species has on the environment. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Wilderness management more books like this by John C Hendee, George H Stankey, Robert C Lucas add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $106.59! \| first editions

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