This remarkable book, a companion to the acclaimed Discovery Channel/ BBC series, is an enduring and awe-inspiring record of one of the most ambitious natural history projects ever undertaken. Using state-of-the-art cameras and technology, more than 400 stunning photographs are featured. University of California Press
ACCLAIMED AUTHOR BARBARA KINGSOLVER brings her passion for the wilderness to bear in this striking book. Trained as a biologist, Kingsolver writes authoritatively, and movingly, about the continent's virgin pockets of desert, coast, grassland, forest, and wetland. ONE-OF-A-KIND IMAGES: Specially commissioned infrared photographs, taken and hand ...
Master builder Larry Haun teams up with Habitat For Humanity, the world's leading community homebuilding organisation, to bring you this complete, step-by-step guide to building a house. This is both a skill-building book which illustrates how anyone can actually build a house, and also one which focuses on efficiency, quality and environmental ...
The true story of how the children of the Jackson Elementary School of Everett, Washington "adopted" and cleaned up a polluted creek that was once a spawning ground for salmon. After cleaning up the lake, the students stocked it with salmon eggs from a state hatchery. Later, the salmon that hatched returned to the area to lay their own eggs. ...
On India's North-East frontier a killer elephant is reported to be on the rampage, stalking Assam's paddy fields, murdering dozens of farmers and leaving behind their mutilated bodies. Local authorities call in one of India's last licensed elephant killers, Dinesh Choudhury, and issue a warrant for the animal's destruction.;Reading about the ...
Over 170 color photos depict backyard habitats and the creatures they attract. Advice on plants, food, water, and shelter for our avian friends accompanies 17 projects that the whole family will enjoy.
"Windows on Nature" includes forty of the museum's finest dioramas, depicting animals and birds from around the world. The text includes fascinating information about how the dioramas were created and who made them. It covers exploration, documentation, specimen hunting, taxidermy, landscape painting, and the craft of diorama-making. Following is ...
A noted outdoors expert and an acclaimed illustrator have banded together to create a stunning picture of the wildlife in the eastern half of the United States. Complete with observation tips. 75 illustrations.
The salmon that symbolize the Pacific Northwest's natural splendor are now threatened with extinction across much of their ancestral range. In studying the natural and human forces that shape the rivers and mountains of that region, geologist David Montgomery has learned to see the evolution and near-extinction of the salmon as a story of ...
One of the world's greatest painters of nature and three leading natural history writers have collaborated to offer this spectacular introduction to the natural habitats of Massachusetts. From the barrier beaches, heathlands, and salt marshes of the Atlantic Coast, to the teeming vernal pools, red maple swamps, and grasslands of the interior, all ...
The Fullers sold their business, donated all the money to charity, and went in search of a new dream. Twenty years later, Fuller and his wife are sharing that dream: Habitat for Humantity Interna-tional.
The award-winning author of The Natural Garden introduces readers to 35 gardens--from a cactus-filled one in Arizona to a little prairie on a rooftop--that recreate the naturally balanced plant communities found in each of the four main botanical habitats: grasslands, wetlands, drylands, and woodlands. 500 full-color photos.
In tours of nine North American ecosystems ranging from backyards to sandy shores, renowned naturalists, writers and photographers offer step-by-step instructions for a host of practical and intriguing outdoor skills and simple naturalist's techniques--from identifying trees to finding fossils. 356 full-color photographs and paintings.
As environmental awareness grows around the world, people are learning that a diversity of species and the habitat to support them is necessary to maintain the ecological health of the earth. At the same time, however, the pressure to develop wildlife habitat for human settlement and economic gain also grows, causing frequent clashes between the ...
Through interviews, historic anecdotes, artwork, and natural history information, this tribute to manatees captures the serenity, grace and fascinating behavior of these friendly, affectionate and completely defenseless giants. 175 full-color photos.
This book addresses the problems of dealing with the biology, economics, and public policy of conserving and managing Pacific salmon. Heightening the concern has been the recent dwindling of the salmon that once teemed in coastal waters. This book deals with the problems of the stressed and nearly extinct stocks of the Pacific salmon.
Salmon are the soul of the Northwest, a cultural cornerstone of the region. Today the salmon's future is uncertain and has become one of the decade's most closely watched environmental issues. Science writer Cone's masterful telling of this story traces the dramatic history of the anadromous fish; introduces environmentalists, scientists, ...
Marine researcher Aaron Adams shares his knowledge about sea grass, mangroves, salt marshes, oyster bars, shorelines, beaches, sand flats, and coral reefs from the Caribbean to the Carolinas, the Gulf of Mexico to the Florida coast, to give you what you need to know to fish for tropical, subtropical, and warm-water species. Includes descriptons of ...
A lively expedition into the sweltering desert of the American southwest reveals all sorts of fascinating creatures, including a tiny elf owl, a bouncy kangaroo rat, and a cunning trapdoor spider. In this artful beginner's exploration of animal habitats, six different environments contain a total of 48 wild things to be found hidden in places as ...
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