Author: LEAL AND MAHARAJ Publisher: Lexington Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Each year, thirteen million anglers enjoy the sport of saltwater angling in the United States, generating an estimated $30 billion in sales and supporting nearly 350,000 jobs. Recreational saltwater f...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: We are living in the early stages of a looming worldwide extinction crisis. Abundant evidence shows that the current rate of species extinctions is nearing its highest level since the asteroid collisi...
Author: Reynolds, Mike D. Publisher: Stackpole Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Mike Reynolds' guide to meteors and meteorites is revised and updated to include the latest information about meteor study and sightings. The book covers the basics of observing, studying, and collect...
Author: Evans, Arthur V. / Hogue, James N. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: With perhaps 8,000 different species, beetles are easily the largest group of animals in California and can be found virtually everywhere in the state. They grapple over flower heads, lurk in pantries...
Author: Palmer, Tim Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Award-winning author, naturalist, and conservationist Tim Palmer presents the world of California rivers in this practical and inspiring field guide. Loaded with tips on where to hike, fish, canoe, ka...
Author: Allen, Sarah G. / Mortenson, Joe / Webb, Sophie Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: From gray whales giving birth in the lagoons of Baja California to sea otters nestled in kelp beds off California to killer whales living around Vancouver Island-this spectacular stretch of the Pacifi...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Fire is both an integral natural process in the California landscape and growing threat to its urban and suburban developments as they encroach on wildlands. Written by many of the foremost authoritie...
Author: Waldbauer, Dr. Gilbert Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The ink our ancestors wrote with, the beeswax in altar candles, the honey on our toast, the silk we wear. This enchanting book is a highly entertaining exploration of the myriad ways insects have enri...
Author: Deamer, David Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This pathbreaking book explores how life can begin, taking us from cosmic clouds of stardust, to volcanoes on Earth, to the modern chemistry laboratory. Seeking to understand life's connection to the ...
Author: Evenden, Matthew D. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Fish versus Power is an environmental history of the Fraser River (British Columbia) and the attempts to dam it for power and to defend it for salmon. Amid contemporary debates over large dam developm...
Author: Diedrich, Monica, Publisher: Two Paws Up Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Does your pet suffer from allergies or have a serious illness? Is he frequently under the weather, lacking in pep, or losing his usual stamina? Are you at your wits' end trying to find a remedy that m...
Author: Bettinger, Pete / Boston, Kevin / Siry, Jacek Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This book provides a focused understanding of contemporary forest management issues through real life examples to engage students. The methodology for the development of quantitatively-derived forest...
Description: The 21st century qualifies as one in which humanity raised environmental decay, especially climate change, as a key global concern requiring urgent political attention. The book Framework and Tools fo...
Author: FALK/HEIMLICH/FOUTZ (EDS) Publisher: AltaMira Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Most environmental learning takes place outside of the formal education system, but our understanding of how this learning actually occurs is in its infancy. By surfing the internet, watching nature d...
Author: Jacobsen, Rowan Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Many people will remember that Rachel Carson predicted a silent spring, but she also warned of a fruitless fall, a time with no pollination and no fruit. The fruitless fall nearly became a reality whe...
Description: Synopsis: Gaia is the gigantic organism that has evolved on Planet Earth. It is the mountains, plains, forests, grasslands, deserts and rivers. It is the climate and ocean currents. It hosts the creat...
Author: Martin, Glen Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Are conservation and protecting animals the same thing? In Game Changer, award-winning environmental reporter Glen Martin takes a fresh look at this question as it applies to Africa's megafauna. Marti...
Author: Leopold, Aldo Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: With this book, published more than a half-century ago, Aldo Leopold created the discipline of wild-life management. Although A Sand Country Almanac is doubtless Leopold's most popular book, Game Mana...
Description: Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than ...
Author: Lowry, Judith Larner Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Judith Lowry's voice and experiences make a rich matrix for essays that include discussions of wildflower gardening, the ecology of native grasses, wildland seed-collecting, principles of natural desi...
Author: Freedman, Jeri Publisher: Rosen Young Adult Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Throughout the world today the debate still rages over whether genetically modified food is a blessing or a curse. On one hand, genetically modified food allows farmers to grow crops in places where s...
Author: Sloan, Doris Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Why does a bit of ocean floor lie on top of Mt. Diablo? Why is Red Rock, that small, knobby island in San Francisco Bay, red? Why is Loma Prieta high? This book is for San Francisco Bay Area residents...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Throughout all ages, the activities of mankind have weighed heavily upon the environment. In turn, changes in that environment have favoured the rise of certain social groups and limited the actions o...
Author: Trager, Geoffrey Publisher: TheEbookSale Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Description: If you've been dreaming of getting started with clean, green, solar energy on your own, but decided it was just too expensive, or maybe you are not handy enough, then GO SOLAR WITHOUT BIG...
Description: The litany of environmental bad news â rapid extinction of species, pollution, depleted food sources â can be overwhelming, but there's hope too. In this thoughtful look at what's happening ...
Author: Truett, Joe C. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Part autobiography, part philosophical rumination, this evocative conservation odyssey explores the deep affinities between humans and our original habitat: grasslands. In a richly drawn, anecdotally ...
Author: Vallentine, John F. Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Grazing animals need to be managed in order to accommodate desired results in terms of animal, plant, land and economic responses. Grazing Management, 2nd Edition integrates principles and management ...
Author: Abdul-Matin, Ibrahim Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "The Earth is a mosque" Muslims are compelled by their religion to praise the Creator and to care for their community. But what is not widely known is that there are deep and long-standing connection...
Author: Abdul-Matin, Ibrahim Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: "The Earth is a mosque." Muslims are compelled by their religion to praise the Creator and to care for their community. But what is not widely known is that there are deep and long-standing connectio...
Author: Howard, Brian Clark / Leitman, Seth / Brinsky, William Publisher: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Flip the switch to energy-efficient lightingThis do-it-yourself guide makes it easy to upgrade residential and commercial lighting to reduce costs and environmental impact while maintaining or even im...
Author: Howard, Brian Clark / Leitman, Seth / Brinsky, William Publisher: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Flip the switch to energy-efficient lightingThis do-it-yourself guide makes it easy to upgrade residential and commercial lighting to reduce costs and environmental impact while maintaining or even im...
Description: Drawing on both economics and ecology, this book offers telling insights into the confusing 'jobs versus environment' debates as well as charts a recommended path towards a more co-habitable relations...
Description: Desmond Nethersole-Thompson has been studying his favourite bird, the greenshank Tringa nebularia, since May 1932. This book, published in 1976, owes much to the interest, almost an obsession, of the ...
Author: Allen, Valorie M. Publisher: Eloquent Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Synopsis: "Growing Pains - A Planet In Distress" takes an in depth look at the planet's greatest threat, that of too many people on one small planet. As you read "Growing Pains" the realization sets...
Author: Allen, Valorie M. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Each day we share the earth and its resources with a quarter million more people than the day before. Our population is increasing by three people per second, with a growth rate of more than 80 millio...
Author: Sanford, A. Whitney Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The costs of industrial agriculture are astonishing in terms of damage to the environment, human health, animal suffering, and social equity, and the situation demands that we expand our ecological im...
Author: Grant, P J. Publisher: Poyser Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This second edition of Peter Grant’s guide has been extensively revisedand has been reset throughout. Importantly, a further eight species ofgulls occurring on the west coasts of Canada and the U...
Description: Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than ...
Author: Kneese, Allen V. Publisher: North Holland Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The "Handbook of Natural Resource and Energy Economics" examines the current theory and sample current application methods for natural resource and energy economics. This third volume deals primarily ...
Author: Levy, Duncan Publisher: Happy About Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This is a book written by a kid for kids. Duncan Levy chose 18 land animals and 14 sea animals to research and share his opinion on. It contains facts that are fun to learn delivered through the type ...
Author: Rowntree, Lester Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Lester G. E. Rowntree (1879-1979), free-spirited adventurer and pioneering botanist, was fifty-two when she traded a comfortable home for the life of a peripatetic traveler in the California mountains...
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