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Book Category: Food & Agriculture
With land values skyrocketing and cattle prices falling, ranchers across the American West are seeking to capitalize on a lifetime of stewardship.
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Commons—lands, waters, and resources that are not legally owned and controlled by a single private entity, such as ocean and coastal areas, the atmosphere, public lands, freshwater aquifers, and migratory species—are an increasingly contentious issue in...
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Book Category: Water
North America's freshwater habitats and the extraordinary biodiversity they contain are facing unprecedented threats from a range of sources, including flow alteration, habitat fragmentation, introduced species, and overall land use changes.
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Book Category: Oceans
Over a third of the nation's fish stocks currently are overfished. These stocks historically supported some of America's most important fisheries: cod, salmon, rockfish, tuna, and red snapper, to list only a few.
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Communication and co-operation among all conservation bodies and concerned individuals are vital to effective conservation and to securing the funding and other resources needed.
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Evidence is mounting that redwood forests, like many other ecosystems, cannot survive as small, isolated fragments in human-altered landscapes.
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Book Category: Biodiversity & Wildlife
Lauded in the New York Times science section as "a sweeping analysis of the ecosystems of the United States and Canada," this volume represents an unparalleled source of information and data for scientists and conservationists working in North...
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For more than 30 years, John Tillman Lyle (1934-1998) was one of the leading thinkers in the field of ecological design.
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Book Category: Biodiversity & Wildlife
In recent years, the desire for greater creature comforts and material success has come to dominate the goals and values of most Americans -- in the pithy language of the bumper sticker, “He who dies with the most toys wins.” Often, however, this “...
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Book Category: Business & Economics
A range of powerful forces -- increasing demand for wood, uncertain and decreasing supply, increasing environmental pressures, and growing markets for environmentally certified wood -- are changing the way the forest products industry conducts business.