A Region Of Astonishing Beauty

Author : Roger L. Williams
Publisher : Roberts Rinehart
ISBN 13 : 1461663946
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Region of Astonishing Beauty written by Roger L. Williams and published by Roberts Rinehart. This book was released on 2003-05-07 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As we approach the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in 2004, attention will inevitably turn to the nineteenth-century explorers who risked life and limb to interpret the natural history of the American West. Beginning with Meriwether Lewis and his discovery of the bitterroot, the goal of most explorers was not merely to find an adequate route to the Pacific, but also to comment on the state of the region's ecology and its suitability for agriculture, and, of course, to collect plant specimens. In this book, Williams follows the trail of over a dozen explorers who "botanized" the Rocky Mountains, and who, by the end of the nineteenth century, became increasingly convinced that the flora of the American West was distinctive. The sheer wonder of discover, which is not lost on Williams or his subjects, was best captured by botanist Edwin James in 1820 as he emerged above timberline in Colorado to come upon "a region of astonishing beauty."

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Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.3Q/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dublin Philosophical Journal, and Scientific Review. ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Campbell
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register written by Thomas Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John F. Freeman
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 0870819836
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book High Plains Horticulture written by John F. Freeman and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2008-11-30 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High Plains Horticulture explores the significant, civilizing role that horticulture has played in the development of farmsteads and rural and urban communities on the High Plains portions of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming, drawing on both the science and the application of science practiced since 1840. Freeman explores early efforts to supplement native and imported foodstuffs, state and local encouragement to plant trees, the practice of horticulture at the Union Colony of Greeley, the pioneering activities of economic botanists Charles Bessey (in Nebraska) and Aven Nelson (in Wyoming), and the shift from food production to community beautification as the High Plains were permanently settled and became more urbanized. In approaching the history of horticulture from the perspective of local and unofficial history, Freeman pays tribute to the tempered idealism, learned pragmatism, and perseverance of individuals from all walks of life seeking to create livable places out of the vast, seemingly inhospitable High Plains. He also suggests that, slowly but surely, those that inhabit them have been learning to adjust to the limits of that fragile land. High Plains Horticulture will appeal to not only scientists and professionals but also gardening enthusiasts interested in the history of their hobby on the High Plains.

Author : Torrey Botanical Club
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club written by Torrey Botanical Club and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains proceedings.

Author : Stacy S. Kowtko
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313350892
Total Pages : 1039 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America's Natural Places [5 volumes] written by Stacy S. Kowtko and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-11-25 with total page 1039 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely set invites readers to celebrate the most beautiful and environmentally important places in the United States. Each of the United States boasts numerous special places that are significant for their biodiversity, ecology, habitats for rare and endangered species, or other qualities that make them unique and worthy of preservation. These sites range from nature preserves to state and national parks, wildlife areas, ecosystems that provide a home to diverse flora and fauna, and even scenic vistas. The five volumes of America's Natural Places examine over 200 of the most spectacular and important of these places, with each entry describing the importance of the area, the flora and fauna that it supports, threats to the survival of the region, and what is being done to protect it. Organized by state within regional volumes, this encyclopedia both informs the reader about the wide variety of natural areas across the country and identifies places nearby that demonstrate that preserving such treasurers is of immediate importance to every U.S. citizen.

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Total Pages : 554 pages
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Download or read book Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains written by and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John F. Freeman
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1607322994
Total Pages : 263 pages
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Download or read book Black Hills Forestry written by John F. Freeman and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first study focused on the history of the Black Hills National Forest, its centrality to life in the region, and its preeminence within the National Forest System, Black Hills Forestry is a cultural history of the most commercialized national forest in the nation. One of the first forests actively managed by the federal government and the site of the first sale of federally owned timber to a private party, the Black Hills National Forest has served as a management model for all national forests. Its many uses, activities, and issues—recreation, timber, mining, grazing, tourism, First American cultural usage, and the intermingling of public and private lands—expose the ongoing tensions between private landowners and public land managers. Freeman shows how forest management in the Black Hills encapsulates the Forest Service's failures to keep up with changes in the public's view of forest values until compelled to do so by federal legislation and the courts. In addition, he explores how more recent events in the region like catastrophic wildfires and mountain pine beetle epidemics have provided forest managers with the chance to realign their efforts to create and maintain a biologically diverse forest that can better resist natural and human disturbances. This study of the Black Hills offers an excellent prism through which to view the history of the US Forest Service's land management policies. Foresters, land managers, and regional historians will find Black Hills Forestry a valuable resource.

Author : Kyhl D. Lyndgaard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317087399
Total Pages : 194 pages
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Download or read book Captivity Literature and the Environment written by Kyhl D. Lyndgaard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his study of captivity narratives, Kyhl Lyndgaard argues that these accounts have influenced land-use policy and environmental attitudes at the same time that they reveal the complex relationship between ethnicity, landscape, and authorship. In connecting these themes, Lyndgaard offers readers an alternative environmental literature, one that is dependent on an understanding of nature as home rather than as a place of temporary retreat. He examines three captivity narratives written in the 1820s and 1830s - A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison, The Captivity and Adventures of John Tanner, and Life of Black Hawk -all of which engage with the Jacksonian policy of Indian removal and resist tropes of the so-called Vanishing Indian. As Lyndgaard shows, the authors and the editors with whom they collaborated often saw their stories as a plea for environmental and social justice. At the same time, audiences have embraced them for their vision of a more inclusive and less exploitative American society than was proffered by the rhetoric of Manifest Destiny. Their legacy is that while environmental and social justice has been slow in fulfilment, their continued popularity testifies to the fact that the struggle for justice has never been ceded.

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Total Pages : 510 pages
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