Americas Marine Sanctuaries

Author : NAT'L MARINE SANCTUARY FDN
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588346668
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America's Marine Sanctuaries written by NAT'L MARINE SANCTUARY FDN and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary illustrated overview of the National Marine Sanctuary System and a guide to its fourteen protected underwater locations America's Marine Sanctuaries tells the story of fourteen underwater places so important they are under special protection, together forming the US National Marine Sanctuary System. These sanctuaries, spanning more than 620,000 square miles and ranging from the Florida Keys to the Great Lakes and to the Hawaiian Islands, are critical and breathtaking marine habitats that provide homes to endangered and threatened species. They also preserve America's rich maritime heritage and act as living laboratories for science, research, education, and conservation, offering outdoor recreation experiences for all ages. Through 175 full-color photographs and lively narrative, America's Marine Sanctuaries showcases each of the marine sanctuaries and the creatures that live there, from whales and manatees to Hawaiian monk seals and Laysan ducks, as well as sunken ships from the Ghost Fleet and USS Monitor to Shipwreck Alley. The book underscores how marine sanctuaries have shaped the nation's development, survival, and identity, and celebrates these protected underwater treasures for all they can tell us about our communities, our country, and our world.

Author : Bruce G. Terrell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fathoming Our Past written by Bruce G. Terrell and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : A. Roger Ekirch
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525563636
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Sanctuary written by A. Roger Ekirch and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1797 the bloodiest mutiny ever suffered by the Royal Navy took place on the British frigate HMS Hermione off the coast of Puerto Rico. Jonathan Robbins, a reputed American sailor who had been impressed into service, made his way to American shores. President John Adams bowed to Britain’s request for his extradition. Convicted of murder and piracy by a court-martial in Jamaica, Robbins was hanged. Adams’s catastrophic miscalculation ignited a political firestorm, only to be fanned by Robbins’s failure to receive his constitutional rights of due process and trial by jury by an American court. American Sanctuary brilliantly lays out in riveting detail the story of how the Robbins affair, amid the turbulent presidential campaign of 1800, inflamed the new nation and set in motion a constitutional crisis, resulting in Adams’s defeat and Thomas Jefferson’s election as the third president of the United States. Robbins’s martyrdom led directly to the country’s historic decision to grant political asylum to foreign refugees—a major achievement in fulfilling the promise of American independence.

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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428961054
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our National Marine Sanctuaries written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John D. Broadwater
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1603444734
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book USS Monitor written by John D. Broadwater and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lavish illustrations (photographs, site drawings, and artifact sketches) complement this informative and highly readable account. Naval warfare buffs, amateurs and professionals involved in maritime archaeology, and Civil War aficionados will be intrigued and informed by USS Monitor A Historic Ship Completes Its Final Voyage.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Oceanography, Great Lakes, and the Outer Continental Shelf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book National Marine Sanctuary Program Reauthorization written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Oceanography, Great Lakes, and the Outer Continental Shelf and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sylvia A. Earle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Ocean written by Sylvia A. Earle and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores America's twelve marine sanctuaries, from the relics of lost ships at Monitor Marine Sanctuary in North Carolina to the huge underwater cliffs in Monterey Bay, California.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309072867
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marine Protected Areas written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-06-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the ocean-and the resources within-seem limitless, there is clear evidence that human impacts such as overfishing, habitat destruction, and pollution disrupt marine ecosystems and threaten the long-term productivity of the seas. Declining yields in many fisheries and decay of treasured marine habitats, such as coral reefs, has heightened interest in establishing a comprehensive system of marine protected areas (MPAs)-areas designated for special protection to enhance the management of marine resources. Therefore, there is an urgent need to evaluate how MPAs can be employed in the United States and internationally as tools to support specific conservation needs of marine and coastal waters. Marine Protected Areas compares conventional management of marine resources with proposals to augment these management strategies with a system of protected areas. The volume argues that implementation of MPAs should be incremental and adaptive, through the design of areas not only to conserve resources, but also to help us learn how to manage marine species more effectively.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The National Marine Sanctuary Program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Seaborn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Underwater Wilderness written by Charles Seaborn and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing 120 color photos, here is a stunning visual tour of the marine sanctuaries of the East and West Coasts and Hawaii. Within these pages, photos by the nation's premier underwater photographers take readers on an exciting excursion through each of the U.S.'s eight distinct coastal zones. 10 maps.