Habitat Preservation Abstracts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Habitat Preservation Abstracts write by . This book was released on 1979. Habitat Preservation Abstracts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Habitat Preservation Abstracts
Habitat Preservation Abstracts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Habitat Preservation Abstracts write by . This book was released on 1979. Habitat Preservation Abstracts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Amphibian Conservation and Habitat Restoration
Amphibian Conservation and Habitat Restoration - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Amphibian Conservation and Habitat Restoration write by . This book was released on 2022. Amphibian Conservation and Habitat Restoration available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Habitat Conservation Planning
Habitat Conservation Planning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Habitat Conservation Planning write by Timothy Beatley. This book was released on 2014-05-02. Habitat Conservation Planning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 forces of development and of conservation. This pioneering study focuses on a new tool for resolving the land-use conflict—the creation of habitat conservation plans (HCPs). Timothy Beatley explores the development and early results of this provision of the United States' federal Endangered Species Act, which allows development of some habitat and a certain "take" of a protected species in return for the conservation of sufficient habitat to ensure its survival and long-term recovery. Beatley looks specifically at nine HCPs in California, Nevada, Texas, and Florida, states where biological diversity and increasing populations have triggered many conflicts. Some of the HCPs include the San Bruno Mountain HCP near San Francisco, the North Key Largo HCP in the Florida Keys, the Clark County HCP near Las Vegas, Nevada, and the Balcones Canyonlands HCP near Austin, Texas. This first comprehensive overview of habitat conservation planning in the United States will be important reading for everyone involved in land-use debates.
The Abstract Wild
The Abstract Wild - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Abstract Wild write by Jack Turner. This book was released on 1996-09-01. The Abstract Wild available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. If anything is endangered in America it is our experience of wild nature—gross contact. There is knowledge only the wild can give us, knowledge specific to it, knowledge specific to the experience of it. These are its gifts to us. How wild is wilderness and how wild are our experiences in it, asks Jack Turner in the pages of The Abstract Wild. His answer: not very wild. National parks and even so-called wilderness areas fall far short of offering the primal, mystic connection possible in wild places. And this is so, Turner avows, because any managed land, never mind what it's called, ceases to be wild. Moreover, what little wildness we have left is fast being destroyed by the very systems designed to preserve it. Natural resource managers, conservation biologists, environmental economists, park rangers, zoo directors, and environmental activists: Turner's new book takes aim at these and all others who labor in the name of preservation. He argues for a new conservation ethic that focuses less on preserving things and more on preserving process and "leaving things be." He takes off after zoos and wilderness tourism with a vengeance, and he cautions us to resist language that calls a tree "a resource" and wilderness "a management unit." Eloquent and fast-paced, The Abstract Wild takes a long view to ask whether ecosystem management isn't "a bit of a sham" and the control of grizzlies and wolves "at best a travesty." Next, the author might bring his readers up-close for a look at pelicans, mountain lions, or Shamu the whale. From whatever angle, Turner stirs into his arguments the words of dozens of other American writers including Thoreau, Hemingway, Faulkner, and environmentalist Doug Peacock. We hunger for a kind of experience deep enough to change our selves, our form of life, writes Turner. Readers who take his words to heart will find, if not their selves, their perspectives on the natural world recast in ways that are hard to ignore and harder to forget.
