Facts about America's Redrock Wilderness
Author | : Frederick Howard Swanson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 43 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Nature conservation |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Frederick Howard Swanson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 43 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Nature conservation |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Elspeth Huxley |
Publisher | : Andesite Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2015-08-13 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781297836534 |
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Author | : Terry Tempest Williams |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2008-12-30 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0307559408 |
In this potent collage of stories, essays, and testimony, Williams makes a stirring case for the preservation of America’s Redrock Wilderness in the canyon country of southern Utah. As passionate as she is persuasive, Williams, the beloved author of Refuge, is one of the country’s most eloquent and imaginative writers. The desert is her blood. Here she writes lyrically about the desert’s power and vulnerability, describing wonders that range from an ancient Puebloan sash of macaw feathers found in Canyonlands National Park to the desert tortoise–an animal that can “teach us the slow art of revolutionary patience” as it extends our notion of kinship with all life. She examines the civil war being waged in the West today over public and private uses of land–an issue that divides even her own family. With grace, humor, and compassionate intelligence, Williams reminds us that the preservation of wildness is not simply a political process but a spiritual one.
Author | : Terry Tempest Williams |
Publisher | : Pantheon |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
Essays on why places like the redrock desert of southern Utah matter to the soul.
Author | : Stephen Trimble |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Bears Ears National Monument (Utah) |
ISBN | : 9781937226794 |
Writer-activists deliver passionate poetry and prose championing America's imperiled red rock wilderness: sacred landscapes that inspire and nurture us all.
Author | : Elspeth Huxley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 41 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Nature conservation |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Randall K. Wilson |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2020-02-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1538126400 |
How it is that the United States—the country that cherishes the ideal of private property more than any other in the world—has chosen to set aside nearly one-third of its land area as public lands? Now in a fully revised and updated edition covering the first years of the Trump administration, Randall Wilson considers this intriguing question, tracing the often-forgotten ideas of nature that have shaped the evolution of America’s public land system. The result is a fresh and probing account of the most pressing policy and management challenges facing national parks, forests, rangelands, and wildlife refuges today. The author explores the dramatic story of the origins of the public domain, including the century-long effort to sell off land and the subsequent emergence of a national conservation ideal. Arguing that we cannot fully understand one type of public land without understanding its relation to the rest of the system, he provides in-depth accounts of the different types of public lands. With chapters on national parks, national forests, wildlife refuges, Bureau of Land Management lands, and wilderness areas, Wilson examines key turning points and major policy debates for each land type, including recent Trump Administration efforts to roll back environmental protections. He considers debates ranging from national monument designations and bison management to gas and oil drilling, wildfire policy, the bark beetle epidemic, and the future of roadless and wilderness conservation areas. His comprehensive overview offers a chance to rethink our relationship with America’s public lands, including what it says about the way we relate to, and value, nature in the United States.
Author | : Elspeth Huxley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Kenyan fiction (English) |
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Author | : Dave Foreman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2004-07 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
In Rewilding North America, Dave Foreman takes on arguably the biggest ecological threat of our time: the global extinction crisis. He not only explains the problem in clear and powerful terms, but also offers a bold, hopeful, scientifically credible, and practically achievable solution. Foreman begins by setting out the specific evidence that a mass extinction is happening and analyzes how humans are causing it. Adapting Aldo Leopold's idea of ecological wounds, he details human impacts on species survival in seven categories, including direct killing, habitat loss and fragmentation, exotic species, and climate change. Foreman describes recent discoveries in conservation biology that call for wildlands networks instead of isolated protected areas, and, reviewing the history of protected areas, shows how wildlands networks are a logical next step for the conservation movement. The final section describes specific approaches for designing such networks (based on the work of the Wildlands Project, an organization Foreman helped to found) and offers concrete and workable reforms for establishing them. The author closes with an inspiring and empowering call to action for scientists and activists alike. Rewilding North America offers both a vision and a strategy for reconnecting, restoring, and rewilding the North American continent, and is an essential guidebook for anyone concerned with the future of life on earth.