Almost half of all life on earth may exist in the world's forest canopies. They play a vital role in maintaining the planet's climate, yet remain largely unexplored owing to difficulties of access. This book shows how canopy science answers many outstanding questions, among which are some of the most pressing environmental issues.
Outlines a vision for a restoration-based environmentalism that has emerged from the author's work over twenty-five years. This work explores the promise of restoration, both as a way of reversing environmental damage and as a context for negotiating our relationship with nature.
Offers a focused understanding of contemporary forest management issues through real life examples to engage students. This book explains the methodology for the development of quantitatively-derived forest management plans - from gathering information to the implementation of plans at the forest level.
The true story of the US Forest Service's firefighters, the Smokejumpers, who parachuted into a remote forest fire in Montana on August 5th 1949. Three hours later, twelve of them were dead or fatally burned.
Preface 1. Introduction--Alfonso Mata and Jaime Echeverria PART I. BIODIVERSITY AND ECOLOGICAL STUDIES A. COSTA RICAN DRY FOREST 2. Flowering Phenology and Pollination Systems Diversity in the Seasonal Dry Forest--Gordon W. Frankie, William A. Haber, S. Bradleigh Vinson, Kamal S. Bawa, Peter S. Ronchi, and Nelson Zamora 3. Breeding Structure of Neotropical Dry-Forest Tree Species in Fragmented Landscapes--James L. Hamrick and Victoria J. Apsit 4. Impact of Global Changes on the Reproductive Biology of Trees in Tropical Dry Forests--Kamal S. Bawa 5. Tropical Dry-Forest Mammals of Palo Verde: Ecology and Conservation in a Changing Landscape--Kathryn E. Stoner and Robert M. Timm 6. The Conservation Values of Bees and Ants in the Costa Rican Dry Forest--S. Bradleigh Vinson, Sean T. O'Keefe, and Gordon W. Frankie 7. Ecology of Dry-Forest Wildland Insects in the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste--Daniel H. Janzen B. BIOTIC RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHER COSTA RICAN FORESTS 8. Diversity, Migration, and Conservation of Butterflies in Northern Costa Rica--William A. Haber and Robert D. Stevenson 9. Watershed Ecology and Conservation: Hydrological Resources in the Northwest of Costa Rica--Alfonso Mata 10. Where the Dry Forest Feeds the Sea: The Gulf of Nicoya Estuary--Jose A. Vargas and Alfonso Mata 11. Mangrove Forests under Dry Seasonal Climates in Costa Rica--Jorge A. Jimenez C. BIOTIC RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHER GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS 12. Geographical Distribution, Ecology, and Conservation Status of Costa Rican Dry-Forest Avifauna--Gilbert Barrantes and Julio E. Sanchez 13. An Ultrasonically Silent Night: The Tropical Dry Forest without Bats--Richard K. LaVal 14. Biodiversity and Conservation of Middle American Dry-Forest Herpetofauna--Mahmood Sasa and Federico Bolanos 15. Parque Marino Las Baulas: Conservation Lessons from a New National Park and From 45 Years of Conservation of Sea Turtles in Costa Rica--James R. Spotila and Frank V. Paladino 16. Prospects for Circa Situm Tree Conservation in Mesoamerican Dry-Forest Agro-ecosystem
Scholars have long known that the Grail is essentially legendary, a mystic symbol forever sought by those seeking Enlightenment, a quest in which the search is as important as the result. This work traces the origin of the idea of fertility and regeneration back beyond the time of the Celtic warrior tribes of Britain to ancient, physical source.
The Middle Ages saw a flourishing of mysticism that was astonishing for its richness and distinctiveness. This book examines a number of women whose lives exemplify traditions which were central to medieval theology but whose contributions have tended to be dismissed as 'merely spiritual' by the scholars.
With Kids' Safari, an exciting six-level series for elementary school, students acquire basic structures and vocabulary in English as they become friends with delightful characters in their natural habitats. Each level takes students on a new adventure using the different settings of garden and forest, sea, rainforest, savannah, desert, and the polar regions. Learning is enhanced with a wide range of stories and non-fiction readings, manual activities, lively songs, and projects that provide the opportunity to practice the four skills and recycle language. Students' imagination and creativity are stimulated as they role-play with puppets, move like different animals through motivating TPR activities, and play a variety of games.
With Kids' Safari, an exciting six-level series for elementary school, students acquire basic structures and vocabulary in English as they become friends with delightful characters in their natural habitats. Each level takes students on a new adventure using the different settings of garden and forest, sea, rainforest, savannah, desert, and the polar regions. Learning is enhanced with a wide range of stories and non-fiction readings, manual activities, lively songs, and projects that provide the opportunity to practice the four skills and recycle language. Students' imagination and creativity are stimulated as they role-play with puppets, move like different animals through motivating TPR activities, and play a variety of games.
Part of a series that teaches the main characteristics of living and nonliving things from a particular habitat. The repetitive nature of the language in a question and answer format aims to encourage observation skills and scientific investigation.
Forester describes how humans have occupied and managed the northern borderlands of Minnesota, from tribal burning to pioneer and industrial logging to evolving conceptions of wilderness and restoration forestry. On the surface a story of Minnesota's borderlands, the book more broadly explores the nation's history of resource extraction and wilderness preservation, casting forward to consider what today's actions may mean for the future of America's forests.
From early settlers and industrialists seeking wealth to modern visitors valuing tranquillity, the region known as the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness has a fascinating ecological history. This title shows how the global story of logging, forestry, conservation, and resource management unfolded in northern Minnesota.
Tropical mountain forests are very rich in species and are generally considered as hotspots of biodiversity. This title presents a synthesis of the ecological research in Germany on the tropical mountain forest, from an interdisciplinary perspective.
This field guide at last provides an authoritative and handy source for identifying amphibians and reptiles of Costa Rica's renowned Atlantic lowland tropical forests. Colorful frogs, lizards that can run across water, snapping turtles, spotted geckos, boa constrictors, crocodiles, and many other fascinating yet secretive species of amphibians and reptiles flourish in the region's myriad microhabitats. The La Selva Biological Station, a protected reserve, boasts a rich biota, making it and the surrounding area one of the most visited tropical forest sites in the world. For travelers, ecotourists, and biologists, this comprehensive guide, written by two distinguished experts on the area's amphibians and reptiles, will be an essential resource while visiting La Selva and the surrounding tropical forests of Costa Rica. In addition to providing reliable field identification, it will help visitors to this area better understand the overall role of Central American amphibians and reptiles in the natural world as well as conservation efforts now being undertaken to ensure the survival of these intriguing creatures.
There is growing evidence that even if modest control policies are adopted, increasing greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere will lead to global warming over the next century and beyond. This book discusses important scientific and policy relevant information about climate change and global forests.
A forest fire is any uncontrolled fire that occurs in the wilderness. Wildlife behavior is variably dependent on factors such as fuel type, moisture content in the fuel, humidity, wind speed, topology, geographic location and ambient temperature. This book looks at the causes of forest fires, their ecological effects and preventive strategies.
Papua New Guinea is a country of great diversity. With over seven hundred languages, as many cultures, diverse physical types, and a landmass encompassing coral reef, mangrove swamp, rain forest, mountain ranges, and extensive river systems, Papua New Guinea has long attracted the interest of scientists and others seeking to understand or control some part of its rich diversity. Discovering order in this diversity is not easy. This collection offers perspective and understanding into Papua New Guinea's varied social scene and the challenging political and economic realities of a recently independent country. The twenty contributors to this volume bring their perspective in one of four areas: The State and National Identity, Economic Development, The New Society, and The People's Welfare. The book is written for upper division and graduate-level courses on Papua New Guinea or the contemporary Pacific. It is also useful for specialists in Third World development who do not know much about Papua New Guinea, and as a reference work for Papua New Guinea specialists.
List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments PART I: FOUNDATIONS 1. "These Mountains Look Too Ugly and I See Too Much Work Ahead": Building the Southern Pacific Company, 1850-1930 2. Men of Vision: Southern Pacific Leaders, Land, Agriculture, and the Development of California and the West PART II: LAND SETTLEMENT 3. "Stand on the Rights of the Company and Make a Square Fight of It": Land-Grant Myths, Conflicts with Government, and Squatterism 4. The Mussel Slough Affair 5. A Land of "Well-tilled Little Farms": Land-Grant Development 6. Promoting the Far West PART III: WATER 7. "The Satisfactory Supply Is Yet Undiscovered": The Southern Pacific as a Pioneer Water Developer 8. Private Irrigation 9. "This Splendid Country Is to Be Reclaimed": Public Irrigation 10. "The Government Is Hard to Deal With": Federal Reclamation PART IV: AGRICULTURE 11. Promoting Scientific Agriculture 12. "The Damndest Railroading You Ever Heard Of": Marketing the Produce of Western Farms PART V: CONSERVATION 13. "Shall This Destruction Proceed?": Wilderness Preservation 14. Conserving Forest and Rangeland Resources Epilogue A Note on Manuscript Sources Notes Abbreviations for Collections and Repositories Index
A memoir of the 22nd Infantry Regiment - a unit that Ernest Hemingway stayed with for five months. It describes the unit's historic WWII drive across France and the bloody Battle of the Hurtgen Forest, and relates a moving account of men who enlisted to fight in a just cause.
In 1700, Maryland's new capital at Annapolis was a hamlet in a wilderness whose shoreline looked, according to one new arrival, "like a forest standing in water." By the middle of the 18th century a remarkable collection of men and women had made it into "one of the most sparkling communities in British America."
Provides an account of the first setback suffered by the Allies following the invasion of Europe. This book assesses provides an insight into command decisions at both local and staff levels and the lessons that can be drawn from one of the bloodiest battles of World War II. It also demonstrates the flaws in the American strategy.
The groundbreaking canopy-access and rain forest research at Lambir Hills National Park in Sarawak, Malaysia, has contributed an immense body of knowledge. This work synthesizes its major studies. It focuses on plant-animal interactions and some of the foundations that create and maintain tropical diversity, especially pollination.
At a time when most mothers warned their daughters against marrying in the British Forest Service, there was Olive Smythies, the wife of distinguished Forest Officer, Evelyn Smythies. Olive Smythies looked forward to travelling with her husband, went camping into the jungles, and even went shooting with him. This book tells her story.
Fire seized areas in 2000 in Europe only were over 920,000 ha. This monograph emphasises the importance of the scope, by which forest fires, from year to year endanger the environment, including casualties.
During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, forests and woodlands played an instrumental role in the formation of individual and national identities in England. Focusing on pastoral literature in early modern England as an emerging form of nature writing, this book analyzes what happens when pastoral writing is set in forests.
With Kids' Safari, an exciting six-level series for elementary school, students acquire basic structures and vocabulary in English as they become friends with delightful characters in their natural habitats. Each level takes students on a new adventure using the different settings of garden and forest, sea, rainforest, savannah, desert, and the polar regions. Learning is enhanced with a wide range of stories and non-fiction readings, manual activities, lively songs, and projects that provide the opportunity to practice the four skills and recycle language. Students' imagination and creativity are stimulated as they role-play with puppets, move like different animals through motivating TPR activities, and play a variety of games.
Reaching from interior Alaska across Canada to Labrador and Newfoundland, North America's boreal forest is the largest wilderness area left on the planet. This title brings together research on boreal bird biology and conservation. It highlights the importance of the region to the global avifauna.
These papers are organized into sections on related topics, each introduced with a discussion of their role in subsequent research. Topics include: perspectives on the origins of tropical diversity, plant-animal interactions, patterns of species diversity, and conservation biology.
Tells the story of one of the largest timber magnates in Canada during the early 20th century. The book includes documentation of the forest that the company logged and throws new light on history shattering current myths. It provides an insight into days of rampant entrepreneurialism and its impact on Ontario forests.
Reveals the story of twentieth-century forest creation, and the Eureka moment in the 1980s that challenged foresters and conservationists to work together on fresh ideas.
Deals with the idea of a family level society, discussed and disputed by anthropologists for nearly half a century. This work states that the Matsigenka people of southeastern Peru cannot be understood or appreciated except as a family level society; the family level of sociocultural integration is for them a lived reality.
Focusing on East African forest insects, this monograph distils 135 years of scientific and historical literature extending from before the colonial era into a survey of this region's major pests of trees and wood, as well as their antagonists. It also addresses insects of social and economic importance.
In this wide-ranging exploration of the role of forests in Western thought, Robert Pogue Harrison enriches our understanding not only of the forest's place in the cultural imagination of the West, but also of the ecological dilemmas that now confront us so urgently. Consistently insightful and beautifully written, this work is especially compelling at a time when the forest, as a source of wonder, respect, and meaning, disappears daily from the earth. "Forests is one of the most remarkable essays on the human place in nature I have ever read, and belongs on the small shelf that includes Raymond Williams' masterpiece, The Country and the City. Elegantly conceived, beautifully written, and powerfully argued, [Forests] is a model of scholarship at its passionate best. No one who cares about cultural history, about the human place in nature, or about the future of our earthly home, should miss it.--William Cronon, Yale Review
Preface Part I Theory and Practice 1 Introduction: Ecological Knowledge, Theory and Information in Space and TimeSamuel A. Cushman and Falk Huettmann 2 Space and Time in Ecology: Noise or Fundamental Driver?Samuel A. Cushman 3 The Problem of Ecological Scaling in Spatially Complex, Nonequilibrium Ecological SystemsSamuel A. Cushman, Jeremy Littell, and Kevin McGarigal 4 Landscape Ecology: Past, Present, and FutureSamuel A. Cushman, Jeffery S. Evans, and Kevin McGarigal 5 The Gradient Paradigm: A Conceptual and Analytical Framework for Landscape EcologySamuel A. Cushman, Kevin Gutzweiler, Jeffrey S. Evans, and Kevin McGarigal Part II Method and Data 6 Data on Distribution and Abundance: Monitoring for Research and ManagementSamuel A. Cushman and Kevin S. McKelvey 7 Animal Movement Data: GPS Telemetry, Autocorrelation and the Need for Path-Level AnalysisSamuel A. Cushman 8 Using a Random Forest Model and Public Data to Predict the Distribution of Prey for Marine Wildlife ManagementSteffen Oppel and Falk Huettmann 9 Landscape Genomics: A Brief PerspectiveMichael K. Schwartz, Gordon Luikart, Kevin S. McKelvey,and Samuel A. Cushman 10 Spatial Information Management in Wildlife Ecology: Adding Spatially Explicit Behaviour Data to the Equation?Kim Jochum and Falk Huettmann 11 Critical Remote Sensing Contributions to Spatial Wildlife Ecological Knowledge and Management Gregory J. McDermid, Nicholas C. Coops, Michael A. Wulder, Steven E. Franklin, and Nicole E. Seitz 12 Spatial Data Management Through Metadata: Global Concepts, Formats, Tools and RequirementsVivian Hutchison 13 Free Database Availability, Metadata and the Internet: An Example of Two High Latitude Components of the Census of Marine LifeBodil Bluhm, David Watts, and Falk Huettmann 14 Components of Spatial Information Management in Wildlife Ecology: Software for Statistical and Modeling AnalysisHawthorne L. Beyer, Jeff Jenness, and Samuel A. Cushman 15 Spatial Analysis of Wildlife Distribution and Disease SpreadMarie-Josee Fortin, Mark R.T. Da
Ecoforestry focuses on the new paradigm in forestry -- the philosophy, goals, policies, and practices of ecologically and economically sustainable forest use -- including ecoforestry principles and practices; forest ecosystem components and restoration; wood and forest products certification; and current ecoforestry practitioners and techniques. Contributors include James Agee, Herb Hammond, Chris Maser, Nancy Turner, Arne Naess and Gary Snyder.
Protecting forests around the world has become a big challenge. This book covers the most vital and immediate concerns of the environment and tries to provide readers with global environmental guidelines with respect to climate changes, forest management, biodiversity conservation, biosafety and desert protection.
One feature of forestry is the relative ignorance of foresters about what they are growing. This is often reinforced by lack of market interest and utilisation experience. This book intends to bridge these gaps of knowledge. Triggered by the author's economic analyses in the late 1960s, New Zealand forestry policy changed from 25 per cent of production for export to over 70 per cent. At the same time the Establishment had rejected the silvicultural approach the author had evolved which questioned certain fundamentals of conventional forestry. At that time, Japan had been taking up to 25 per cent of New Zealand's total log production, but there was no real understanding of the Japanese market. To study this in-depth, the author spent three years in Japan. The book contains the valuable research born out of his field work there, covering the marketing as well as the silviculture, sawnwood-grades and economic sides of plantation forestry. The book also included almost 40 photographs taken by the author on the various forest species in Japan.TARGET AUDIENCE: Policy makers, researchers, tertiary students, civil servants, local government officials and all those interested in silviculture, Japanese forestry and timber industry.
With Kids' Safari, an exciting six-level series for elementary school, students acquire basic structures and vocabulary in English as they become friends with delightful characters in their natural habitats. Each level takes students on a new adventure using the different settings of garden and forest, sea, rainforest, savannah, desert, and the polar regions. Learning is enhanced with a wide range of stories and non-fiction readings, manual activities, lively songs, and projects that provide the opportunity to practice the four skills and recycle language. Students' imagination and creativity are stimulated as they role-play with puppets, move like different animals through motivating TPR activities, and play a variety of games.
With Kids' Safari, an exciting six-level series for elementary school, students acquire basic structures and vocabulary in English as they become friends with delightful characters in their natural habitats. Each level takes students on a new adventure using the different settings of garden and forest, sea, rainforest, savannah, desert, and the polar regions. Learning is enhanced with a wide range of stories and non-fiction readings, manual activities, lively songs, and projects that provide the opportunity to practice the four skills and recycle language. Students' imagination and creativity are stimulated as they role-play with puppets, move like different animals through motivating TPR activities, and play a variety of games.
Explains measuring products cut from tree boles, measuring attributes of standing trees, inventorying volumes of forest stands, and predicting growth of individual trees and stands of trees. This work also provides background information on statistical methods, sampling designs, land measurements, and the use of aerial photographs.
Providing a comprehensive introduction to the principles of genetics as important to forest trees, this text integrates the varied sub-disciplines of genetics and their applications in gene conservation, tree improvement and biotechnology.
