Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book Series – serie
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Remaking Wormsloe Plantation
The Environmental History of a Lowcountry Landscape
E-bok, 2012
472 kr
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Why do we preserve certain landscapes while developing others without restraint? Drew A. Swanson’s in-depth look at Wormsloe plantation, located on the salt marshes outside of Savannah, Georgia, explores that question while revealing the broad historical forces that have shaped the lowcountry …
Marsh Mud and Mummichogs
An Intimate Natural History of Coastal Georgia
E-bok, 2015
412 kr
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“This book,” writes marine biologist Evelyn B. Sherr, “is meant to give others an understanding of the fascinating life of the region, from the smallest creatures in marsh mud and estuarine water, to the mummichogs and multitudes of other animals that find food and shelter in the vast expanses of …
Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies
Providence Canyon and the Soils of the South
E-bok, 2015
613 kr
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Providence Canyon State Park, also known as Georgia’s “Little Grand Canyon,” preserves a network of massive erosion gullies allegedly caused by poor farming practices during the nineteenth century. It is a park that protects the scenic results of an environmental disaster. While little known today, …
Coyote Settles the South
Av John Lane
E-bok, 2016
336 kr
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One night, poet and environmental writer John Lane tuned in to a sound from behind his house that he had never heard before: the nearby eerie and captivating howls of coyotes. Since this was Spartanburg, South Carolina, and not Missoula, Montana, Lane set out to discover all he could about his new …
Tracking the Golden Isles
The Natural and Human Histories of the Georgia Coast
E-bok, 2020
565 kr
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With this collection of essays, Anthony J. Martin invites us to investigate animal and human traces on the Georgia coast and the remarkable stories these traces, both modern and fossil, tell us. Readers will learn how these traces enabled geologists to discover that the remains of ancient barrier …
And the Coastlands Wait
How the Grassroots Battle to Save Georgia's Marshlands Was Fought—and Won
E-bok, 2020
379 kr
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A broad-based coalition of conservative southern politicians, countercultural activists, environmental scientists, sportsmen, devout Christians, garden clubs in Atlanta, and others came together to push the Coastal Marshlands Protection Act of 1970 through the Georgia state legislature. The law was …
Saving the Georgia Coast
A Political History of the Coastal Marshlands Protection Act
Av Paul Bolster
E-bok, 2020
351 kr
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Fifty years ago Georgia chose how it would use the natural environment of its coast. The General Assembly passed the Coastal Marshlands Protection Act in 1970, and, surprisingly, Lester Maddox, a governor who had built a conservative reputation by defending segregation, signed it into law. With …
Irreplaceable
The Fight to Save Our Wild Places
Häftad, 2020
349 kr
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All across the world, irreplaceable habitats are under threat. Unique ecosystems of plants and animals are being destroyed by human intervention. From the tiny to the vast, from marshland to meadow, and from America to England, Greece, and India, they are disappearing. Irreplaceable is not only a …
