Reading The Forested Landscape
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Reading The Forested Landscape
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Author : Tom Wessels
language : en
Publisher: Nature
Release Date : 1999
Reading The Forested Landscape written by Tom Wessels and has been published by Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Nature categories.
Chronicles the forest in New England from the Ice Age to current challenges
Forest Forensics A Field Guide To Reading The Forested Landscape
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Author : Tom Wessels
language : en
Publisher: The Countryman Press
Release Date : 2010-09-20
Forest Forensics A Field Guide To Reading The Forested Landscape written by Tom Wessels and has been published by The Countryman Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-20 with Nature categories.
Take some of the mystery out of a walk in the woods with this new field guide from the author of Reading the Forested Landscape. Thousands of readers have had their experience of being in a forest changed forever by reading Tom Wessels's Reading the Forested Landscape. Was this forest once farmland? Was it logged in the past? Was there ever a major catastrophe like a fire or a wind storm that brought trees down? Now Wessels takes that wonderful ability to discern much of the history of the forest from visual clues and boils it all down to a manageable field guide that you can take out to the woods and use to start playing forest detective yourself. Wessels has created a key—a fascinating series of either/or questions—to guide you through the process of analyzing what you see. You’ll feel like a woodland Sherlock Holmes. No walk in the woods will ever be the same.
Reading The Landscape Of America
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Author : May Theilgaard Watts
language : en
Publisher: Nature Study Guild Publishers
Release Date : 1999
Reading The Landscape Of America written by May Theilgaard Watts and has been published by Nature Study Guild Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Nature categories.
In this natural history classic, the author takes the reader on field trips to landscapes across America, both domesticated and wild. She shows how to read the stories written in the land, interpreting the clues laid down by history, culture, and natural forces. A renowned teacher, writer and conservationist in her native Midwest, Watts studied with Henry Cowles, the pioneering American ecologist. She was the first to explain his theories of plant succesion to the general public. Her graceful, witty essays, with charming illustrations by the author, are still relevant and engaging today, as she invites us to see the world around us with fresh eyes.
The Forest And The City
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Author : Cecil C. Konijnendijk
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-03-12
The Forest And The City written by Cecil C. Konijnendijk and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-12 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Amsterdamse Bos, Bois de Boulognes, Epping Forest, Hong Kong’s country parks, Stanley Park: throughout history cities across the world have developed close relationships with nearby woodland areas. In some cases, cities have even developed – and in some cases are promoting – a distinct ‘forest identity’. This book introduces the rich heritage of these city forests as cultural landscapes, and shows that cities and forests can be mutually beneficial. Essential reading for students and researchers interested in urban sustainability and urban forestry, this book also has much wider appeal. For with city forests playing an increasingly important role in local government sustainability programs, it provides an important reference for those involved in urban planning and decision making, public affairs and administration, and even public health. From providers of livelihoods to healthy recreational environments, and from places of inspiration and learning to a source of conflict, the book presents examples of city forests from around the world. These cases clearly illustrate how the social and cultural development of towns and forests has often gone hand in hand. They also reveal how better understanding of city forests as distinct cultural and social phenomena can help to strengthen synergies both between cities and forests, and between urban society and nature.
The Myth Of Progress
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Author : Tom Wessels
language : en
Publisher: UPNE
Release Date : 2013
The Myth Of Progress written by Tom Wessels and has been published by UPNE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Science categories.
A provocative critique of Western progress from a scientific perspective
Reading The Forested Landscape
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Author : Tom Wessels
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Reading The Forested Landscape written by Tom Wessels and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Nature categories.
Enhanced by etchings and illustrations by Brian Cohen, this ode to the landscape of central New England by ecologist Wessels (environmental biology, Antioch New England Graduate School) sees the forest for the trees by chronicling its evolution from the Ice Age to current challenges. Appends a prime
Two Trees Make A Forest
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Author : Jessica J. Lee
language : en
Publisher: Catapult
Release Date : 2020-08-04
Two Trees Make A Forest written by Jessica J. Lee and has been published by Catapult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-04 with Travel categories.
This "stunning journey through a country that is home to exhilarating natural wonders, and a scarring colonial past . . . makes breathtakingly clear the connection between nature and humanity, and offers a singular portrait of the complexities inherent to our ideas of identity, family, and love" (Refinery29). A chance discovery of letters written by her immigrant grandfather leads Jessica J. Lee to her ancestral homeland, Taiwan. There, she seeks his story while growing closer to the land he knew. Lee hikes mountains home to Formosan flamecrests, birds found nowhere else on earth, and swims in a lake of drowned cedars. She bikes flatlands where spoonbills alight by fish farms, and learns about a tree whose fruit can float in the ocean for years, awaiting landfall. Throughout, Lee unearths surprising parallels between the natural and human stories that have shaped her family and their beloved island. Joyously attentive to the natural world, Lee also turns a critical gaze upon colonialist explorers who mapped the land and named plants, relying on and often effacing the labor and knowledge of local communities. Two Trees Make a Forest is a genre–shattering book encompassing history, travel, nature, and memoir, an extraordinary narrative showing how geographical forces are interlaced with our family stories.
Misreading The African Landscape
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Author : James Fairhead
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1996-10-17
Misreading The African Landscape written by James Fairhead and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-10-17 with Nature categories.
An intriguing 1996 study showing how Africans enrich their land, while scientists believe they damage it.
Changes In The Land
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Author : William Cronon
language : en
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Release Date : 2011-04-01
Changes In The Land written by William Cronon and has been published by Hill and Wang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-01 with History categories.
The book that launched environmental history, William Cronon's Changes in the Land, now revised and updated. Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize In this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of capitalism had upon the ecosystems of New England. Reissued here with an updated afterword by the author and a new preface by the distinguished colonialist John Demos, Changes in the Land, provides a brilliant inter-disciplinary interpretation of how land and people influence one another. With its chilling closing line, "The people of plenty were a people of waste," Cronon's enduring and thought-provoking book is ethno-ecological history at its best.
Americans And Their Forests
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Author : Michael Williams
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1992-06-26
Americans And Their Forests written by Michael Williams and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-06-26 with History categories.
Dr Williams begins by exploring the role of the forest in American culture: the symbols, themes, and concepts - for example, pioneer woodsman, lumberjack, wilderness - generated by contact with the vast land of trees. He considers the Indian use of the forest, describing the ways in which native tribes altered it, primarily through fire, to promote a subsistence economy.