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Category : Endangered plants
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Endangered and Threatened Vertebrate Animals and Vascular Plants of Illinois
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Category : Endangered plants
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Conservation in Highly Fragmented Landscapes
Author: Mark SchwartzPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1475706561
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Mark W. Schwartz Soon after we came into extensive meadows: and I was assured that those meadows continue for a hundred and fifty miles. being in winter drowned lands and marshes. By the dryness of the season they were now beautiful pastures, and here presented itself one of the most delightful prospects I have ever beheld; all low grounds being meadow, and without wood, and all of the high grounds being covered with trees and appearing like islands: the whole scene seemed an elysium. Capt. Thomas Morris. 1791 I am sitting in a 60-mile-an-hour bus sailing over a highway originally laid out for horse and buggy. The ribbon of concrete has been widened and widened until the field fences threaten to topple into the road cuts. In the narrow thread of sod between the shaved banks and the toppling fences grow the relics of what once was Illinois: the prairie.
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1124
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Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
Book Description
Shawnee National Park (N.F.), Natural Area Trails Project
Author: Kemper County ICGG Project
Author: Kaskaskia Navigation Project O&M
Author: From Coastal Wilderness to Fruited Plain
Author: Gordon G. WhitneyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521576581
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
From Coastal Wilderness to Fruited Plain is an account of the making of a large part of the American landscape following European settlement. Drawing upon land survey records and early travellers' accounts, Dr Whitney reconstructs the 'virgin' forests and grasslands of the north-eastern and central United States during the pre-settlement period. He then documents successively the clearance and fragmentation of the region's woodlands, the harvest of the forest and its game, the ploughing of the prairies, and the draining of wetlands. The degree to which these activities altered the soil, climate, plant and animal communities, and water cycle are evaluated, and the sustainability of present-day ecosystems is brought into question in this account.
Wildlife Review
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Category : Wildlife conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 1210
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