Author: Richard M. DeGraaf
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9780874519570
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 502

Get Book Here

Book Description
The only comprehensive guide to the natural histories and habitats of all inland New England species

Author: Kenn Kaufman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 061845697X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 419

Get Book Here

Book Description
Presents an illustrated field guide to the plants, wildlife, night sky, and natural environments of New England.

Author: Howard M. Weiss
Publisher: Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, Connecticut Geological & Natural History Survey
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: William Cronon
Publisher: Hill and Wang
ISBN: 142992828X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Get Book Here

Book Description
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.

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 590

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: John O. Whitaker
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501744917
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 623

Get Book Here

Book Description
"The authors have done a superb job of distilling a vast amount of information on the biology of the terrestrial mammals of the eastern United States in a style that will not only satisfy the expert's need for accurate data but will also appeal to students and others interested in natural history." —James N. Layne, Archbold Biological Station In their definitive work on eastern mammals, John O. Whitaker, Jr., and W. J. Hamilton, Jr., vividly convey their sheer delight at the variety and abundance of mammalian life. They have brought together a wealth of biological information and applied a biological subspecies concept to the mammals of the eastern United States. Their research extends "from the high reaches of Mount Katahdin in northern Maine, where water shrews and moose hold company," to the unglaciated hills of southern Indiana, where pygmy shrews (each weighing less than a dime) lived undetected until 1981. From there, they reach to "the cypress swamps of lower Florida, where the spoor of the mountain lion may be seen."*Describes the animals, their behavior, and dispersion in all 27 states east of the Mississippi River.*Almost entirely rewritten, this edition provides an abundance of scientific information in combination with anecdotes, field notes, and an underlying reverence for the fragile diversity of animal life. *Illustrations include 110 range maps, 167 black-and-white photographs, and 92 color images.*Covers 121 species, 17 more than in the previous edition. *Uses a biological subspecies concept, showing the results of evolution through differentiation. *Provides keys to orders and genera, anatomical line drawings. *Summarizes information on endangered and threatened species for each of the eastern states. *Lists state mammal books in the literature section.

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 494

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Joel Asaph Allen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mammals
Languages : en
Pages : 116

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Gerrit Smith Miller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mammals
Languages : en
Pages : 490

Get Book Here

Book Description
The object of this bulletin is twofold: To call attention to the richness of the United States National Museum North American land mammals, and to furnish a summary of the systematic results of the study in this field to the end of the year 1911. North America is understood as the entire continent from Panama northward, together with Greenland and the Greater and Lesser Antilles. In no other museum is the mammal fauna of so large an area so fully represented

Author: Outram Bangs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mammals
Languages : en
Pages : 88

Get Book Here

Book Description