Author: Ben Goldfarb
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 160358739X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North America's lakes and rivers. Goldfarb shares the powerful story about one of the world's most influential species. He explains how North America was colonized, how our landscapes have changed over the centuries, and how beavers can help us fight drought, flooding, wildfire, extinction, and the ravages of climate change. -- adapted from jacket
Eager
Author: Ben Goldfarb
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 160358739X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North America's lakes and rivers. Goldfarb shares the powerful story about one of the world's most influential species. He explains how North America was colonized, how our landscapes have changed over the centuries, and how beavers can help us fight drought, flooding, wildfire, extinction, and the ravages of climate change. -- adapted from jacket
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 160358739X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North America's lakes and rivers. Goldfarb shares the powerful story about one of the world's most influential species. He explains how North America was colonized, how our landscapes have changed over the centuries, and how beavers can help us fight drought, flooding, wildfire, extinction, and the ravages of climate change. -- adapted from jacket
Beavers, Their Ways, and Other Sketches
Author: Joseph Henry Taylor
Publisher:
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Category : Beavers
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Beavers
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The Romance of the Beaver
Author: Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore
Publisher: Philadelphia : Lippincott
ISBN:
Category : American beaver
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher: Philadelphia : Lippincott
ISBN:
Category : American beaver
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Building Beavers
Author: Kathleen Martin-James
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 9780822536284
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Introduces the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of the North American beaver.
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 9780822536284
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Introduces the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of the North American beaver.
The Legend of the Beaver's Tail
Author: Stephanie Shaw
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
ISBN: 1633621359
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Long ago Beaver did not look like he does now. Yes, he had two very large front teeth, but his tail was not wide and flat. It was thick with silky fur. Vain Beaver is inordinately proud of his glorious tail. When he's not bragging about his tail, Beaver spends his time grooming it, while the other woodland creatures go about their business of finding food and shelter for their families. Eventually Beaver's boasting drives away his friends and he is left on his own. But when his tail is flattened in an accident (of his own making), Beaver learns to value its new shape and seeks to make amends with his friends. Based on an Ojibwe legend.
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
ISBN: 1633621359
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Long ago Beaver did not look like he does now. Yes, he had two very large front teeth, but his tail was not wide and flat. It was thick with silky fur. Vain Beaver is inordinately proud of his glorious tail. When he's not bragging about his tail, Beaver spends his time grooming it, while the other woodland creatures go about their business of finding food and shelter for their families. Eventually Beaver's boasting drives away his friends and he is left on his own. But when his tail is flattened in an accident (of his own making), Beaver learns to value its new shape and seeks to make amends with his friends. Based on an Ojibwe legend.
Bringing Back the Beaver
Author: Derek Gow
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 1603589961
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
"A bold new voice in nature writing, from the front lines of Britain's rewilding movement Bringing Back the Beaver is farmer-turned-ecologist Derek Gow's inspirational and often riotously funny firsthand account of how the movement to rewild the British landscape with beavers has become the single most dramatic and subversive nature conservation act of the modern era. Since the early 1990s - in the face of outright opposition from government, landowning elites and even some conservation professionals - Gow has imported, quarantined and assisted the reestablishment of beavers in waterways across England and Scotland. In addition to detailing the ups and downs of rewilding beavers, Bringing Back the Beaver makes a passionate case as to why the return of one of nature's great problem solvers will be critical as part of a sustainable fix for flooding and future drought, whilst ensuring the creation of essential lifescapes that enable the broadest possible spectrum of Britain's wildlife to thrive"--
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 1603589961
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
"A bold new voice in nature writing, from the front lines of Britain's rewilding movement Bringing Back the Beaver is farmer-turned-ecologist Derek Gow's inspirational and often riotously funny firsthand account of how the movement to rewild the British landscape with beavers has become the single most dramatic and subversive nature conservation act of the modern era. Since the early 1990s - in the face of outright opposition from government, landowning elites and even some conservation professionals - Gow has imported, quarantined and assisted the reestablishment of beavers in waterways across England and Scotland. In addition to detailing the ups and downs of rewilding beavers, Bringing Back the Beaver makes a passionate case as to why the return of one of nature's great problem solvers will be critical as part of a sustainable fix for flooding and future drought, whilst ensuring the creation of essential lifescapes that enable the broadest possible spectrum of Britain's wildlife to thrive"--
Beavers, Their Ways
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Animal Constructions and Technological Knowledge
Author: Ashley Shew
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 149854312X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
Animal studies literature, and its public consumption have sparked interest in questions about humanity. Most scholars aim these studies to help us sort out how we should regard other creatures and how we should understand ourselves in light of their capacities. This book offers something a little different, investigating the conceptual limits of tool-use and technology through the lens of technological knowledge. Making sense of animal studies can be tricky because of long-held and culturally pervasive beliefs and messages about human triumph over nature (where animals are considered to be part of nature). Animal Constructions and Technological Knowledge, considers animal tool use, techniques, and construction within the context of theories about what constitutes technology and what constitutes knowledge. With reference to an engaging variety of animal case studies, primarily from research on apes, dolphins, and crows, this book shows how concepts from philosophy of technology can be used to make better sense of the animal cases. These animal cases also help us to refine our philosophical concepts, creating more careful distinction and uniting different accounts of technological knowledge.
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 149854312X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
Animal studies literature, and its public consumption have sparked interest in questions about humanity. Most scholars aim these studies to help us sort out how we should regard other creatures and how we should understand ourselves in light of their capacities. This book offers something a little different, investigating the conceptual limits of tool-use and technology through the lens of technological knowledge. Making sense of animal studies can be tricky because of long-held and culturally pervasive beliefs and messages about human triumph over nature (where animals are considered to be part of nature). Animal Constructions and Technological Knowledge, considers animal tool use, techniques, and construction within the context of theories about what constitutes technology and what constitutes knowledge. With reference to an engaging variety of animal case studies, primarily from research on apes, dolphins, and crows, this book shows how concepts from philosophy of technology can be used to make better sense of the animal cases. These animal cases also help us to refine our philosophical concepts, creating more careful distinction and uniting different accounts of technological knowledge.
Beavers and Their Ways
Author: James Edmund Harting
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beavers
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beavers
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Welcome Home, Beaver
Author: Magnus Weightman
Publisher: Clavis
ISBN: 9781605373577
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
After leaving his home on an adventure, Beaver and Akita the dog travel around the world searching for Beaver's home.
Publisher: Clavis
ISBN: 9781605373577
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
After leaving his home on an adventure, Beaver and Akita the dog travel around the world searching for Beaver's home.