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Ecology Of Woodlands And Forests : Description, Dynamics And Diversity

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Peter A. Thomas and John R. Packham
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Book, Cambridge University Press, 2007
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Taking a functional rather than an ecosystem or a utilitarian approach, Thomas and Packham provide a concise account of the structure of woodlands and forests. Using examples from around the world - from polar treelines to savannahs to tropical rain forests - the authors explain the structure of the soil and the hidden world of the roots; (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Forest ecology · Case studies · Thomas, Peter, 1957- · Packham, John R
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(UPPER LEVEL) QH541.5.F6 T524 2007 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	QH541.5.F6 T524 2007	AVAILABLE

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Wars In The Woods : The Rise Of Ecological Forestry In America

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Samuel P. Hays
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Book, 1st ed, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007
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Hays also reveals the pervading influence of the wood products industry, and the training of U.S. Forest Service to value tree species marketable as wood products, as the primary forces behind forestry policy since the Forest Management Act of 1897. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Forest reserves · United States · Forest policy · Forest management · Forests and forestry · Political aspects · Forest ecology · Hays, Samuel P
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(UPPER LEVEL) SD565 .H39 2007 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	SD565 .H39 2007	AVAILABLE

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Forests Forever : Their Ecology, Restoration, And Protection

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by John J. Berger ; with a foreword by Charles E. Little
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Book, 1st ed, Center for American Places in association with Forests Forever Foundation San Francisco, 2007
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Fragile kingdoms of innumerable organisms and rich beauty, forests today are both our most plentiful and our most endangered natural resource. An expanded and revised version of Berger?s bestselling Understanding Forests, Forests Forever offers a clear and readable survey of forest history and management. A concise and wholly readable account, Forests Forever issues a call to arms for all those concerned with preserving and managing the world?s forests today. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Forests and forestry · United States · Forest ecology · Forest conservation · Forest restoration · Berger, John J., 1945-
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(UPPER LEVEL) SD143 .B46 2008 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	SD143 .B46 2008	AVAILABLE

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Ecology Of A Cracker Childhood

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Janisse Ray
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Book, 1st pbk. ed, Milkweed Editions, 1999
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Janisse Ray grew up in a junkyard along U.S. Highway 1, hidden from Florida-bound vacationers by the hedge at the edge of the road and by hulks of old cars and stacks of blown-out tires. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Ray, Janisse, · 1962- · Childhood and youth · Longleaf pine · Deforestation · Georgia · Forest ecology · Consumption (Economics) · Social aspects · Baxley (Ga.) · Biography · Ray, Janisse, 1962-
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(LOWER LEVEL) F294.B39 R39 1999 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	F294.B39 R39 1999	AVAILABLE

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Forests In Landscapes : Ecosystem Approaches To Sustainability

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Jeffrey Sayer and Stewart Maginnis ; assisted by Michelle Laurie
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Book, Earthscan, 2005
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- TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Recent innovations in Sustainable Forest Management and Ecosystem Approaches are resulting in forests increasingly being managed as part of the broader social-ecological systems in which they exist. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Forest management · Ecosystem management · Sustainable forestry · Forest ecology · Sayer, Jeffrey · Maginnis, Stewart · Laurie, Michelle
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(UPPER LEVEL) SD131 .S29 2005 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	SD131 .S29 2005	AVAILABLE

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Positive Impact Forestry : A Sustainable Approach To Managing Woodlands

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Thom J. McEvoy ; foreword by Senator James Jeffords
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Book, Island Press, 2004
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- TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Sustainable forestry · Forest management · Forest ecology · McEvoy, Thomas J. 1953-
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(UPPER LEVEL) SD387.S87 M389 2004 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	SD387.S87 M389 2004	AVAILABLE

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Forests In Time : The Environmental Consequences Of 1,000 Years Of Change In New England

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edited by David R. Foster and John D. Aber
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Book, Yale University Press, 2004
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- TABLE OF CONTENTS
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This important book relates the history of natural and human-induced changes that have occurred in the past one thousand years in New England and explores the modern ecology of this largely forested landscape. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Forest ecology · New England · History · Foster, David R., 1954- · Aber, John D
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(UPPER LEVEL) QH104.5.N4 F67 2004 DUE 03-21-10

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(UPPER LEVEL)	QH104.5.N4 F67 2004	DUE 03-21-10

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Strangely Like War : The Global Assault On Forests

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by Derrick Jensen and George Draffan
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Book, Chelsea Green Pub, 2003
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Today, with three quarters of the world?s original forests gone and the pace of cutting, clearing, processing, and pulping ever accelerating, Jensen and Draffan lay bare the stark scenario we face?we being not only people, but the nonhuman fabric of life itself?unless deforestation is slowed and stopped. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Deforestation · History · Environmental aspects · Clearcutting · Forest ecology · Jensen, Derrick, 1960- · Draffan, George, 1954-
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(UPPER LEVEL) SD418 .J46 2003 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	SD418 .J46 2003	AVAILABLE

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Burning Questions : America’s Fight With Nature’s Fire

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David Carle
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Book, Praeger, 2002
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Decades of fire suppression caused fuels to build up at alarming levels in our forests, culminating in the increasingly severe, uncontrollable fires of the late 20th century–the fires in Yellowstone, the Oakland Hills, and Los Alamos and the fires in summers of 2000 (the second worst fire season in the nation’s history) and 2001. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Forest fires · United States · Prevention and control · History · Prescribed burning · Forest ecology · Carle, David, 1950-
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(UPPER LEVEL) SD421.3 .C37 2002 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	SD421.3 .C37 2002	AVAILABLE

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The Impact Of Carbon Dioxide And Other Greenhouse Gases On Forest Ecosystems : Report No. 3 Of The IUFRO Task Force On Environmental Change

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edited by David F. Karnosky … [et al.]
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Book, CABI Pub., in association with the International Union of Forestry Research Organizations, (IUFRO), 2001
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Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases such as ozone, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide and chlorofluorocarbons, are all increasing in the atmosphere. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Forest plants · Effect of atmospheric carbon dioxide on · Effect of greenhouse gases on · Trees · Atmospheric carbon dioxide · Environmental aspects · Greenhouse gases · Forest ecology · Karnosky, David, 1949- · IUFRO Task Force on Environmental Change
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(UPPER LEVEL) QK753.C3 I48 2001 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	QK753.C3 I48 2001	AVAILABLE

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Ecosystem Dynamics Of The Boreal Forest : The Kluane Project

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edited by Charles J. Krebs, Stan Boutin, Rudy Boonstra
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Book, Oxford University Press, 2001
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The boreal forest is one of the world’s great ecosystems, stretching across North America and Eurasia in an unbroken band and containing about 25% of the world’s closed canopy forests. The Kluane Boreal Forest Ecosystem Project was a 10-year study by nine of Canada’s leading ecologists to unravel the impact of the snowshoe hare cycle on the plants and the other vertebrate species in the boreal forest. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Forest ecology · Yukon Territory · Kluane National Park · Kluane National Park and Reserve (Yukon) · Krebs, Charles J · Boutin, Stan A., 1955- · Boonstra, Rudy
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(UPPER LEVEL) QH106.2.Y84 E36 2001 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	QH106.2.Y84 E36 2001	AVAILABLE

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Forests And Landscapes : Linking Ecology, Sustainablility, And Aesthetics

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edited by S.R.J. Sheppard and H.W. Harshaw
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Book, CABI Pub, 2001
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Forests are an important component in the visual appeal of landscapes. Increasingly, forest resource managers must consider the aesthetic consequences of timber harvesting operations and management plans. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Sustainable forestry · Forest ecology · Forest landscape management · Sheppard, S. R. J. 1952- · Harshaw, H. W · International Union of Forestry Research Organizations
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(UPPER LEVEL) SD387.S87 F69 2001 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	SD387.S87 F69 2001	AVAILABLE

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Shady Practices : Agroforestry And Gender Politics In The Gambia

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Richard A. Schroeder
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Book, University of California Press, 1999
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In less than a decade, the women’s incomes began outstripping their husbands’ in many areas, until a shift in development policy away from gender equity and toward environmental concerns threatened to do away with the social and economic gains of the garden boom. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Mandingo (African people) · Agriculture · Social conditions · Women, Mandingo · Economic conditions · Division of labor · Gambia · Alkalikunda · Patriarchy · Agroforestry · Sex role · Political aspects · Forest ecology · Alkalikunda (Gambia) · Social life and customs · Schroeder, Richard A
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(LOWER LEVEL) DT509.45.M34 S37 1999 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	DT509.45.M34 S37 1999	AVAILABLE

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Forest Habitats

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Video, 100% Educational Videos, 1999
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Habitat (Ecology) · Study and teaching · K-12 elementary · Forest ecology · LAMSON LIBRARY VIDEO RECORDINGS · Olson, Karen · 100% Educational Videos
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K-12 CURRICULUM (LOWER) Je.52 On53f 1999 AVAILABLE

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K-12 CURRICULUM (LOWER)	Je.52 On53f 1999	AVAILABLE

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America’s Ancient Forests : From The Ice Age To The Age Of Discovery

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Thomas M. Bonnicksen
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Book, John Wiley, 2000
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At the time of European discovery, the ancient North American forests stretched across nearly half the continent. America’s Ancient Forests: From the Ice Age to the Age of Discovery provides scientists and professionals with essential information for forest restoration and conservation projects, while presenting a compelling and far-reaching account of how the North American landscape has evolved over the past 18,000 years. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Forest ecology · United States · Old growth forests · History · Bonnicksen, Thomas M
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(UPPER LEVEL) QH104 .B635 2000 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	QH104 .B635 2000	AVAILABLE

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