2016 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting and Wildlife-Associated Recreation
2016 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting and Wildlife-Associated Recreation

Author: Fish and Wildlife Service (U.S.)

Publisher: Fish & Wildlife Service

Published: 2018-05-24

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9780160946059

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This report provides a detailed snapshot of our nation's passion for wildlife and nature. It serves as a road map to guide efforts to reach more Americans to provide them with opportunities to hunt, fish, and enjoy America's wildlife and wild places. Bird/wildlife watching, hunting, fishing are not just favorite pastimes, but they share revenues from sale of licenses and tags, as well as excise taxes paid by hunters, anglers, and shooters to continue to support vital wildlife and habitat conservation efforts in every state. The report outlines the details for compilation of information and surveys to different populations and provides highlights along with statistical information represented in tables from the data collected. Click these resources for more products relating to this topic: Animals & Wildlife resources collection Fisheries & Aquatic Life resources collection

Backcasts
Backcasts

Author: Samuel Snyder

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2016-07-11

Total Pages: 439

ISBN-13: 022636660X

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“Many of us probably would be better fishermen if we did not spend so much time watching and waiting for the world to become perfect.”-Norman Maclean Though Maclean writes of an age-old focus of all anglers—the day’s catch—he may as well be speaking to another, deeper accomplishment of the best fishermen and fisherwomen: the preservation of natural resources. Backcasts celebrates this centuries-old confluence of fly fishing and conservation. However religious, however patiently spiritual the tying and casting of the fly may be, no angler wishes to wade into rivers of industrial runoff or cast into waters devoid of fish or full of invasive species like the Asian carp. So it comes as no surprise that those who fish have long played an active, foundational role in the preservation, management, and restoration of the world’s coldwater fisheries. With sections covering the history of fly fishing; the sport’s global evolution, from the rivers of South Africa to Japan; the journeys of both native and nonnative trout; and the work of conservation organizations such as the Federation of Fly Fishers and Trout Unlimited, Backcasts casts wide. Highlighting the historical significance of outdoor recreation and sports to conservation in a collection important for fly anglers and scholars of fisheries ecology, conservation history, and environmental ethics, Backcasts explores both the problems anglers and their organizations face and how they might serve as models of conservation—in the individual trout streams, watersheds, and landscapes through which these waters flow.

Integrated Algebra on the Ti-73
Integrated Algebra on the Ti-73

Author: Kathleen Noftsier

Publisher: Trafford Publishing

Published: 2011-03-03

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 1426943288

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Integrated Algebra on the TI-73 presents a graphing calculator workbook with exercises designed to be completed with the TI-73 graphing calculator. Many can also be completed with the TI-83+/TI-84+ graphing calculator. Intended to serve as a guide for students preparing for the New York State Integrated Algebra Regents Exam, this textbook also gives alternate strategies for solving math problems that you already learned how to solve or calculate in integrated algebra class; provides extra practice on regents-type questions; demonstrates how to work around quirks in the programming of the calculator; teaches developing skills needed for the Geometry and Algebra 2/Trigonometry exams, as well as college calculus and statistics courses. Some of topics covered go beyond the scope of the Integrated Algebra exam in order to accommodate use as a text as a mathematics elective. These can be omitted if the workbook is used as a supplement to a course leading to the Integrated Algebra regents. Prepare for the exam, learn your graphing calculator more thoroughly, and improve your knowledge of integrated algebra with Integrated Algebra on the TI-73.

Emergent Ecologies
Emergent Ecologies

Author: Eben Kirksey

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2015-11-27

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 0822374803

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In an era of global warming, natural disasters, endangered species, and devastating pollution, contemporary writing on the environment largely focuses on doomsday scenarios. Eben Kirksey suggests we reject such apocalyptic thinking and instead find possibilities in the wreckage of ongoing disasters, as symbiotic associations of opportunistic plants, animals, and microbes are flourishing in unexpected places. Emergent Ecologies uses artwork and contemporary philosophy to illustrate hopeful opportunities and reframe key problems in conservation biology such as invasive species, extinction, environmental management, and reforestation. Following the flight of capital and nomadic forms of life—through fragmented landscapes of Panama, Costa Rica, and the United States—Kirksey explores how chance encounters, historical accidents, and parasitic invasions have shaped present and future multispecies communities. New generations of thinkers and tinkerers are learning how to care for emergent ecological assemblages—involving frogs, fungal pathogens, ants, monkeys, people, and plants—by seeding them, nurturing them, protecting them, and ultimately letting go.

Feather Trails
Feather Trails

Author: Sophie A. H. Osborn

Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing

Published: 2024-05-02

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 1645022420

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"[This book] deserves to be read widely, because it is only in coming to understand these animals, suggests Osborn, that we can choose to love and help them."—New Scientist The story of one woman’s remarkable work with a trio of charismatic, endangered bird species—and her discoveries about the devastating threats that imperil them. In Feather Trails, wildlife biologist and birder Sophie A. H. Osborn reveals how the harmful environmental choices we’ve made—including pesticide use, the introduction of invasive species, lead poisoning, and habitat destruction—have decimated Peregrine Falcons, Hawaiian Crows, and California Condors. In the Rocky Mountains, the cloud forests of Hawai’i, and the Grand Canyon, Sophie and her colleagues work day-to-day to try to reintroduce these birds to the wild, even when it seems that the odds are steeply stacked against their survival. With humor and suspense, Feather Trails introduces us to the fascinating behaviors and unique personalities of Sophie’s avian charges and shows that what endangers them ultimately threatens all life on our planet. More than a deeply researched environmental investigation, Feather Trails is also a personal journey and human story, in which Sophie overcomes her own obstacles—among them heat exhaustion, poachers, rattlesnakes, and chauvinism. Ultimately, Feather Trails is an inspiring, poignant narrative about endangered birds and how our choices can help to ensure a future not only for the rarest species, but for us too. "An intimate look at the wonder and effort needed for working with endangered species in the wild. [Osborn's] matter-of-fact writing style and wry humor make the reader part of the action."—Booklist (starred review)