California's Wild Heritage

California's Wild Heritage

Author: Peter Steinhart

Publisher: Random House (NY)

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13:

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This handbook blends outstanding photographs and informative essays to survey some 100 endangered species in California--mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, insects, molluscs, crustaceans, and fish--which volunteer environmental groups and government agencies are trying to save.


Let's Go California 10th Edition

Let's Go California 10th Edition

Author: Let's Go Inc.

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2004-12-13

Total Pages: 624

ISBN-13: 9780312335441

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Completely revised and updated, Let's Go: California is your insider's guide to the Golden State. Let's Go's forty-five years of travel savvy deliver the practical facts you'll need, from navigating L.A.'s freeways to finding the hottest nightlife. Expanded coverage of national parks, beaches, hiking, and skiing get you out of the city, while listings in the alternatives to tourism chapter show you how to make a difference or become a movie star. Whether you'd rather trek Yosemite's backcountry trails or sample California cuisine in Berkeley's gourmet ghetto, Let's Go can lead the way.


Conservation Geography

Conservation Geography

Author: Charles L. Convis

Publisher: ESRI, Inc.

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9781589480247

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Showing how GIS and geography provide a framework for ecology and conservation efforts, this book describes how new technological tools for that kind of analysis, chief among them GIS, are being used to revolutionize the work of conservation.


Conservation Directory 2017

Conservation Directory 2017

Author: Lindsey Breuer

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2016-09-06

Total Pages: 1695

ISBN-13: 1631440519

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Do you want to take action to protect Earth’s environment? Are you interested in learning more about wildlife conservation and environmental groups? The Conservation Directory 2017 is a great resource for budding environmental activists and scholars alike who want to achieve a peaceful, equitable, and sustainable future. This all-inclusive volume is an amazing resource that can help further these environmental goals. The new and revised 2017 edition of the Conservation Directory is the most comprehensive listing of conservation and environmental organizations yet published, with information on more than four thousand government agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and colleges and universities, as well as more than eighteen thousand officials concerned with environmental conservation, education, and natural resource use and management. Each entry contains detailed contact information, including names, addresses, and telephone numbers. Also included are selected email and Internet addresses, descriptions of program areas, senior staff by name and responsibility, principal publications, and more. Entries are categorized by organization and state or country and are indexed alphabetically and by subject on topics ranging from acid rain to zoology. Each person listed in the directory is also indexed alphabetically.


Explorer's Guide Yosemite & the Southern Sierra Nevada: Includes Mammoth Lakes, Sequoia, Kings Canyon & Death Valley: A Great Destination (Second Edition)

Explorer's Guide Yosemite & the Southern Sierra Nevada: Includes Mammoth Lakes, Sequoia, Kings Canyon & Death Valley: A Great Destination (Second Edition)

Author: David T. Page

Publisher: The Countryman Press

Published: 2011-06-06

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 1581578806

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Awarded the 2009 Bronze Medal in the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation's annual Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition: "Whether you want to stand on a glacier or have a beer with local bikers, this is the definitive (as well as wonderfully eccentric) guide to the immensity of the southern Sierra and Owens Valley. John Muir would be pleased."—Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz and Ecology of Fear The only complete guide to California’s southern Sierra Nevada—some of the most stunning wilderness in North America—is better than ever in this revised, updated edition. Detailed reviews of lodging, dining, and recreation, plus outfitters, campsites, trails, and points of historic and cultural interest.


Conservation Directory 2015

Conservation Directory 2015

Author: Arlander C. Brown

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2015-03-03

Total Pages: 1834

ISBN-13: 1631440144

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The authority on natural resource use and management agencies around the world. Do you want to take action to protect Earth’s environment? Are you interested in learning more about wildlife conservation and environmental groups? The Conservation Directory 2015 is a great resource for budding environmental activists and scholars alike who want to achieve a peaceful, equitable, and sustainable future. This all-inclusive volume is an amazing resource that can help further these environmental goals. The new and revised 2015 edition of the Conservation Directory is the most comprehensive listing of conservation and environmental organizations yet published, with information on more than four thousand government agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and colleges and universities, as well as more than eighteen thousand officials concerned with environmental conservation, education, and natural resource use and management. Each entry contains detailed contact information, including names, addresses, and telephone numbers. Also included are selected email and Internet addresses, descriptions of program areas, senior staff by name and responsibility, principal publications, and more. Entries are categorized by organization and state or country and are indexed alphabetically and by subject on topics ranging from acid rain to zoology. Each person listed in the directory is also indexed alphabetically.


A Compendium of Tuleyome Tales, Volume 2

A Compendium of Tuleyome Tales, Volume 2

Author: Compiled by Mary K. Hanson for Tuleyome

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 132920364X

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At Tuleyome, we believe that everyone deserves access to the outdoors. Our nationally award winning program, Home Place Adventures, encourages people of all ages to become more connected to and involved with the natural world that surrounds us. Our goal is to educate and empower our community to care for and help protect the land and resources that we enjoy and on which we depend. Part of the Home Place Adventures programs includes our "Tuleyome Tales", feature articles written primarily by staff that are published in regional newspapers. This book embodies the tales written between January 2011 and June of 2016. Other tales can be found in Volume 1. They have been published online and in local newspapers such as The Daily Democrat, The Davis Enterprise, Lake County News, The Napa Valley Register, The West Sacramento News Ledger, Red Bluff News, the Winters Express and others. The book was compiled by Mary K. Hanson, a Certified California Naturalist.


Explorer's Guide Yosemite & the Southern Sierra Nevada

Explorer's Guide Yosemite & the Southern Sierra Nevada

Author: David T. Page

Publisher: The Countryman Press

Published: 2011-06-06

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 1581571402

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Awarded the 2009 Bronze Medal in the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation's annual Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition: "Whether you want to stand on a glacier or have a beer with local bikers, this is the definitive (as well as wonderfully eccentric) guide to the immensity of the southern Sierra and Owens Valley. John Muir would be pleased."—Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz and Ecology of Fear The only complete guide to California’s southern Sierra Nevada—some of the most stunning wilderness in North America—is better than ever in this revised, updated edition. Detailed reviews of lodging, dining, and recreation, plus outfitters, campsites, trails, and points of historic and cultural interest.