A Healthy Nature Handbook
A Healthy Nature Handbook

Author: Justin Pepper

Publisher: Island Press

Published: 2021-10-28

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 1642832421

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The Chicago metropolitan area is home to far more protected nature than most people realize. There's a critical factor of the Chicago Wilderness restoration effort that makes it unique. A grassroots volunteer community, thousands strong, works alongside agency staff to give nearby nature what it needs to thrive in an everchanging urban context. A Healthy Nature Handbook captures hard-earned ecological wisdom from this community in engaging and highly readable chapters, each including illustrated restoration sequences.

The Wildfire Reader
The Wildfire Reader

Author: George Wuerthner

Publisher:

Published: 2006-08-04

Total Pages: 454

ISBN-13:

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The Wildfire Reader presents, in an affordable paperback edition, the essays included in Wildfire, offering a concise overview of fire landscapes and the past century of forest policy that has affected them.

An Illustrated Guide to Pruning
An Illustrated Guide to Pruning

Author: Edward F. Gilman

Publisher: Cengage Learning

Published: 2011-08-08

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9781111307301

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Well written and easy to understand, An ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO PRUNING, Third Edition is filled with updated illustrations, photographs, and examples designed to help readers understand and implement the appropriate pruning practices that are vital to developing sustainable structure in the first 25 years of a tree's life. With coverage of numerous different tree species as well as information about the challenges associated with pruning such as disease prevention, root pruning, mature tree pruning, and restoration following storms, students will be prepared to identify and understand good tree structure and pruning practices. Filled with simple tables, lists, and strategies, this completely updated guide to pruning makes it easy to teach the presented pruning techniques in accordance with nationally recognized ANSI A-300 standards. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Wildfire
Wildfire

Author: George Wuerthner

Publisher: Foundations for Deep Ecology 3

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781597260701

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Wildfires are an awe-inspiring natural phenomenon that have shaped North America's landscapes. Containing over 150 photographs, this book covers the topic of wildfire from ecological, economic, and social/political perspectives. It also examines the policies and practices that affect them, such as fire suppression.

Ecosystem Management for Sustainability
Ecosystem Management for Sustainability

Author: John Peine

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 1998-06-23

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13: 9781574440539

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As the 21st century approaches, the need to put principles of sustainable living and ecosystem management into practice has never been so urgent. Ecosystem Management for Sustainability recognizes this need and shares the experiences of the editor and 54 contributing authors, each leaders in the advancement of ecosystem management and champions of the natural environment. The book uses the Man And Biosphere program as a case example of a wide variety of resource management activities at work. Through the multi-authored contributions to this book, documentation of a comprehensive spectrum of ecosystem management and sustainable development principles is achieved. Ecosystem Management for Sustainability provides a link between theory and practice of these two philosophies.

Restoring Tropical Forests
Restoring Tropical Forests

Author: Stephen D. Elliott

Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781842464427

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Restoring Tropical Forests is a user-friendly guide to restoring forests throughout the tropics. Based on the concepts, knowledge and innovative techniques developed at Chiang Mai University's Forest Restoration Research Unit, this book will enable improvements in existing forest restoration projects and provide a key resource for new ones. The book presents three aspects of the restoration of tropical forest ecosystems: the concepts of tropical forest dynamics and regeneration that are relevant to tropical forest restoration, proven restoration techniques and case studies of their successful application, and research methods to refine such techniques and adapt them to local ecological and socio-economic conditions.