Pond and Brook
Author: Michael J. Caduto
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780874515091
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduces readers to the intriguing world of freshwater life.
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Author: Michael J. Caduto
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780874515091
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduces readers to the intriguing world of freshwater life.
Author: Michael J. Caduto
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780136851080
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the interrelatedness of the plants and animals in freshwater habitats and offers tips on observing freshwater wildlife
Author: Jim Arnosky
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSlick salamanders, speedy catfish, curious crayfish, and other creatures are featured in an illustrated introduction to freshwater brooks and streams.
Author: Jill Sinclair
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2009-02-13
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 0262195917
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe history of Fresh Pond Reservation—onetime summer retreat for wealthy Bostonians, center of the nineteenth-century ice industry, and stomping grounds for Harvard students—told through photographs, maps and plans, and stories. Fresh Pond Reservation, at the northwest edge of Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been described as a “landscape loved to death.” Certainly it is a landscape that has been changed by its various uses over the years and one to which Cantabridgeans and Bostonians have felt an intense attachment. Henry James returned to it in his sixties, looking for “some echo of the dreams of youth,” feeling keenly “the pleasure of memory”; a Harvard student of the 1850s fondly remembered skating parties and the chance of “flirtation with some fair-ankled beauty of breezy Boston”; modern residents argue fiercely over dogs being allowed to run free at the reservation and whether soccer or nature is a more valuable experience for Cambridge schoolchildren. In Fresh Pond, Jill Sinclair tells the story of the pond and its surrounding land through photographs, drawings, maps, plans, and an engaging narrative of the pond's geological, historical, and political ecology. Fresh Pond has been a Native American hunting and fishing ground; the site of an eighteenth-century hotel offering bowling, food and wine, and impromptu performances by Harvard men; a summer retreat for wealthy Bostonians; a training ground for trench warfare; a location for picnics and festivals for workers and sporting activities for all. The parkland features an Olmsted design, albeit an imperfectly realized one. The pond itself—a natural lake carved out by the retreating Ice Age about 15,000 years ago—was a center of the nineteenth-century ice industry (disparaged by Thoreau, writing about another pond), and still supplies the city of Cambridge with fresh drinking water. Sinclair's celebration of a local landscape also alerts us to broader issues—shifts in public attitudes toward nature (is it brutal wilderness or in need of protection?) and water (precious commodity or limitless flow?)—that resonate as we remake our relationship to the landscape.
Author: Brian Moss
Publisher: Naturalists' Handbooks
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781784271350
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPonds and small lakes support an extremely rich biodiversity of fascinating organisms. Many people have tried pond-dipping and encountered a few unfamiliar creatures, such as dragonfly nymphs and caddisfly larvae. However, there is a far richer world of microscopic organisms, such as diatoms, desmids and rotifers, which is revealed in this book. Anyone with access to a microscope can open up this hidden dimension. Identification keys are provided so that readers can identify, explore and study this microscopic world. There are also many suggestions of ways in which readers can then make original contributions to our knowledge and understanding of pond ecology. The book not only explores the fascinating world of the creatures within ponds and their interactions, but also explains the many ways in which ponds are important in human affairs. Ponds are being lost around the world, but they are a key part of a system that maintains our climate. In the face of climate change, it has never been more important to understand the ecology of ponds. Includes keys to: A - Traditional key to kingdoms of organisms; B - Contemporary key to kingdoms of organisms; C - Pragmatic key to groups of microorganisms; D - Algae visible, at least en masse, to the naked eye; E - Periphyton, both attached to surfaces and free living; F - Protozoa; G- Freshwater invertebrates and; H - Common phytoplankton genera in ponds.
Author: Bob Mallard
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2019-07-26
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 0811766144
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBrook trout are native in the Eastern United States and were the most important fly rod gamefish for early anglers, until they were supplanted by nonnative brown and rainbow trout. Today, brook trout are indicators of cold, clean water and healthy ecosystems, and in almost every place they are found, anglers will also find wild country and relative solitude. They have been introduced throughout the Rocky Mountains, where they grow large and abundant. This is the most complete guide to brook trout ever written and not only includes information on tackle and techniques but important conservation information and an in-depth section on top brook trout destinations, from Maine to Argentina. With a foreword by Ted Williams.
Author: Ed Wargin
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIf you're a fan of the classic Anatomy of a Murder, then you already know about Robert Traver, the author. But what about John Voelker, the man? They're one in the same. Attempting to escape his literary trappings as an author, Voelker sought refuge in fly fishing and writing about his treasured pastime up north in Michigan. His friend Charles Kuralt called him the closest thing to a great man (he) ever met. Explore this special Michigan pictorial by photographer Ed Wargin and writer James McCullough.
Author: Myke Johnson
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2016-11-25
Total Pages: 181
ISBN-13: 1365566862
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this time of ecological crisis, all that is holy calls us into a more intimate partnership with the diverse and beautiful beings of this earth. In Finding Our Way Home, Myke Johnson reflects on her personal journey into such a partnership and offers a guide for others to begin this path. Lyrically expressed, it weaves together lessons from a chamomile flower, a small bird, a copper beech tree, a garden slug, and a forest fern, along with insights from Indigenous philosophy, environmental science, fractal geometry, childhood Catholic mysticism, the prophet Elijah, fairy tales, and permaculture design. This eco-spiritual journey also wrestles with the history of our society's destruction of the natural world, and its roots in the original theft of the land from Indigenous peoples. Exploring the spiritual dimensions of our brokenness, it offers tools to create healing. Finding Our Way Home is a ceremony to remember our essential unity with all of life.
Author: John Sinsimer
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2014-12-19
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781491753507
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHarry Bonner is the new mayor of Comptons Pond, a small suburban town where he goes about his days officiating weddings and attempting to solve post-election issues. But one evening after curiosity leads him to open a locked file cabinet in his office, Harry has no idea that what he finds inside will forever change the lives of the people in his community, his own family included. After a paper falls out of a binder inside the file cabinet, Harry soon discovers that it is a proposal to clean up toxic waste in his town, specifically at Smithfield Powder Works. With assistance from his wife, a seasoned environmental investigator, a borough attorney, and several environmental activists, Harry begins what quickly becomes a perilous investigation that he hopes will help build a case against a company with executives determined to do whatever it takes to cover up their illegal activities, even as more citizens in Comptons Pond become gravely ill. "The Brook" is the compelling story of a small town mayor and his crew of experts as they embark on a race against time to save their town and its people from the tragic effects of corporate greed.
Author: Louise Dickinson Rich
Publisher:
Published: 1975-04
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780892720163
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn her early thirties, Louise Dickinson Rich took to the woods of Maine with her husband. They found their livelihood and raised a family in the remote backcountry settlement of Middle Dam, in the Rangeley area. Louise made time after morning chores to write about their lives.