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Author: Samuel I. Zeveloff
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTo further understanding of the meanings and values of wilderness, this volume explores wilderness and its significance to humans from myriad viewpoints, based on a meeting of the North American Interdisciplinary Wilderness Conference.
Author: David Backes
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9781452903132
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jean Pierre Larochette
Publisher: Schiffer Craft
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780764359330
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJean Pierre Larochette is a renowned top-level artist, making this opportunity to learn from him a treasure for all levels of weavers.
Author: Mark Woods
Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: 2017-07-30
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 1460405714
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe concept and values of wilderness, along with the practice of wilderness preservation, have been under attack for the past several decades. In Rethinking Wilderness, Mark Woods responds to seven prominent anti-wilderness arguments. Woods offers a rethinking of the received concept of wilderness, developing a positive account of wilderness as a significant location for the other-than-human value-adding properties of naturalness, wildness, and freedom. Interdisciplinary in approach, the book combines environmental philosophy, environmental history, environmental social sciences, the science of ecology, and the science of conservation biology.
Author: Barrett Williams
Publisher: Barrett Williams
Published: 2024-11-05
Total Pages: 88
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscover the untamed beauty of the natural world and uncover your inner explorer with "Wilderness Journaling." This immersive eBook invites you to step away from the digital noise and into the serene embrace of the wilderness, where each chapter serves as a guide to forging a deeper connection with nature through journaling. Begin your journey with an introduction to the art of observation and the rich history of nature journals, setting the stage for a fulfilling wilderness adventure. Equip yourself with the right tools and intentions as you prepare for your journey into the wild. Experience the tranquility of mindful walking and find boundless inspiration in your surroundings. With expert guidance on documenting flora and fauna, learn to capture the beauty of wildflowers and the subtleties of wildlife behavior in your notes. Dive into the complexities of landscapes and weather patterns, richly describing terrains and atmospheric shifts. Reflect on your outdoor experiences, transforming simple observations into profound insights and personal growth. Explore diverse writing styles, from detailed narratives to expressive poetry, enriching your journaling repertoire. Discover the playful role of color and art, incorporating vibrant sketches and symbolic hues in your entries. Craft a thematic journal that tells a cohesive story, selecting excerpts to share with others through engaging storytelling techniques. Establish a consistent journaling routine, adaptable to the changing seasons, and embrace the challenges that weather and creativity may present. Delve into digital journaling options, weighing the benefits of traditional methods against modern technology. Through journaling, gain a deeper understanding of ecology and ignite your passion for conservation. As you come to the conclusion of your journey, feel inspired by the lifelong benefits of wilderness journaling and encouraged to continue exploring nature’s wonders. Embrace this adventure and unlock a more profound relationship with both the world around you and yourself.
Author: Paul S. Sutter
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2009-11-23
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 0295989904
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn its infancy, the movement to protect wilderness areas in the United States was motivated less by perceived threats from industrial and agricultural activities than by concern over the impacts of automobile owners seeking recreational opportunities in wild areas. Countless commercial and government purveyors vigorously promoted the mystique of travel to breathtakingly scenic places, and roads and highways were built to facilitate such travel. By the early 1930s, New Deal public works programs brought these trends to a startling crescendo. The dilemma faced by stewards of the nation's public lands was how to protect the wild qualities of those places while accommodating, and often encouraging, automobile-based tourism. By 1935, the founders of the Wilderness Society had become convinced of the impossibility of doing both. In Driven Wild, Paul Sutter traces the intellectual and cultural roots of the modern wilderness movement from about 1910 through the 1930s, with tightly drawn portraits of four Wilderness Society founders--Aldo Leopold, Robert Sterling Yard, Benton MacKaye, and Bob Marshall. Each man brought a different background and perspective to the advocacy for wilderness preservation, yet each was spurred by a fear of what growing numbers of automobiles, aggressive road building, and the meteoric increase in Americans turning to nature for their leisure would do to the country’s wild places. As Sutter discovered, the founders of the Wilderness Society were "driven wild"--pushed by a rapidly changing country to construct a new preservationist ideal. Sutter demonstrates that the birth of the movement to protect wilderness areas reflected a growing belief among an important group of conservationists that the modern forces of capitalism, industrialism, urbanism, and mass consumer culture were gradually eroding not just the ecology of North America, but crucial American values as well. For them, wilderness stood for something deeply sacred that was in danger of being lost, so that the movement to protect it was about saving not just wild nature, but ourselves as well.
Author: Michael P. Nelson
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 1488
ISBN-13: 0820331716
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTen years ago, The Great New Wilderness Debate began a cross-disciplinary conversation about the varied constructions of "wilderness" and the controversies that surround them. The Wilderness Debate Rages On will reinvigorate that conversation and usher in a second decade of debate. Like its predecessor, the book gathers both critiques and defenses of the idea of wilderness from a wide variety of perspectives and voices. The Wilderness Debate Rages On includes the best explorations of the concept of the concept of wilderness from the past decade, underappreciated essays from the early twentieth century that offer an alternative vision of the concept and importance of wilderness, and writings meant to clarify or help us rethink the concept of wilderness. Narrative writers such as Wendell Berry, Scott Russell Sanders, Marilynne Robinson, Kathleen Dean Moore, and Lynn Maria Laitala are also given a voice in order to show how the wilderness debate is expanding outside the academy. The writers represented in the anthology include ecologists, environmental philosophers, conservation biologists, cultural geographers, and environmental activists. The book begins with little-known papers by early twentieth-century ecologists advocating the preservation of natural areas for scientific study, not, as did Thoreau, Muir, and the early Leopold, for purposes of outdoor recreation. The editors argue that had these writers influenced the eventual development of federal wilderness policy, our national wilderness system would better serve contemporary conservation priorities for representative ecosystems and biodiversity.
Author: M. Kat Anderson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2005-06-14
Total Pages: 560
ISBN-13: 0520933109
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA complex look at California Native ecological practices as a model for environmental sustainability and conservation. John Muir was an early proponent of a view we still hold today—that much of California was pristine, untouched wilderness before the arrival of Europeans. But as this groundbreaking book demonstrates, what Muir was really seeing when he admired the grand vistas of Yosemite and the gold and purple flowers carpeting the Central Valley were the fertile gardens of the Sierra Miwok and Valley Yokuts Indians, modified and made productive by centuries of harvesting, tilling, sowing, pruning, and burning. Marvelously detailed and beautifully written, Tending the Wild is an unparalleled examination of Native American knowledge and uses of California's natural resources that reshapes our understanding of native cultures and shows how we might begin to use their knowledge in our own conservation efforts. M. Kat Anderson presents a wealth of information on native land management practices gleaned in part from interviews and correspondence with Native Americans who recall what their grandparents told them about how and when areas were burned, which plants were eaten and which were used for basketry, and how plants were tended. The complex picture that emerges from this and other historical source material dispels the hunter-gatherer stereotype long perpetuated in anthropological and historical literature. We come to see California's indigenous people as active agents of environmental change and stewardship. Tending the Wild persuasively argues that this traditional ecological knowledge is essential if we are to successfully meet the challenge of living sustainably.
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 52
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: USA Proud Publishing
Publisher: USA Proud Publishing
Published: 2024-09-14
Total Pages: 166
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