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Falcons by Richard Sale
epub |eng | 2016-06-26 | Author:Richard Sale

FIG 188. Typical Hobby habitat for the hunting of chafers and dragonflies. The photograph was taken at Shapwick Heath, Somerset. The Hobby’s enthusiasm for hunting Barn Swallows, House Martins and ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology August 1,2016 )
Braving It by Campbell James
epub |eng | 2016-05-09 | Author:Campbell, James

I woke in the middle of the night, turned on my headlamp, and pointed it at my watch: 2:00 a.m. The fire was out and the tent was cold and ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics August 1,2016 )
The Wonder of It All by Yosemite Conservancy
epub |eng | 2016-02-13 | Author:Yosemite Conservancy

Great Smoky Mountains National Park A Good Old-Fashioned Mountain Rescue Jane Marie Allen Farmer In the 1980s, cell phones were nonexistent, which meant rescue could be a long way off. ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists July 24,2016 )
The Man Who Built the Sierra Club by Robert Wyss
epub |eng | 2016-06-06 | Author:Robert Wyss

14. Diablo and Galápagos Taking risks has been my trouble in the environmental movement. Because I am a climber, I am aware that there’s a certain amount of danger in ...
( Category: Environmental Policy July 24,2016 )
On Trails by Robert Moor
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Moor

* * * I. “Champion,” also called “champaign,” is an antiquated term for open, level country. It has the same root as “campus.” II. When the Cherokees were forced to ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays July 19,2016 )
Tears of the Cheetah by Stephen J. O'Brien
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Stephen J. O'Brien

Ten The Way We Were Nothing in biology makes sense except in light of evolution. —THEODOSIUS DOBZHANSKY The Old Testament, as interpreted by the esteemed seventeenth-century archbishop James Ussher, tells ...
( Category: Zoology July 19,2016 )
Raising Pigs by Kim Pezza
epub |eng | 2016-06-20 | Author:Kim Pezza [Pezza, Kim]

Feeding Boars When providing nutrition to your boar, you are looking to control their weight and body condition while still keeping optimal breeding performance. It is commonplace to feed your ...
( Category: Animal Husbandry July 19,2016 )
Tipping Point for Planet Earth by Anthony D. Barnosky
epub |eng | | Author:Anthony D. Barnosky

7 TOXINS Tony in Fes, Morocco, March 1996 I couldn’t quite figure out which of my senses was being most assailed. I was in the Fes el Bali medina, one ...
( Category: Human Geography July 17,2016 )
Field Guide to the Neighborhood Birds of New York City by Leslie Day
epub |eng | 2015-07-10 | Author:Leslie Day

VIREOS THERE ARE 50 SPECIES of vireo, all native to the new world: North and South America. They are small, with short, thick bills, slightly hooked at the tip, which ...
( Category: Wildlife July 11,2016 )
Extinction: A Radical History by Ashley Dawson
epub |eng | 2014-10-22 | Author:Ashley Dawson

Rewilding also promises to rework environmental space. Looking forward to the calamitous impact of climate change, biologists have proposed radical new doctrines with the ominous-sounding names assisted colonization and ecological ...
( Category: Conservation July 10,2016 )
Growing the Midwest Garden by Edward Lyon
epub |eng | 2015-07-09 | Author:Edward Lyon

Calamintha nepeta subsp. nepeta Calamint FORM: Perennial HARDINESS: Zones 5–7 BLOOM PERIOD: Summer, fall SIZE: 1–1.5 ft. × 1–2 ft. Calamintha nepeta subsp. nepeta. Tough. Massively florific for a long ...
( Category: Midwest July 10,2016 )
Permaculture by Jan Martin Bang
epub |eng | | Author:Jan Martin Bang

Rough stones require great skill to build with. Easily shaped soft stone like this from Iceland can be cut to fit together. Earth Earth has been used in building for ...
( Category: Natural Resources July 10,2016 )
Brilliance and Fire by Rachelle Bergstein
epub |eng | 2016-04-15 | Author:Rachelle Bergstein

11 The Inventors HOW TO MAKE A DIAMOND (AND PROVOKE DE BEERS) Paris, New York, and Washington, DC Unfortunately for diamond industry executives, young, antiestablishment Americans weren’t the only threat ...
( Category: Fashion Design July 9,2016 )
Retreat from a Rising Sea by Orrin H. Pilkey
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-05-23 | Author:Orrin H. Pilkey

Recently the Army Corps of Engineers declared that Fire Island, New York, had been “damaged” by Hurricane Sandy, a clear misunderstanding of barrier-island evolution processes. Some islands are narrow and ...
( Category: Environmental Policy July 8,2016 )
Midwest Foraging by Lisa M. Rose
epub |eng | 2015-07-03 | Author:Lisa M. Rose

Future Harvests Kousa is a common landscape tree, and gathering its fruit in the fall will do little to affect future harvests. It tolerates the growing conditions of the Midwest ...
( Category: Plants July 4,2016 )

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