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The Black Rhinos of Namibia by Rick Bass
epub |eng | | Author:Rick Bass [Bass, Rick]

In the morning, the nifty little refrigerator is broken, doubtless the result of Andreas’s mad cannon-ride run down off the red mountain, so Dennis and I are forced to eat ...
( Category: Wildlife March 5,2016 )
Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life by George Monbiot
epub |eng | | Author:George Monbiot [Monbiot, George]

10 The Hushings . . . the smashed faces Of the farms with the stone trickle Of their tears down the hills’ side. R. S. Thomas Reservoirs Of all the ...
( Category: Environmental February 29,2016 )
Of Orcas and Men by David Neiwert
epub |eng | 2015-06-15 | Author:David Neiwert [NEIWERT, DAVID]

CHAPTER Seven Salmon, Boats, and Oil THE SUMMER OF 2013 WAS A PECULIAR YEAR—A WORRISOME YEAR—for whale watchers in the San Juan Islands, and it all came down to salmon, ...
( Category: Marine Life February 29,2016 )
On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson, Author of Silent Spring by William Souder
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-09-04 | Author:William Souder [Souder, William]

The “safety” of a pesticide is a relative question, as the toxicity of any substance depends on the dose and the route of exposure. Calling a compound an “insecticide” identifies ...
( Category: Environmental February 24,2016 )
Rainbow Dust by Peter Marren
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Marren

9. Fire and Brimstone Butterflies and the Imagination The earliest writers about our butterflies were concerned with a matter to which few today give any thought. They wanted to know ...
( Category: Butterflies February 15,2016 )
The Species Seekers by Richard Conniff
epub |eng | 2011-02-13 | Author:Richard Conniff

“An Animal of an Extraordinary Character” His moment came, oddly, after he had already sailed for home early in 1847, at the end of his years in Africa. The ship ...
( Category: Conservation February 14,2016 )
Nextinction by Ralph Steadman
epub |eng | 2015-02-01 | Author:Ralph Steadman

Giant Ibis Thaumatibis gigantea Another once-abundant bird, the Giant Ibis, of which there are only about 230 mature individuals remaining, is found in northern Cambodia, southern Laos, and there has ...
( Category: Birds February 2,2016 )
The Toxin-Free Home by Haynes Alison
epub |eng | 2014-12-31 | Author:Haynes, Alison

MOLD ATTACK Improving ventilation is the long-term solution, either by opening windows immediately after a steamy bath or shower, installing extractor fans, or fitting the room with wall vents so ...
( Category: Cleaning, Caretaking & Relocating December 30,2015 )
Fire Outside My Window by Sandra Millers Younger
epub |eng | 2013-09-02 | Author:Sandra Millers Younger

Retirees Bob and Barbara Daly had also been forced back by the flames. Awakened by the sound of the wind rearranging their patio furniture, Bob Daly had immediately roused his ...
( Category: State & Local November 21,2015 )
Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them by Mark Jerome Walters
epub |eng | 2012-09-11 | Author:Mark Jerome Walters

6. The year 1997 saw one of the most prolific acorn crops in the mid-Atlantic states in years. In Hutcheson Memorial Forest, Edmund Stiles recalled the abundance of acorns that ...
( Category: Infectious Disease November 3,2015 )
Spatial Analysis: A Guide For Ecologists by Mark R. T. Dale & Marie-Josée Fortin
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2014-08-30 | Author:Mark R. T. Dale & Marie-Josée Fortin [Dale, Mark R. T.]

8.4.7 Example of the use of non-spatial and spatial regressions To illustrate how non-spatial and spatial regressions behave when applied to spatially autocorrelated data, we investigated how the relationship we ...
( Category: Conservation November 3,2015 )
Tracks and Shadows by Harry W. Greene
epub |eng | | Author:Harry W. Greene

Philippine Negritos with freshly killed reticulated python, twenty-three feet long and twenty-six inches in circumference, at the headwaters of the Koso River in the Sierra Madre, Aurora Province, Luzon, June ...
( Category: Ichthyology October 25,2015 )
Wild Ones by Jon Mooallem
epub |eng | 2013-04-11 | Author:Jon Mooallem

PART THREE BIRDS 11. CONSTRUCTION WORKERS By the late 1940s, there were only about thirty whooping cranes left on Earth, and, for better or worse, America was about to level ...
( Category: Wildlife October 24,2015 )
Eating Aliens by Jackson Landers
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-08-20 | Author:Jackson Landers

I LEFT MISSOURI WITH A COOLER FULL OF CARP and my head teeming with thoughts about entire rivers with hundreds of tons of a highly edible fish per mile and ...
( Category: Hunting October 13,2015 )
Camp Granny by Sharon Lovejoy
epub |eng | 2015-09-22 | Author:Sharon Lovejoy [Lovejoy, Sharon]

Edible flowers add color, taste, and zing to your salads. Croutons: No Squares Allowed Tiny cookie cutters are perfect for making a child’s version of croutons. Use a dense day-old ...
( Category: Nature Crafts October 13,2015 )

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