Desert Meadows
Author | : Eric Philippe Perramond |
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Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Cattle |
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Author | : Eric Philippe Perramond |
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Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Cattle |
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Author | : Soviet Union. Posolʹstvo (U.S.) |
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Total Pages | : 674 |
Release | : 1944 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
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Total Pages | : 678 |
Release | : 2009 |
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Author | : John Greenlee |
Publisher | : Timber Press |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2009-09-01 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 1604691328 |
If there's one lesson every homeowner must learn, it's this: The traditional lawn is a huge, time consuming, synthetic-chemical sucking mistake. The time has come to look for new ways to create friendly, livable spaces around our homes. In The American Meadow Garden, ornamental grass expert John Greenlee creates a new model for homeowners and gardeners. For Greenlee, a meadow isn't a random assortment of messy, anonymous grasses. Rather, it is a shimmering mini-ecosystem, in which regionally appropriate grasses combine with colorful perennials to form a rich tapestry that is friendly to all life — with minimal input of water, time, and other scarce resources. Kids and pets can play in complete safety, and birds and butterflies flock there. A prairie style planting is a place you want to be. With decades of experience as a nurseryman and designer, John Greenlee is the perfect guide. He details all the practicalities of site preparation, plant selection, and maintenance; particularly valuable are his explanations of how ornamental grasses perform in different climates and areas. Gorgeous photography by Saxon Holt visually illustrates the message with stunning examples of meadow gardens from across the country. We've reached a stage where we can no longer follow past practices unthinkingly, particularly when those practices are wasteful and harmful to the environment. It's time to get rid of the old-fashioned lawn and embrace a sane and healthy future: the American meadow garden.
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Total Pages | : 860 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Birds |
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Author | : Michael Glantz |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 1999-05-13 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1139429418 |
Environmental degradation in the Aral Sea basin has been a touchstone for increasing public awareness of environmental issues. The Aral crisis has been touted as a 'quiet Chernobyl' and as one of the worst human-made environmental catastrophes of the twentieth century. This multidisciplinary 1999 book comprehensively describes the slow onset of low grade but incremental changes (i.e. creeping environmental change) which affected the region and its peoples. Through a set of case studies, it describes how the region's decision-makers allowed these changes to grow into an environmental and societal nightmare. It outlines many lessons to be learned for other areas undergoing detrimental creeping environmental change, and provides an important example of how to approach such disasters for students and researchers of environmental studies, global change, political science and history.
Author | : John Greenlee |
Publisher | : Timber Press (OR) |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 0881928712 |
Offers guidance for designing, planting, and taking care of a meadow with information on plants, styles, and examples from all over the country.
Author | : Steven J. Phillips |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 676 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520219809 |
"A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert provides the most complete collection of Sonoran Desert natural history information ever compiled and is a perfect introduction to this biologically rich desert of North America."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 1992-02-01 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 030904684X |
This volume describes one of the most extensive grassland ecosystems and the efforts of Chinese scientists to understand it. Leading Chinese scientists attribute the decline in China's grasslands to overgrazing and excessive cultivation of marginal areas and discuss measures to limit the damage. The book gives its view on the Chinese approach to the study of grasslands and the relevance of this activity in China to global scientific concerns.
Author | : Ken Kramer |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2010-10-01 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1603443126 |
In ten impassioned essays, veteran Texas environmental advocates and conservation professionals step outside their roles as lawyers, lobbyists, administrators, consultants, and researchers to write about water. Their personal stories of what the springs, rivers, bottomlands, bayous, marshes, estuaries, bays, lakes, and reservoirs mean to them and to our state come alive in the landscape photography of Charles Kruvand. Allied with the Texas Living Waters Project (a joint education and policy initiative of the Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club, the National Wildlife Federation, and the Environmental Defense Fund, among others), editor Ken Kramer joins his fellow activists in a call to keep rivers flowing, to protect wildlife habitat, and to save tax dollars by using water efficiently and sustainability. INSIDE THIS BOOK:Introduction: the Living Waters of Texas—Ken KramerWhere the First Raindrop Falls—David K. LangfordSpringing to Life: Keeping the Waters Flowing—Dianne WassenichHooked on Rivers—Myron J. HessFalling in Love with Bottomlands: Waters and Forests of East Texas—Janice BezansonOn the Banks of the Bayous: Preserving Nature in an Urban Environment—Mary Ellen WhitworthA Taste of the Marsh—Susan Raleigh KaderkaBays and Estuaries of Texas: An Ephemeral Treasure?—Ben F. Vaughan IIIRio Grande: Fragile Lifeline in the Desert—Mary E. KellyLeaving a Water Legacy for Texas—Ann Thomas HamiltonTexas Water Politics: Forty Years of Going with the Flow—Ken Kramer