A Forest Environment

Stephen Law's dream task had him operating within the nation's most sensible environment--its forests. Raised on a farm in rural Maine, Stephen turned a civil engineer for the U. S. wooded area provider, and A woodland surroundings was once written from his reviews. He enjoyed the woods and the animals that lived there, hunted, fished and enjoyed to camp and discover.

The Bullhead Queen: A Year on Pioneer Lake

The Western method of nature has consistently operated below either religious and clinical perspectives. whereas Christianity decrees that people have dominion over nature, evolutionary biology teaches us that we're yet hugely tailored animals between a organic community of hundreds of thousands of different species. what's our right dating to wild animals-and what's our accountability to them?

On the Edge: Water, Immigration, and Politics in the Southwest

At the area grew out of an entire life spent dwelling and touring around the American Southwest, from San Antonio to la. Char Miller examines this borderland area via a native's eyes and contemplates its substantial conflicts. inner to some of the US states and Mexico's northern tier, there are struggles over water, debates over undocumented immigrants, the criminalizing of the border, and the region's evolution right into a no-man's land.

Tagebuch I (Thoreaus Tagebücher) (German Edition)

Henry D. Thoreaus Hauptwerk ist nicht »Walden« oder »Über den zivilen Ungehorsam«, sondern sein Tagebuch, das er als 20-jähriger begann und bis wenige Tage vor seinem Tod 1861 führte. Darin notierte er Beobachtungen, die zu den bedeutendsten Naturschilderungen der Weltliteratur zählen, aber auch Gedanken und Refl exionen, die ihn als ganz eigenständigen philosophischen Kopf erkennen lassen.