This vital book is packed full of information about butterflies. Detailed text about every butterfly variety is accompanid by data covering size, location, plant habitat and conservation status. Beautiful, full colour illustrations and photographs accompany each entry. 2004.
The scale of the struggle to halt climate change and save our world is perhaps greater than any challenge humanity has ever faced before. And the threat, if we fail, is nothing less than catastrophe- the extinction of species, the flooding of many of the world's coastal communities and the entry of the earth into a completely new climate regime of which humans have no prior experience. The world has known about global warming since the late 1970's, yet precious little to date has been done in the political arena to halt it. Original. Used hardcover in like new condition. 2006.
People from around the world have visited the foothills near Hinton in northwestern Alberta to absorb the land ethic of the company that took on stewardship of this area's publicly owned forests in 1954. Learning from the forest is part history of the company now called (Wellwood of Canada Hinton Division), part forestry survey and part proposal for the future of silviculture-- the art and science of growing trees. From the outset, the managers of the Hinton Forest recognized the challenges of managing forests whose lifecycles are measured in centuries. Learning from the forest describes the evolution of the forward thinking necessary to successful forest management-from the 1950s ideal of ensuring a perpetual timber supply to today's goal of maintaining a forest that sustains multiple uses and values. In Hinton, this includes the extraction of other natural resources; recreation, including public parks, camping, hiking, skiing and canoeing and the protection of wildlife habitat and Aboriginal cultural sites. New softcover. 2003.
Orangutans are our closest relatives-sharing an astonishing 97% of our DNA. Intelligent, pucklish and unpredictable, they have been known to steal canoes for a joyride, apply stolen lipstick and nab researcher's notebooks and diligently work in them. This extraordinary book about Orangutans focuses primarily on their minds and is based on the ten years of reaserch that author and scientist Anne E. Russon. Original. New book, light markings on cover. 1999.
