Beyond Tongass Timber
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Page : 38 pages
File Size : 43,98 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Alaska, Southeast
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Page : 38 pages
File Size : 43,98 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Alaska, Southeast
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment
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Page : 692 pages
File Size : 21,93 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Forest conservation
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources
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Page : 280 pages
File Size : 33,28 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Law
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Page : 126 pages
File Size : 34,47 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Ecosystem management
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Water, Power, and Offshore Energy Resources
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Page : 644 pages
File Size : 37,94 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Forest reserves
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Author : Martin A. Nie
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Page : 392 pages
File Size : 41,27 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Law
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Examines the conflict surrounding public land management, revealing how problematic language in public land laws, scarcity of resources, and mistrust cloud the debates, and offering a range of solutions to help move beyond the dysfunctional status quo management.
Author : Dominick A. DellaSala
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 14,50 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1597266760
Temperate rainforests are biogeographically unique. Compared to their tropical counterparts, temperate rainforests are rarer and are found disproportionately along coastlines. Because most temperate rainforests are marked by the intersection of marine, terrestrial, and freshwater systems, these rich ecotones are among the most productive regions on Earth. Globally, temperate rainforests store vast amounts of carbon, provide habitat for scores of rare and endemic species with ancient affinities, and sustain complex food-web dynamics. In spite of their global significance, however, protection levels for these ecosystems are far too low to sustain temperate rainforests under a rapidly changing global climate and ever expanding human footprint. Therefore, a global synthesis is needed to provide the latest ecological science and call attention to the conservation needs of temperate and boreal rainforests. A concerted effort to internationalize the plight of the world’s temperate and boreal rainforests is underway around the globe; this book offers an essential (and heretofore missing) tool for that effort. DellaSala and his contributors tell a compelling story of the importance of temperate and boreal rainforests that includes some surprises (e.g., South Africa, Iran, Turkey, Japan, Russia). This volume provides a comprehensive reference from which to build a collective vision of their future.
Author : Daniel Nelson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 20,44 MB
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136524231
Alaska in the early 1950s was one of the world's last great undeveloped areas. Yet sweeping changes were underway. In l958 Congress awarded the new state over 100 million acres to promote economic development. In 1971, it gave Native groups more than 40 million acres to settle land claims and facilitate the building of an 800-mile oil pipeline. Spurred by the newly militant environmental movement, it also began to consider the preservation of Alaska's magnificent scenery and wildlife. Northern Landscapes is an essential guide to Alaska's recent past and to contemporary local and national debates over the future of public lands and resources. It is the first comprehensive examination of the campaign to preserve wild Alaska through the creation of a vast system of parks and wildlife refuges. Drawing on archival sources and interviews, Daniel Nelson traces disputes over resources alongside the politics of the Alaska statehood movement. He provides in-depth coverage of the growth of Alaskan environmental organizations, their partnerships with national groups, and their participation in political campaigns into the 1970s and after. Engagingly written, Northern Landscapes focuses on efforts to persuade public officials to recognize the value of Alaska's mountains, forests, and wildlife. That activity culminated in the passage of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) of 1980, which set aside more than 100 million acres, doubling the size of the national park and wildlife refuge systems, and tripling the size of the wilderness preservation system. Arguably the single greatest triumph of environmentalism, ANILCA also set the stage for continuing battles over the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and Alaska's national forests.
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Page : 224 pages
File Size : 20,35 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Environmental impact statements
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This describes a strategy for conserving National Forest System inventoried roadless areas and their important values. It has an analysis of management options and the Forest Service's preferred alternative.
Author : United States. Forest Service
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Page : 222 pages
File Size : 35,52 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Environmental impact statements
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