Landscapes of Hennepin County
Author : Patrick N. Kennedy
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Page : 114 pages
File Size : 50,85 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Land use
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Author : Patrick N. Kennedy
Publisher :
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 50,85 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Land use
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Author : Dee Daniels-Hagedorn
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Page : 20 pages
File Size : 31,75 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Urban forestry
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Author : John Fraser Hart
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 31,25 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780873515917
Have you ever wondered why Minnesota's forests grow in the north and not in the West? Why gaming casinos are prospering? Why producers raise chickens instead of cows? Why some towns grow while others fail? Minnesota's natural wonders have had an effect on and been changed by the people who call this complex mosaic of lakes and forests, rivers and fields home. Through engaging, in-depth text and copious illustrations, John Fraser Hart and Susy Svatek Ziegler explore the human and environmental characteristics that define the state in Landscapes of Minnesota. Illustrated with hundreds of maps and color photographs that reveal the changing character of Minnesota, this stunning geography traces the development of the state's natural environment, how the land formations, plants, and animals became a part of its fabric, and how they have changed over time. Focusing on small towns, the authors document patterns of growth and decline, offering striking commentary on these once-key bastions of Minnesota-ness. Turning to the Twin Cities, they analyze the expanding urban arc and the surprising growth of a baby boomer retirement belt. Landscapes of Minnesota explores how the lives and livelihoods of Minnesotans have affected what the state has become and what it will one day be. John Fraser Hart is a professor of geography at the University of Minnesota and a Guggenheim Fellow. Susy Svatek Ziegler is an assistant professor of geography at the University of Minnesota and a Fulbright Scholar.
Author : Hennepin County Park Reserve District (Hennepin County, Minn.)
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Page : 24 pages
File Size : 49,61 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Parks
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Page : 2170 pages
File Size : 44,37 MB
Release : 1962
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Author : University of Minnesota. Extension Service
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Page : 44 pages
File Size : 45,75 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Composting
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Page : 362 pages
File Size : 36,8 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Landscape architecture
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Page : 164 pages
File Size : 35,83 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge (Minn.)
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Author : Robert A. Lueth
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Page : 248 pages
File Size : 35,25 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Soil surveys
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Author : Christopher Tienken
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 33,46 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Education
ISBN : 1475802587
In The School Reform Landscape: Fear, Mythologies, and Lies, the authors take an in-depth and controversial look at school reform since the launch of Sputnik. They scrutinize school reform events, proposals, and policies from the last 60 years through the lens of critical social theory and examine the ongoing tensions between the need to keep a vibrant unitary system of public education and the ongoing assault by corporate and elite interests in creating a dual system. Some of events, proposals, and policies critiqued include the Sputnik myth, A Nation At Risk, No Child Left Behind, the lies of the Common Core State Standards Initiative, and other common reform schemes. The authors provide an evidence-based contrarian view of the free-market reform ideas and pierce the veil of the new reform policies to find that they are built not upon empirical evidence, but instead rest solidly on foundations of myth, fear, and lies. Ideas for a new set of reform policies, based on empirical evidence and supportive of a unitary, democratic system of education are presented.