Saving Wilderness in the Oregon Cascades
Author : Lawrence C. Merriam
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 42,74 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Three Sisters Wilderness (Or.)
ISBN :
Oregon's Wilderness Areas
Author :
Publisher : Big Earth Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 25,98 MB
Release : 2003-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781565794344
Book Description
From the towering volcanic peaks of the Three Sisters Wilderness to the Wild and Scenic Snake River winding through Hells Canyon, from the Timberline Trail around Mount Hood to the gorges of Steens Mountain, this detailed guide takes you to outdoor adventures in both the famous and lesser-known of Oregon's Wilderness Areas. Learn about the natural, human, and geological history of these protected lands; climate; flora and fauna; and ongoing preservation efforts. Whether day-hiking or backpacking, cross-country skiing or boating, this book will help you to explore the variety of activities and natural treasures within Oregon's 40 designated Wilderness Areas. Also included are full descriptions of Oregon Cascades Recreation Area and Crater Lake National Park, not official Wilderness Areas but still major Cascade wildlands. In Oregon's Wilderness Areas: The Complete Guide, ecologist, writer, and photographer George Wuerthner brings the state's diverse wildlands together into one comprehensive, pack-along guidebook. Book jacket.
The Wilderness Concept and the Three Sisters Wilderness
Author : Les Joslin
Publisher : Wilderness Associates
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 48,49 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780964716742
Book Description
The Wilderness Concept and the Three Sisters Wilderness is a guide to understanding the Three Sisters Wilderness as wilderness -- its natural and cultural history as well as the philosophical, legal, and management concepts that keep it a wilderness.
Oregon Wild
Author : Andy Kerr
Publisher : Timber Press (OR)
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,41 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Nature
ISBN :
Book Description
With the aid of 40 maps based on new research and stunning color photographs, a noted conservation advocate describes the small fraction of wild forests that remain intact.
Conserving Oregon's Environment
Author : Michael McCloskey
Publisher : First Books
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 22,18 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1592999484
Book Description
Conserving Oregon's Environment traces the arc of successes in conserving Oregon's environment, beginning in the 1880s and continuing to 2013. It answers the questions: Where did this program or reserve come from? Who led the way, and who opposed it? What difference has it made? It deals with the breadth of modern environmentalism: protecting nature, habitat, purifying ambient media, eliminating unsafe operations, and promoting energy efficiency. It is organized around themes, such as public lands, state parks, rivers, wilderness, environmental laws and turning points on such issues, modern reserves, new refuges, breakthroughs on national forests; each chapter tells its story chronologically. Two appendices accompany the text: a timeline of accomplishments, and a list of organizations providing leadership. In addition, maps show the location of reserves. It concludes that Oregon occupies a special place in the history of conservation because of the degree of innovation here and the continuity of progress. For its size, no state has done more to make history in protecting its environment.
Three Sisters Wilderness: A History
Author : Les Joslin
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 23,15 MB
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 146714665X
Book Description
The magnificent Three Sisters Wilderness, straddling the Cascade mountain range, beckons adventurers from around the world. One of the original fifty-four of the more than eight hundred such areas designated by Congress, it is Oregon's second-largest most visited and accessible wilderness. Championed by citizens of Bend, Eugene and beyond, its preservation under the Wilderness Act of 1964 was a community-wide effort to keep the dramatic vistas and diverse ecosystems available for all to enjoy. Join author Les Joslin as he explores the origins of the wilderness concept, the natural and cultural history of the Three Sisters country and the stewardship that preserves what is termed an enduring resource of wilderness.
Oregon Wilderness Act 1979
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Parks, Recreation, and Renewable Resources
Publisher :
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 38,68 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Wilderness areas
ISBN :
Book Description
Halcyon Journey
Author : Marina Richie
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,24 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780870712036
Book Description
Marina Richie's pursuit of the belted kingfisher is one of curiosity and kinship with a wild creekside community in Missoula, Montana. The first book to feature North America's beloved bird of waterways, Halcyon Journey threads natural history, memoir, and myth. Epiphanies and a citizen science discovery punctuate Richie's seven seasons tracking a skittish pair of birds. The female is more colorful than the male (unusual and puzzling) and the birds' earthen nest holes are fiendishly difficult to locate. Far-flung adventures to other continents in search of kingfisher kin deepen the author's relationship with Montana birds. In winter, she explores tribal stories of the kingfisher as messenger and helper. By the water's edge, she reconciles the loss of her naturalist father and taps into her own powers, inspired by the bird of the headfirst plunge and rattling call. Book jacket.
"Clear-cutting" Practices on National Timberlands
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Public Lands
Publisher :
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 45,40 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Clearcutting
ISBN :
Book Description
The Fight to Save the Redwoods
Author : Susan R. Schrepfer
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 27,9 MB
Release : 2003-04-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0299088537
Book Description
"This is not a simple or ordinary history of a conservation crusade. Schrepfer very ably traces the changes in scientific wisdom from nineteenth-century romanticism and teleological evolutionism to more current ecological dynamism—and the influence of those intellectual developments on political history. . . . The subject is important—much broader than the title suggests—and so is the book."—American Historical Review
