Wisconsin Land Legacy Report


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Report to identify places to be most important in meeting Wisconsin's conservation and recreation needs over the next fifty years and to determine where protection efforts should be focused.




Visions of Tomorrow


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The Vanishing Present


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Straddling temperate forests and grassland biomes and stretching along the coastline of two Great Lakes, Wisconsin contains tallgrass prairie and oak savanna, broadleaf and coniferous forests, wetlands, natural lakes, and rivers. But, like the rest of the world, the Badger State has been transformed by urbanization and sprawl, population growth, and land-use change. For decades, industry and environment have attempted to coexist in Wisconsin—and the dynamic tensions between economic progress and environmental protection makes the state a fascinating microcosm for studying global environmental change. The Vanishing Present brings together a distinguished set of contributors—including scientists, naturalists, and policy experts—to examine how human pressures on Wisconsin’s changing lands, waters, and wildlife have redefined the state’s ecology. Though they focus on just one state, the authors draw conclusions about changes in temperate habitats that can be applied elsewhere, and offer useful insights into future of the ecology, conservation, and sustainability of Wisconsin and beyond. A fitting tribute to the home state of Aldo Leopold and John Muir, The Vanishing Present is an accessible and timely case study of a significant ecosystem and its response to environmental change.







Managing Wisconsin's Natural Resources


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Wisconsin's Renewable Resources


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Excerpt from Wisconsin's Renewable Resources: A Report on Research at the University of Wisconsin Into the Renewable Resources of Field, Forest, Lake, and Stream It might be pointed out that research is a continuing effort. As far as we can see today, there will never be a time when the acquisition of new knowledge will not be a useful pursuit for man. Each new finding, each fact acquired, has its own particular practical use; it is often most useful for opening new doors for further explorations into the unknown. Man's search into the mysteries of the universe and of life will go on; it is his nature that he must explore. The advances that have resulted from this quest in the past 300 years are but a portent of the future achievements, both practical and philosophic, that are to be had. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.




Waters of Wisconsin


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Wisconsin's Forest Resources


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