Emerald; History of a Pioneer Community
Author : Elden Leslie Brigham
Publisher :
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 12,27 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Emerald (Mich.)
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Author : Elden Leslie Brigham
Publisher :
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 12,27 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Emerald (Mich.)
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Author : Cindy L. Hull
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 14,65 MB
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1609173422
Chippewa Lake is an idyllic waterfront community in north-central Michigan, popular with retirees and weekenders. The lake is surrounded by a rural farming community, but the area is facing a difficult transition as local demographics shift, and as it transforms from an agriculture-based economy to one that relies on wage labor. As farms have disappeared, local residents have employed a variety of strategies to adapt to a new economic structure. The community, meanwhile, has been indelibly affected by the advent of newcomers and retirees challenging the rural cultural values. An anthropologist with a background in sociology, Cindy L. Hull deftly weaves together oral accounts, historic documents, and participant surveys compiled from her nearly thirty years of living in the area to create a textured portrait of a community in flux.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1076 pages
File Size : 21,36 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Copyright
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Author : Cornelia F. Mutel
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 36,85 MB
Release : 2008-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1587297477
In The Emerald Horizon, Cornelia Mutel combines lyrical writing with meticulous scientific research to portray the environmental past, present, and future of Iowa. In doing so, she ties all of Iowa's natural features into one comprehensive whole. Since so much of the tallgrass state has been transformed into an agricultural landscape, Mutel focuses on understanding today’s natural environment by understanding yesterday’s changes. After summarizing the geological, archaeological, and ecological features that shaped Iowa’s modern landscape, she recreates the once-wild native communities that existed prior to Euroamerican settlement. Next she examines the dramatic changes that overtook native plant and animal communities as Iowa’s prairies, woodlands, and wetlands were transformed. Finally she presents realistic techniques for restoring native species and ecological processes as well as a broad variety of ways in which Iowans can reconnect with the natural world. Throughout, in addition to the many illustrations commissioned for this book, she offers careful scientific exposition, a strong sense of respect for the land, and encouragement to protect the future by learning from the past. The “emerald prairie” that “gleamed and shone to the horizon’s edge,” as botanist Thomas Macbride described it in 1895, has vanished. Cornelia Mutel’s passionate dedication to restoring this damaged landscape—and by extension the transformed landscape of the entire Corn Belt—invigorates her blend of natural history and human history. Believing that citizens who are knowledgeable about native species, communities, and ecological processes will better care for them, she gives us hope—and sound suggestions—for the future.
Author : Michigan Genealogical Council
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 26,14 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Michigan
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Author : Mideastern Michigan Library Cooperative
Publisher :
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,97 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Flint (Mich.)
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 39,81 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Michigan
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Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 11,10 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Subject catalogs
ISBN :
Beginning with 1953, entries for Motion pictures and filmstrips, Music and phonorecords form separate parts of the Library of Congress catalogue. Entries for Maps and atlases were issued separately 1953-1955.
Author : David Beerling
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 13,74 MB
Release : 2017-05-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 0192529781
Plants have profoundly moulded the Earth's climate and the evolutionary trajectory of life. Far from being 'silent witnesses to the passage of time', plants are dynamic components of our world, shaping the environment throughout history as much as that environment has shaped them. In The Emerald Planet, David Beerling puts plants centre stage, revealing the crucial role they have played in driving global changes in the environment, in recording hidden facets of Earth's history, and in helping us to predict its future. His account draws together evidence from fossil plants, from experiments with their living counterparts, and from computer models of the 'Earth System', to illuminate the history of our planet and its biodiversity. This new approach reveals how plummeting carbon dioxide levels removed a barrier to the evolution of the leaf; how plants played a starring role in pushing oxygen levels upwards, allowing spectacular giant insects to thrive in the Carboniferous; and it strengthens fascinating and contentious fossil evidence for an ancient hole in the ozone layer. Along the way, Beerling introduces a lively cast of pioneering scientists from Victorian times onwards whose discoveries provided the crucial background to these and the other puzzles. This understanding of our planet's past sheds a sobering light on our own climate-changing activities, and offers clues to what our climatic and ecological futures might look like. There could be no more important time to take a close look at plants, and to understand the history of the world through the stories they tell. Oxford Landmark Science books are 'must-read' classics of modern science writing which have crystallized big ideas, and shaped the way we think.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher :
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 26,70 MB
Release : 1974
Category : American drama
ISBN :