Wild Plant Culture

Wild Plant Culture
Author: Jared Rosenbaum
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Total Pages: 509
Release: 2022-11-22
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1771423692
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Reconnect. Restore. Reciprocate. Repairing landscapes and reconnecting us to the wild plant communities around us. Integrating restoration practices, foraging, herbalism, rewilding, and permaculture, Wild Plant Culture is a comprehensive guide to the ecological restoration of native edible and medicinal plant communities in Eastern North America. Blending science, practice, and traditional knowledge, it makes bold connections that are actionable, innovative, and ecologically imperative for repairing both degraded landscapes and our broken cultural relationship with nature. Coverage includes: Understanding and engaging in mutually beneficial human-plant connections Techniques for observing the land's existing and potential plant communities Baseline monitoring, site preparation, seeding, planting, and maintaining restored areas Botanical fieldwork restoration stories and examples Detailed profiles of 209 native plants and their uses. Both a practical guide and an evocative read that will transport you deep into the natural landscape, Wild Plant Culture is an essential toolkit for gardeners, farmers, and ecological restoration practitioners, highlighting the important role humans play in tending and mending native plant communities. AWARDS SILVER | 2023 Nautilus Book Awards | Green, Restorative Practices / Sustainability HONORABLE MENTION | 2023 American Horticultural Society Book Awards

Riparian Areas

Riparian Areas
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2002-10-10
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0309082951
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The Clean Water Act (CWA) requires that wetlands be protected from degradation because of their important ecological functions including maintenance of high water quality and provision of fish and wildlife habitat. However, this protection generally does not encompass riparian areasâ€"the lands bordering rivers and lakesâ€"even though they often provide the same functions as wetlands. Growing recognition of the similarities in wetland and riparian area functioning and the differences in their legal protection led the NRC in 1999 to undertake a study of riparian areas, which has culminated in Riparian Areas: Functioning and Strategies for Management. The report is intended to heighten awareness of riparian areas commensurate with their ecological and societal values. The primary conclusion is that, because riparian areas perform a disproportionate number of biological and physical functions on a unit area basis, restoration of riparian functions along America's waterbodies should be a national goal.

Freshwater Algae

Freshwater Algae
Author: Edward G. Bellinger
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2011-09-20
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1119964326
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Freshwater Algae: Identification and Use as Bioindicators provides a comprehensive guide to temperate freshwater algae, with additional information on key species in relation to environmental characteristics and implications for aquatic management. The book uniquely combines practical material on techniques and water quality management with basic algal taxonomy and the role of algae as bioindicators. Freshwater Algae: Identification and Use as Bioindicators is divided into two parts. Part I describes techniques for the sampling, measuring and observation of algae and then looks at the role of algae as bioindicators and the implications for aquatic management. Part II provides the identification of major genera and 250 important species. Well illustrated with numerous original illustrations and photographs, this reference work is essential reading for all practitioners and researchers concerned with assessing and managing the aquatic environment.

Ski Faster

Ski Faster
Author: Lisa Feinberg Densmore
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1999
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780071343817
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Lisa Feinberg Densmore is a champion world-class skier. Talking about strategy and tactics for the slalom, giant slalom, Super-G, and downhill, to enhanced speed and grace in advanced nonrace conditions, Densmore helps skiers to get the best out of themselves on the slopes.

Botany: The Science of Plant Life

Botany: The Science of Plant Life
Author: Norman Taylor
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2022-09-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Botany: The Science of Plant Life" by Norman Taylor. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.