Combining personal experience with concrete fact, A K Hellum's "Listening to Trees" tells the story of a man's lifelong journey to salvage today's ...

Where economic activity will locate in the future is one of the most important questions in economics. Even though advances in technology have redu...

Natural resource policy and management in the United States often are characterized by limited budgets and multiple, and sometimes competing, socie...

Marshes, both tidal and non-tidal, are productive and complex ecosystems. The water in these systems ranges from fresh, to brackish, to saline as o...

Roderick L. Haig-Brown welcomes us onto his lush farm for a year of insights and observations. In this eloquently written account, Haig-Brown, his ...

Jersey-born William Mesny ran off to sea as a boy and jumped ship at Shanghai in 1860 when he was just 18. Amid the chaos of foreign intrigue and c...

Life was one big adventure for Hiram Cody Tegart. At times unbelievable and others just downright impressive, Mountain Man is the celebration of a ...

This book explores the National Forest System with a focus on congressionally designated special management areas and road-less area initiatives. C...

Forest ecology includes within its scope the components and functions of forest ecosystems -- a community of organisms interacting with each other ...

Ecology is the study of the interrelationships between organisms and their environment, including the biotic and abiotic components. There are at l...

Karstified landscapes are among the most bizarre on our planet -- both above and below ground. This book takes you on a visual journey across subli...

In 2015 three leading scientific experts on nudibranchs and sea slugs collaborated to produce a comprehensive guide for divers and scientists to th...

Forest ecosystems cover around 31% of the total land area of the Earth. They represent important biodiversity and genetic resources; provide materi...

From the 1920s to 1952, George and Else Seel lived about sixty kilometres south of Burns Lake near the small farming settlement of Wistaria on the ...

This is an extension of the author's earlier volume, "Eskimo Orientation Systems". This time it covers all the contiguous languages -- and cultures...

This book makes a significant academic contribution because the study enriches the theories of social capital, governance and participatory forestr...

This book is in response to the growing demand from academics and the general public for state-of-the-art research in permafrost science and, in pa...

Growing demands on the transportation system and constraints on public resources have led to calls for more private sector involvement in the provi...

In this book, the authors gather and present current research in the study of the types, threats and management of pine forests. Topics discussed i...

This book is organised into three main parts: plantation forestry in context; plantation silviculture and management and plantation forestry econom...

The Polynesian navigator Kupe is credited with the discovery of the land his expedition named Aotearoa, land of the long white cloud. How did he an...