The book chronicles the adventures of Ed and Janice Schofield including building their own home, learning about the wild plants, the people and the wildlife of the area. Short episodic chapters keep readers turning the pages full of «can-do spirit» and live in the last frontier. Part love story, part adventure, and part natural history, this is a chaming memoir. ...
Учебное пособие знакомит с современными направлениями биоэкологического картографирования. Они представлены на примере отечественных и зарубежных картографических произведений. Предметом рассмотрения являются различные подходы к разработке содержания карт, особенностям организации легенд и принципам оформления карт. Цель издания – помочь пользователям освоить сложные методологические вопросы биоэкологического картографирования как действенного и ...
В предлагаемом пособии представлен широкий круг тем, включающий знания из областей географии, биологии и экологии. Рассмотрены вопросы землеведения, географических закономерностей и причинно-следственных связей между компонентами природы, основы ботаники и зоологии, взаимосвязи между живой и неживой природой и человеком. Соответствует актуальным требованиям Федерального государственного образовательного стандарта среднего профессионального образ ...
In the summer of 2017, wildfires dominated the headlines in British Columbia. As a low pressure weather system continued to cause lightning strikes, starting new fires, strong winds fanned the existing ones. Over two hundred fires burned in the province and nearly ten thousand people in or around the towns of 100 Mile House, Ashcroft, Cache Creek, Princeton and Williams Lake received the instruction YOU MUST E ...
With over forty years since its original printing, and over 30,000 copies sold, this bestselling guide still remains a trusted and much-consulted reference for those interested in identifying, foraging and growing wild plants for food and medicine. Now <i>Some Useful Wild Plants</i> is back in print for a new generation of foragers and herbalists. <i>Some Useful Wild Plants</i> contains sections on useful herbs, t ...
In 1970, twenty-two-year-old Thom Henley left Michigan and drifted around the northwest coast, getting by on odd jobs and advice from even odder characters. He rode the rails, built a squatter shack on a beach, came to be known as «Huckleberry» and embarked on adventures along the West Coast and abroad that, just like his Mark Twain namesake, situated him in all the right and wrong places at all the right and wrong times. Eventually, a hippie na ...
QUI A DIT QU'ETRE ECOLO COUTAIT TROP CHER ? On l'entend souvent, l'ecologie est un sport reserve aux plus fortunes, a ceux qui peuvent se le permettre. Dans Ecolo d profit, Jonas Schneiter fait dementir les cliches : oui, on peut etre ecolo sans y laisser toutes ses economies. Et encore mieux, etre ecolo peut meme nous rapporter des sous ! Revenant sur sa propre experience de vie a la suite du film Demain et de l'emission Auj ...
The late writer and naturalist Ellen Meloy wrote and recorded a series of audio essays for KUER, NPR Utah in the 1990s. Every few months, she would travel to their Salt Lake City studios from her red rock home of Bluff to read an essay or two. With understated humor and sharp insight, Meloy would illuminate facets of human connection to nature and challenge listeners to examine the world anew. <i>Seasons: Desert Sketches</i> is a com ...
Eli Knapp takes readers from a leaky dugout canoe in Tanzania and the mating grounds of Ecuador's cock-of-the-rock to a juniper titmouse's perch at the Grand Canyon and the migration of hooded mergansers in a New York swamp, exploring life's deepest questions all along the way. In this collection of essays, Knapp intentionally flies away from the flock, reveling in insights gleaned from birds, his students, and the wide-eyed wonde ...
