George Wuerthner

The Complete Guide

Oregon's Wilderness Areas

The Wildfire Reader presents, in an affordable paperback edition, the essays included in Wildfire, offering a concise overview of fire landscapes and the past century of forest policy that has affected them.

A Century of Failed Forest Policy

The Wildfire Reader

Mollie Yoneko Matteson

"This book shows the real West, not the one seen in postcards or imagined from romantic movies and novels. With photographs and essays, it shows not only the most shocking cases of overgrazing, but also the subtle changes that signal ecological disruption on a massive scale. Welfare Ranching explains the cultural and historical causes of the wasting of the West and offers a vision of the renewal that is possible if citizens are willing to demand that their government shift land management priorities to serving the public and natural good, rather than facilitating private gain. Ultimately, this book points the way to the greatest opportunity yet remaining for ecological restoration and wildlife protection in this country."--BOOK JACKET.

The Subsidized Destruction of the American West

Welfare Ranching

Excellent chapters on geology, vegetation, and wildlife.-Backpacker A friendly guide to one of the most spectacular places on Earth.-Outdoor Photographer The ecosystems within Mount Rainier National Park in Washington state are diverse-from subalpine meadow to old-growth forest-and support a variety of birds, reptiles, amphibians, fishes, mammals, and plants. Mount Rainier describes and illustrates in full color each of these plant and animal species and explores the park's geological history, land use issues, native people, and past explorers-at once a traveler's guide, field guide, and natural history of one of America's most popular and extraordinary national parks.

A Visitor's Companion

Mount Rainier

This full-color guide to Olympic National Park in Washington state, one of the nation's most popular destinations, details the diverse ecosystems to be found in the area, including a temperate rainforest. 255 color illustrations.

Olympic

A guide to the Grand Canyon provides an introduction to the history and geography of the region and identifies the plants, birds, and animals found in the canyon

Grand Canyon

Eileen Crist

Tom Butler

Published in association with Foundation for Deep Ecology, San Francisco, CA.

Parks and Wilderness, the Foundation for Conservation

Protecting the Wild

Explores wildfires from ecological, economic, and sociopolitical perspectives while documenting how past forest policies have hindered the natural wildfire process, creating the conditions for more dangerous fires in the future.

Wildfire

Is it time to embrace the so-called “Anthropocene”—the age of human dominion—and to abandon tried-and-true conservation tools such as parks and wilderness areas? Is the future of Earth to be fully domesticated, an engineered global garden managed by technocrats to serve humanity? The schism between advocates of rewilding and those who accept and even celebrate a “post-wild” world is arguably the hottest intellectual battle in contemporary conservation. In Keeping the Wild, a group of prominent scientists, writers, and conservation activists responds to the Anthropocene-boosters who claim that wild nature is no more (or in any case not much worth caring about), that human-caused extinction is acceptable, and that “novel ecosystems” are an adequate replacement for natural landscapes. With rhetorical fists swinging, the book’s contributors argue that these “new environmentalists” embody the hubris of the managerial mindset and offer a conservation strategy that will fail to protect life in all its buzzing, blossoming diversity. With essays from Eileen Crist, David Ehrenfeld, Dave Foreman, Lisi Krall, Harvey Locke, Curt Meine, Kathleen Dean Moore, Michael Soulé, Terry Tempest Williams and other leading thinkers, Keeping the Wild provides an introduction to this important debate, a critique of the Anthropocene boosters’ attack on traditional conservation, and unapologetic advocacy for wild nature.

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