Wildlife Research

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Will McLean Greeley
A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington: Senator George P. McLean, Birdman of the Senate
Senator George P. McLean’s crowning achievement was overseeing passage of one of the country’s first and most important wildlife conservation laws, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918. The MBTA, which is still in effect today, has saved billions of birds from senseless killing and likely preve...
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Edward Elgar
Vulnerable Places, Vulnerable People: Trade Liberalization, Rural Poverty and the Environment
While some argue that trade liberalization has raised incomes and led to environmental protection in developing countries, others claim that it generates neither poverty reduction nor sustainability. The detailed case studies in this book demonstrate that neither interpretation is universally correc...
$7.00
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Sonia Tidemann
Ethno-ornithology
Indigenous knowledge that embraces ornithology takes in whole social dimensions that are inter-linked with environmental ethos, conservation and management for sustainability. In contrast, western approaches have tended to reduce knowledge to elemental and material references. This book looks at the...
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Pat Murray
It's More Than Fishing: The Art of Texas Trout and Redfish Angling
“The only constant in fishing is that the fish are still trying to avoid being caught as hard today as they were 100 or 1,000 years ago. To improve as anglers, we must be willing to change and evolve.” It’s More Than Fishing is a how-to guide for Texas coastal fishing that addresses a number ...
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Sandra Postel
Rivers for Life: Managing Water For People And Nature
The conventional approach to river protection has focused on water quality and maintaining some "minimum" flow that was thought necessary to ensure the viability of a river. In recent years, however, scientific research has underscored the idea that the ecological health of a river system depends no...
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Darren W Ritson
Poltergeist Parallels and Contagion
More than fifteen years after the famous South Shields Poltergeist case of 2006, and its well-received book, The South Shields Poltergeist: One Families Fight Against an Invisible Intruder , Darren W. Ritson brings you Poltergeist Parallels and Contagion , a fascinating revised and updated study o...
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Franzi Korner-Nievergelt
Bayesian Data Analysis in Ecology Using Linear Models with R, BUGS, and Stan
Bayesian Data Analysis in Ecology Using Linear Models with R, BUGS, and STAN examines the Bayesian and frequentist methods of conducting data analyses. The book provides the theoretical background in an easy-to-understand approach, encouraging readers to examine the processes that generated their...
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Martha J. Groom
Principles of Conservation Biology, Third Edition
Principles of Conservation Biology, Third Edition features a wholly revised organization, emphasizing analyses of different categories of threat and approaches to conservation. Coverage has been expanded to incorporate both terrestrial and marine conservation issues, and efforts in the U.S. and acro...
$69.00
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W E Burnette
Requiem Shark
Requiem Shark is an adventure story with likable characters, an exotic setting, and a shark. The story goes something like this:  When an old surfer is killed by a big bull shark off the Florida coast, an odd collection of footloose misfits is drawn to the beach where he died--two friends who serv...
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Robin Kobaly
The Desert Underground: Exposing a Valuable Hidden World Under Our Feet
The Desert Underground is a graphic, virtual tour of the hidden but magnificent world under the surface of desert soils, a realm that silently works under our feet every day. Readers are led along an illustrated tour through our desert soils, delving deeper and deeper into the underground. This tour...
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Cameron Hensley
Florida Bucket List: Explore 150 Must-See Locations Across the Sunshine State (Hensley Bucket List Series)
Dear Explorer Imagine waking up to the warm Florida sunshine, the sound of the ocean crashing just a short walk away, and the thrill of your next adventure right around the corner. Whether it’s exploring the world-famous beaches, diving into the rich history of St. Augustine, or experiencing the m...
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Heather Hansman
Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West
Award-winning journalist rafts down the Green River, revealing a multifaceted look at the present and future of water in the American West. The Green River, the most significant tributary of the Colorado River, runs 730 miles from the glaciers of Wyoming to the desert canyons of Utah. Over its co...
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Jill Pruetz
Apes on the Edge: Chimpanzee Life on the West African Savanna (Animal Lives)
A moving story of survival and an eye-opening introduction to an extraordinary community of chimps and people.   Fongoli chimpanzees are unique for many reasons. Their female hunters are the only apes that regularly hunt with tools, seeking out tiny bush babies with wooden spears. Unlike most ot...
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John Schelhas
Saving Forests, Protecting People?: Environmental Conservation in Central America (Globalization and the Environment)
Tropical forest conservation is attracting widespread public interest and helping to shape the ways in which environmental scientists and other groups approach global environmental issues. Schelhas and Pfeffer show that globally-driven forest conservation efforts have had different results in differ...
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Ron Tyler
Texas Lithographs: A Century of History in Images
2024 Ewell L. Newman Book Award, American Historical Print Collectors Society 2024 Kate Broocks Bates Award for Historical Research, Texas State Historical Association​ 2024 TCU Texas Book Prize, Friends of the TCU Library and the TCU Press 2024 Kempner Family Book Prize—Nonfiction,The Philos...
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Daniel B. Botkin
Discordant Harmonies: A New Ecology for the Twenty-first Century
Global warming, acid rain, the depletion of forests, the polluting of our atmosphere and oceans--the threats to our environment are numerous, raising justifiable concern among most of us and genuine alarm in some. But as scientist Daniel Botkin argues in this provocative new book, our ability to sol...
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Sara A. Gagné
Nature at Your Door: Connecting with the Wild and Green in the Urban and Suburban Landscape
We are an integral part of the ecosystem where we live. In this book we learn that what we do in our yards matters just as much as the way our local parks and nature preserves are managed. Author and professor of landscape ecology Sara Gagné focuses on the ecological importance of our day-to-day ac...
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Laurie Schulsinger Klein
Will Abby See Whales Today?: A Birthday Adventure
Will Abby See Whales Today? A Birthday Adventure is a personal narrative about a father taking his daughter on a whale watching adventure for her birthday. It shows the deep bond created between father and daughter during this special time together. This book is based on a true story when the autho...
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W. Douglas Robinson
Southern Illinois Birds: An Annotated List and Site Guide
Designed to help bird watchers in the field and at home discover the significance of their observations, Southern Illinois Birds documents current knowledge of the birds of southern Illinois by surveying both the published literature on the subject and the unpublished field notes of active observe...
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U. S. National Park Service
Water Resources Management Plan, Curecanti National Recreation Area (Classic Reprint): 35309
A practical, plan‑level view of water in Curecanti National Recreation Area and how it’s managed for people and nature. This Water Resources Management Plan describes the area’s water resources, the issues affecting them, and the actions the National Park Service plans to take. It links with ...
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