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To think like a mountain : environmental challenges in the American West / Niels Sparre Nokkentved.
"In the West, shortsighted human self-interest has resulted in devastating environmental losses. Fur trade beaver trapping meant streams and wetland ecosystems deteriorated. Grazing livestock depleted native bunch grasses. Migrating Idaho Salmon once reached the ocean in ten to fourteen days. Now dams stretch the journey to fifty or more. The author's goal is to encourage people to think like a mountain--to consider long-term consequences. His essays examine cultural conflicts over resource extraction, threats to watersheds by abandoned mines, wolf recovery in the northern Rocky Mountains, the lingering effects of livestock grazing on western rangelands, and the rapidly disappearing sage grouse. They discuss the importance of forest fires, the value of beavers, the failed promises of salmon hatcheries, the reasons behind the decline of the timber industry in the Pacific Northwest, and how unlikely allies learned to set aside their differences in order to resolve long-standing disputes."-- Amazon.
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- ISBN: 9780874223682
- ISBN: 0874223687
- Physical Description: xiii, 244 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Publisher: Pullman, Washington : Washington State University Press, [2019]
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Selling arctic wilderness -- Ancient art in Nine Mile Canyon -- Abandoned mines, tainted water -- Lurching toward wolf recovery -- Private livestock, public lands -- Vanishing sage grouse -- The nature of wildfire -- Bringing back the beaver -- The false promise of hatcheries -- Overcutting ancient forests -- Saving America's outback.
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| Lummi Library | GF 504 .W35 N65 2019 | 678650 | Stacks | Available | - |
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