Author: Harold Edwards BaileyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Forests and Trees of the Western National Parks
Author: Harold Edwards BaileyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Forests and Trees of the National Park System
Author: John D. CoffmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Our National Parks
Author: John MuirPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : National parks and reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
This Land
Author: Robert H. MohlenbrockPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520930517
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Part armchair travelogue, part guide book, this projected three-volume series—divided into the western, central, and eastern United States—will introduce readers to all 155 national forests across the country. This Land is the only comprehensive field guide that describes the natural features, wildernesses, scenic drives, campgrounds, and hiking trails of our national forests, many of which—while little known and sparsely visited—boast features as spectacular as those found in our national parks and monuments. Each entry includes logistical information about size and location, facilities, attractions, and associated wilderness areas. For about half of the forests, Robert H. Mohlenbrock has provided sidebars on the biological or geological highlights, drawn from the "This Land" column that he has written for Natural History magazine since 1984. Superbly illustrated with color photographs, botanical drawings, and maps, this book is loaded with information, clearly written, and easy to use. This volume covers national forests in: Alaska, Nevada, Arizona, Oregon, California, Utah, Idaho, Washington
Forests of Yosemite, Sequoia, and General Grant National Parks
Author: Cary Le Roy HillPublisher:
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Category : General Grant National Park (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Forests and Trees of the Western National Parks
Author: James SilverForests of Yosemite, Sequoia, and General Grant National Parks
Author: Cary LeRoy HillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Woody Plants of the Western National Parks
Author: Virginia Long BaileyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shrubs
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Challenge of the Big Trees
Author: William C. TweedPublisher:
ISBN: 9781938086472
Category : Kings Canyon National Park (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Beginning in 1872 with the establishment of Yellowstone, national parks were set aside to preserve for future generations the most spectacular and inspirational features of the country. The best representative examples were sought out of major ecosystems, such as Yosemite, geologic forms, such as the Grand Canyon, archaeological sites, such as Mesa Verde, and scenes of human events, such as Gettysburg. But one type of habitat--the desert--was overlooked until travel writers and the Automobile Age began to change Americans' perceptions about desert landscapes. As the National Park Service began to explore the better-known Mojave and Colorado Deserts of southern California during the 1920s for a possible desert park, many agency leaders still held the same negative image of arid lands shared by many Americans--that they are hostile environments and largely useless. But one wealthy woman--Minerva Hamilton Hoyt, from Pasadena--came forward, believing in the value of the desert, and convinced President Franklin D. Roosevelt to establish a national monument that would protect the unique and iconic Joshua trees and other desert flora and fauna. Thus was Joshua Tree National Monument officially established in 1936, and when the area later was expanded in 1994, it became Joshua Tree National Park. Since 1936 the National Park Service and a growing cadre of environmentalists and recreationalists have fought to block ongoing proposals from miners, ranchers, private landowners, and real estate developers who historically have refused to accept the idea that desert might be suitable for anything other than their consumptive activities. Joshua Tree National Park, even with its often-conflicting land uses, is more popular today than ever, serving more than one million visitors per year who find the desert to be a place worthy of respect and preservation. Distributed for George Thompson Publishing
Our National Parks
Author: John MuirPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230235684
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX THE SEQUOIA AND GENERAL GRANT NATIONAL PARKS The Big Tree (Sequoia gigantea) is Nature's forest masterpiece, and, so far as I know, the greatest of living things. It belongs to an ancient stock, as its remains in old rocks show, and has a strange air of other days about it, a thoroughbred look inherited from the long ago -- the auld lang syne of trees. Once the genus was common, and with many species flourished in the now desolate Arctic regions, in the interior of North America, and in Europe, but in long, eventful wanderings from climate to climate only two species have survived the hardships they had to encounter, the gigantea and sempervirens, the former now restricted to the western slopes of the Sierra, the other to the Coast Mountains, and both to California, excepting a few groves of Redwood which extend into Oregon. The Pacific Coast in general is the paradise of conifers. Here nearly all of them are giants, and display a beauty and magnificence unknown elsewhere. The climate is mild, the ground never freezes, and moisture and sunshine abound all the year. Nevertheless it is not easy to account for the colossal size of the Sequoias. The largest are about three hundred feet high and thirty feet in diameter. Who of all the dwellers of the plains and prairies and fertile home forests of round-headed oak and maple, hickory and elm, ever dreamed that earth could bear such growths, -- trees that the familiar pines and firs seem to know nothing about, lonely, silent, serene, with a physiognomy almost godlike; and so old, thousands of them still living had already counted their years by tens of centuries when Columbus set sail from Spain and were in the vigor of youth or middle age when the star led the Chaldean sages to the...