Author: Richard Manning
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: landscape, prairie, restoration, west, rewilding
Number of Pages: 238
Published: 2009-06-15
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0520256581
ISBN-13: 9780520256583

"The most destructive force in the American West is its commanding views, because they foster the illusion that we command," begins Richard Manning’s vivid, anecdotally driven account of the American plains from native occupation through the unraveling of the American enterprise to today. As he tells the story of this once rich, now mostly empty landscape, Manning also describes a grand vision for ecological restoration, currently being set in motion, that would establish a prairie preserve larger than Yellowstone National Park, flush with wild bison, elk, bears, and wolves. Taking us to

Author: Paul S. Marti
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: america, organisms, environments, rewilding, extinctions, mammoths, ice, twilight
Number of Pages: 269
Published: 2005-11-07
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0520231414
ISBN-13: 9780520231412

As recently as 11,000 years ago--"near time" to geologists--mammoths, mastodons, gomphotheres, ground sloths, giant armadillos, native camels and horses, the dire wolf, and many other large mammals roamed North America. In what has become one of science’s greatest riddles, these large animals vanished in North and South America around the time humans arrived at the end of the last great ice age. Part paleontological adventure and part memoir, Twilight of the Mammoths presents in detail internationally renowned paleoecologist Paul Martin’s widely discussed and debated "overkill" hyp

Author: Dave Foreman
Publisher: Island Press
Keywords: conservation, century, vision, america, north, rewilding
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2004-07-01
List price: $29.50
ISBN-10: 1559630612
ISBN-13: 9781559630610

Dave Foreman is one of North America’s most creative and effective conservation leaders, an outspoken proponent of protecting and restoring the earth’s wildness, and a visionary thinker. Over the past 30 years, he has helped set direction for some of our most influential conservation organizations, served as editor and publisher of key conservation journals, and shared with readers his unique style and outlook in widely acclaimed books including The Big Outside and Confessions of an Eco-Warrior.In Rewilding North America, Dave Foreman takes on arguably the biggest ecological thre

Author: Paul S. Martin
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: america, organisms, environments, rewilding, extinctions, mammoths, ice, twilight
Number of Pages: 270
Published: 2007-05-08
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0520252438
ISBN-13: 9780520252431

As recently as 11,000 years ago--"near time" to geologists--mammoths, mastodons, gomphotheres, ground sloths, giant armadillos, native camels and horses, the dire wolf, and many other large mammals roamed North America. In what has become one of science’s greatest riddles, these large animals vanished in North and South America around the time humans arrived at the end of the last great ice age. Part paleontological adventure and part memoir, Twilight of the Mammoths presents in detail internationally renowned paleoecologist Paul Martin’s widely discussed and debated "overkill" hyp

Authors:Christopher McGrory Klyza, Bill McKibben,
Publisher: Middlebury
Keywords: bicentennial, series, environmental, studies, middlebury, northeast, comes, home, rewilding, wilderness
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2001-03-01
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 1584651024
ISBN-13: 9781584651024

Fifteen experts examine the state of wilderness in the Northeast and outline a program for a rewilded North Woods.