The Final Forest: The Battle for the Last Great Trees of the Pacific Northwest

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Good educational sourcebook.......2005-12-20

We use this book on NOLS expeditions specifically because it treats conservation as a dilemma of competing moral values. It really helps our students, whether they are greenies or industrialists, to see all sides of an issue. And if we choose to carry a book like this at NOLS, it means we literally carry it in a backpack for the entire 30 day expedition, which speaks highly for the value of this book.

A balanced view.......2005-02-22

"I hope you read it [the book] for whatever understanding it provides. Then, when you get a chance, go and read the living things that it came from."
This, the last sentence in the book, powerfully wraps up an engrossing examination of both sides of the controversy on logging old-growth forests. Always on the side of the environmentalists, I came to understand and sympathize with the loggers who cut them down. Not an easy task for any writer to undertake. But Dietrich has done it, and done it well. No wonder he won a Pulitzer Prize. The writing is clear and sharp, and at times, poetic in imagery. Yes, I have been to the Olympic old-growth forests of which he speaks, and he is right when he says that the minute you enter them, there is magic. Even the loggers feel this. The stories of individuals, both on the side of timber and the side of trees, eloquently speak of passions and lifestyles, battles won and lost. Anita Goos is not someone I will soon forget. Dietrich tells of men and women who choose their battles, sometimes unwillingly, but who enter the fray with hearts and minds wholly in the cause.
It is well to follow this book with "The Hidden Forest" by Jon Luoma, written seven years later.

this book is great!.......2004-03-06

I read this book for my research paper on old growth forests. Originally I was going to just try to fly through it and take out the information that I needed for my paper, but as I read it I got really into it and almost forgot about my paper altogether! I think the best thing about this book is that it represents all sides of the issue. William Dietrich talks to cutters, truck drivers, biologists, environmentalists, foresters, and the community itself and tells all sides of the situation in his book. When I originally chose to do my paper on preservation of old growth forests, I was completely against cutting down of trees, and even though I am still not exactly for it, this book really helped me to be more open-minded and understand the different point of views...

All sides of the story.......2001-10-18

I gained a deeper understanding of the conflicts surrounding forestry in the Pacific Northwest. The stories told in this book could never be explained or understood in a 30 second television news broadcast. And while much of the news is depressing, this book offers hope for a brighter future where science, conservation, forestry, and consumer interests can meet for the future use of our forest resources.

A Usefully Complex Treatment of a Complex Issue.......2000-04-07

Natural resource management, like abortion, is one of those enormously complex political issues that too often gets reduced to dueling slogans and sound bites. William Dietrich does readers a great service by letting people from all sides of the issue (there are many more than two) speak at length, and by juxtaposing their views in ways that highlight similarities as well as differences. One of the book's running themes is that both loggers and environmentalists love the forests, but that each group has great difficulty seeing that quality in the other. Their mutual incomprehension is rooted in their utterly different ideas of why forests are important, and how humans ought to relate to them.

This deep philosophical difference is at least as old as the 20th century. John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club, and Gifford Pinchot, first chief of the US Forest Service, fought battles similar to the ones Dietrich describes back at the (last) turn of the century. Dietrich, a journalist writing about a present-day controversy, says very little about that history, and that choice makes the book less informative (and less helpful as a means to understanding the problem) than it might be.

Still, _The Final Forest_ is a valuable, well-balanced piece of journalism. It's a great resource for open-minded people on either side of the preservation vs. development debate, and a superb introduction for anyone coming to the issue for the first time.

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The Final Forest. The Battle For The Last Great Trees of the Pacific Northwest
William Dietrich
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NUNPUE

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This book provides a comprehensive and interactive view of recent advances in the cytology, anatomy, and physiology of roots as presented at the 5th International Symposium on Structure and Function of Roots, held on 31 August-4 September, 1998, in StarÃ¡ LesnÃ¡, Slovakia. This edition differs from previous ones by including some aspects of functional genetics and plant morphogenesis. The book is intended to serve both students and researchers as a valuable source of updated information, ideas, and concepts dealing with the most fundamental questions of development and function of plant roots.

Root Hairs: The 'Gills' of Roots, Development, Structure, and Functions

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Root Hairs: The 'Gills' of Roots, Development, Structure, and Functions
V. Bhaskar
Manufacturer: Science Publishers
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Root Nodules of Legumes: Structure and Functions (Psychophysiology Research Studies Series)

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Root Nodules of Legumes: Structure and Functions (Psychophysiology Research Studies Series)
F. J. Bergersen
Manufacturer: Research Studies Press
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Structure and Function of Plant Roots (Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences)

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Structure and Function of Plant Roots (Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences)
R. Brouwer , O. Gasparikova , J. Kolek , and B.C. Loughman
Manufacturer: Springer
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Structure and Function of Roots (Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences)

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Structure and Function of Roots (Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences)

Manufacturer: Springer
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ASIN: 0792328329

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These papers summarize the present status of knowledge related to the structure and function of primary root tissues and their cells, as presented at the Fourth International Symposium on the Structure and Functions of Roots. The organizers assembled leading scientists from all over the world. All five subject areas that were presented at the Symposium are covered in the book.

Structure and Functions of White Clover Root Systems

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Structure and Functions of White Clover Root Systems
P.B. Bansal
Manufacturer: Gene-Tech Books
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 8189729217

Effects of vegetation on root-associated microbial communities: A comparison of disturbed versus undisturbed estuarine sediments [An article from: Soil Biology and Biochemistry]

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Effects of vegetation on root-associated microbial communities: A comparison of disturbed versus undisturbed estuarine sediments [An article from: Soil Biology and Biochemistry]
B. Ravit , J.G. Ehenfeld , and M.M. Haggblom
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is a journal article from Soil Biology and Biochemistry, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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While it has been demonstrated that microbial communities are influenced by plant species composition in upland systems, less is known about how estuarine vegetation may influence the structure and functional capabilities of sediment microbial communities. In this study, we adapted terrestrial catabolic response profile (CRP) methods for use under brackish anaerobic conditions. CRPs were employed to determine whether salt marsh vegetation had an effect on sediment microbial community function. Phospholipid fatty acids (PLFAs) were utilized as a descriptor of microbial community structure. Samples were obtained from monospecific Spartina alterniflora and Phragmites australis plots located in disturbed and undisturbed estuarine salt marsh systems. In response to the addition of a range of 30 organic substrates we observed significant CO"2 production in vegetated versus non-vegetated sediments from the undisturbed site. Vegetated sediments from the undisturbed system produced greater amounts of both CO"2 and CH"4, while sediments from the disturbed site consumed CO"2 except in response to carboxylic acid substrates. In response to nitrogen-containing (amino acid) substrates undisturbed Phragmites sediments produced the highest amount of CO"2 seen in any sample. Few differences in CRPs or PLFAs were seen in sediments from the disturbed site. The production of CO"2 was significantly correlated with microbial community structure as described by PLFA profiles. This study is the first to use CRPs to describe estuarine sediment microbial community functional ability, and to link this ability with community PLFA composition. Our results suggest that individual plant species have a less pronounced effect than has been observed in upland soils in structuring salt marsh sediment microbial communities. Under anthropogenically disturbed conditions the effects of the macrophyte root zone on the sediment microbial communities may be overwhelmed, resulting in different ecosystem level functional abilities.

Plant-microbe interface: Structure and function

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Plant-microbe interface: Structure and function
P. A. (Peter Allen) McGee
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ASIN: B0007BZVRE

Structure and function of root wood: By Helmut Riedel

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Structure and function of root wood: By Helmut Riedel
Helmut Riedel
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Structure, growth and some functions of the root system of slow-growing and rapid-growing (Picea excelsa L.) depending on improvement cutting =: Stroenie, ... excelsa L.) v zavisimosti ot rubok ukhoda

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Structure, growth and some functions of the root system of slow-growing and rapid-growing (Picea excelsa L.) depending on improvement cutting =: Stroenie, ... excelsa L.) v zavisimosti ot rubok ukhoda
L. N Zgurovskaya
Manufacturer: Al-Ahram Center for Scientific Translations
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0007AS370

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Duc de Berry's magical calendar pictures in the "Tres Riches Heures" give a colorful, richly detailed account of the life of peasants and nobles through the changing seasons - the cold, snowy days of winter and the warmth of the open fire, spring with its fresh colors and flowers everywhere, summer with harvesters labouring in the heat, and autumn when the grapes are picked and the seeds sown.

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France: The 4 Seasons

Manufacturer: Pavilion
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ASIN: 1862053138

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From the beaches of Brittany and the misty, sheep-cropped mountains of the Auvergne to the shadowy forests of the Alsace and the shores of the Mediterranean, master photographer Michael Busselle has covered thousands of miles, exploring remote river valleys and winding country roads to record the beauty of France. His timeless images exquisitely depict the changing of the land as one season gives way to the next. From his village home in the Pèrigord, novelist Frederic Raphael writes with great sensitivity of the changing landscape and records the traditions that are so much a part of the appeal of la belle France.

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I Am Curious About the Four Seasons
Frances Leos
Manufacturer: Scholastic Trade
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For life to be understood and disease to become manageable, the wealth of postgenomic data now needs to be made dynamic. This development requires systems biology, integrating computational models for cells and organisms in health and disease; quantitative experiments (high-throughput, genome-wide, living cell, in silico); and new concepts and principles concerning interactions. This book defines the new field of systems biology and discusses the most efficient experimental and computational strategies. The benefits for industry, such as the new network-based drug-target design validation, and testing, are also presented.

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Mathematical control theory has evolved from the study of practical problems in engineering and sciences to the elaboration of deep, important concepts in mathematics and applied sciences. This volume concerns contemporary trends in nonlinear geometric control theory and its applications. It is a fine collection of papers presenting new results, relevant open problems, and important applications regarding academic and real-world problems.

The book is dedicated to Velimir Jurdjevic whose scientific activity has been influential in the research of many of the authors. It contains a number of articles specially written by colleagues and friends of Vel Jurdjevic, all of them leading applied mathematicians and control theorists. There is also place for surveys on topics of current research which present the state of the art of modern geometric control theory. Finally, the volume contains several new mathematical ideas generated by geometric control theory techniques, which may initiate new directions of research beyond control theory.

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The Second Half of the Iliad in Greek.......2000-05-30

The companion to Monro's first volume, Iliad I-XII, this is classical scholarship at its best and most essential. Monro produced in the 19th century an edition of Homer's great epic in Greek that is still used by scholars around the world who read and work with the poem's original Greek text. This book is not for beginning readers of ancient Greek, since it follows the usual format of Oxford Classical Texts and lacks any commentary. But for those who can read the Greek, this volume offers some of the best moments of the epic: the death of the hero Achilles' great friend, Patroklos and his funeral games; the savage return to battle by Achilles and his victory over Hector; the final ransom of Hector's body by his aged father Priam from his mortal enemy. No one who can should miss the chance to read the Iliad in its original beauty.

Homer's masterpiece.......2000-03-29

This edition, in the original Greek, contains half of the Iliad and is followed by several other volumes, which contain the second half of the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Homeric Hymns.

The Iliad centers around the anger of the warrior Achilles when Agammenon unjustly takes his concubine. Achilles subsequently refuses to fight, and, because his divine strength makes him indispensible to the Greek war effort, the Greeks are nearly driven from the Trojan shores.

Reading this book in the original language makes a big difference. Homer is a master of both sound and sense and to read him in translation deprives the reader of the former.

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A substantial introduction covers many of the questions that lie behind the poem, including a thorough summary of Homeric grammar; the text is elucidated with full annotations, indexes and bibliography.

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Homer Odyssey Books I - XII
W. W. Merry
Manufacturer: Oxford at the Claredon Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000K6Z0FY

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Homer Odyssey Books I - XII
W. W. Merry
Manufacturer: Oxford at the Claredon Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000K70S9Q

The Odyssey of Homer, 2 Vol. , Books I-XII & XIII-XXIV

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The Odyssey of Homer, 2 Vol. , Books I-XII & XIII-XXIV
Alexander Pope
Manufacturer: Methuen
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000RKY2KM

The Odyssey of Homer, Edited with General and Grammatical Introduction, Commentary, and Indexes (Vol. 1 Books I-XII)

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The Odyssey of Homer, Edited with General and Grammatical Introduction, Commentary, and Indexes (Vol. 1 Books I-XII)

Manufacturer: Macmillan
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Homer's Odyssey. Edited with English notes, appendices, etc. by W. Walter Merry and the late James Riddell. Vol. I: Books I-XII (Clarendon Press series)

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Homer's Odyssey. Edited with English notes, appendices, etc. by W. Walter Merry and the late James Riddell. Vol. I: Books I-XII (Clarendon Press series)
Homer
Manufacturer: Clarendon Press
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The Odyssey of Homer in Two Volumes Vol. I (Books I-XII)

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The Odyssey of Homer in Two Volumes Vol. I (Books I-XII)
W. B. (editor) Homer | Stanford
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000KBNZUQ

The Odyssey of Homer, in Two Volumes -- Vol. I (Books I-XII) only

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The Odyssey of Homer, in Two Volumes -- Vol. I (Books I-XII) only
ed.] Homer [W. B. Stanford
Manufacturer: Macmillan
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Odyssey of Homer: Books I-XII & XIII-XXIV (Two volumes).

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Odyssey of Homer: Books I-XII & XIII-XXIV (Two volumes).
Alexander Pope
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ASIN: B000M4JG22

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