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Coyote at the Kitchen Door
Author | : Stephen DeStefano |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2010-01-15 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780674035560 |
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A moose frustrates commuters by wandering onto the highway; an alligator suns himself in a strip mall parking lot. DeStefano draws on decades of experience as a biologist and conservationist to examine the interplay between urban sprawl and wayward wildlife. He asks us to rethink the meaning of progress and create a new suburban wildlife ethic.
Coyote at the Kitchen Door
Author | : Stephen DeStefano |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2010-01-15 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0674035569 |
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A moose frustrates commuters by wandering onto the highway; an alligator suns himself in a strip mall parking lot. DeStefano draws on decades of experience as a biologist and conservationist to examine the interplay between urban sprawl and wayward wildlife. He asks us to rethink the meaning of progress and create a new suburban wildlife ethic.
Nature Next Door
Author | : Ellen Stroud |
Publsiher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2012-12-15 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780295804453 |
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The once denuded northeastern United States is now a region of trees. Nature Next Door argues that the growth of cities, the construction of parks, the transformation of farming, the boom in tourism, and changes in the timber industry have together brought about a return of northeastern forests. Although historians and historical actors alike have seen urban and rural areas as distinct, they are in fact intertwined, and the dichotomies of farm and forest, agriculture and industry, and nature and culture break down when the focus is on the history of Northeastern woods. Cities, trees, mills, rivers, houses, and farms are all part of a single transformed regional landscape. In an examination of the cities and forests of the northeastern United States-with particular attention to the woods of Maine, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Vermont-Ellen Stroud shows how urbanization processes there fostered a period of recovery for forests, with cities not merely consumers of nature but creators as well. Interactions between city and hinterland in the twentieth century Northeast created a new wildness of metropolitan nature: a reforested landscape intricately entangled with the region's cities and towns.
Myths and Truths About Coyotes
Author | : Carol Cartaino |
Publsiher | : Menasha Ridge Press |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780897326940 |
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Coyotes hold a peculiar interest as both an enduring symbol of the wild and a powerful predator we are always anxious to avoid. This book examines the spread of coyotes across the country over the past century, and the storm of concern and controversy that has followed. Individual chapters cover the surprisingly complex question of how to identify a coyote, the real and imagined dangers they pose, their personality and lifestyle, and nondeadly ways of discouraging them.
City Creatures
Author | : Gavin Van Horn,Dave Aftandilian |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2015-11-03 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780226192895 |
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"Published in collaboration with The Center for Humans and Nature"--Title page verso.
The Accidental Ecosystem
Author | : Peter S. Alagona |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2024-01-02 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780520397880 |
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One of Smithsonian Magazine's Favorite Books of 2022 With wildlife thriving in cities, we have the opportunity to create vibrant urban ecosystems that serve both people and animals. The Accidental Ecosystem tells the story of how cities across the United States went from having little wildlife to filling, dramatically and unexpectedly, with wild creatures. Today, many of these cities have more large and charismatic wild animals living in them than at any time in at least the past 150 years. Why have so many cities--the most artificial and human-dominated of all Earth's ecosystems--grown rich with wildlife, even as wildlife has declined in most of the rest of the world? And what does this paradox mean for people, wildlife, and nature on our increasingly urban planet? The Accidental Ecosystem is the first book to explain this phenomenon from a deep historical perspective, and its focus includes a broad range of species and cities. Cities covered include New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Austin, Miami, Chicago, Seattle, San Diego, Atlanta, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. Digging into the natural history of cities and unpacking our conception of what it means to be wild, this book provides fascinating context for why animals are thriving more in cities than outside of them. Author Peter S. Alagona argues that the proliferation of animals in cities is largely the unintended result of human decisions that were made for reasons having little to do with the wild creatures themselves. Considering what it means to live in diverse, multispecies communities and exploring how human and nonhuman members of communities might thrive together, Alagona goes beyond the tension between those who embrace the surge in urban wildlife and those who think of animals as invasive or as public safety hazards. The Accidental Ecosystem calls on readers to reimagine interspecies coexistence in shared habitats, as well as policies that are based on just, humane, and sustainable approaches.
A Faith Embracing All Creatures
Author | : Tripp York,Andy Alexis-Baker |
Publsiher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2012-11-09 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781610977012 |
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What is the purpose of animals? Didn't God give humans dominion over other creatures? Didn't Jesus eat lamb? These are the kinds of questions that Christians who advocate compassion toward other animals regularly face. Yet Christians who have a faith-based commitment to care for other animals through what they eat, what they wear, and how they live with other creatures are often unsure how to address these biblically and theologically based challenges. In A Faith Embracing All Creatures, authors from various denominational, national, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds wrestle with the text, theology, and tradition to explain the roots of their desire to live peaceably with their nonhuman kin. Together, they show that there are no easy answers on "what the Bible says about animals." Instead, there are nuances and complexities, which even those asking these questions may be unaware of. Editors Andy Alexis-Baker and Tripp York have gathered a collection of essays that wrestle with these nuances and tensions in Scripture around nonhuman animals. In so doing, they expand the discussion of nonviolence, peacemaking, and reconciliation to include the oft-forgotten other members of God's good creation.
The Voice of the Coyote
Author | : James Frank Dobie |
Publsiher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 1961-01-01 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0803250509 |
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In The Voice of the Coyote, J. Frank Dobie melds natural history with tales and lore in articulating the complex and often contentious relationship between coyotes and humans. Based on his own life experiences in Texas and twenty-five years of research, Dobie forges a sympathetic and nuanced picture of the coyote prefiguring later environmental and conservation movements. He recognizes the impact of human action on the coyote while also examining the prominent role of the coyote in the myths and legends of the West.