Enduring Seeds: Native American Agriculture and Wild Plant Conservation

by Gary Paul Nabhan

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As biological diversity continues to shrink at an alarming rate, the loss of plant species poses a threat seemingly less visible than the loss of animals but in many ways more critical. In this book, one of America's leading ethnobotanists warns about our loss of natural vegetation and plant diversity while providing insights into traditional Native agricultural practices in the Americas. Gary Paul Nabhan here reveals the rich diversity of plants found in tropical forests and their contribution to modern crops, then tells how this diversity is being lost to agriculture and lumbering. He then relates "local parables" of...Read more
  • ISBN13 9780816522590
  • Publish Date 30 October 2002 (first published 1 January 1989)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of Arizona Press
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 225
  • Language English