This book offers a series of interviews with Canadian ranchers that highlight the innovative and effective ways that they manage vast swaths of grassland for two complementary goals: commercial viability and sustainable habitats. The book’s author is an academic who grew up among ranchers in the grasslands of Canada, and the expertise and viewpoints she has distilled from these interviews complement the academic literature in accessible and surprising ways . As these productive landscapes face i...
Exotic Plant Monitoring in the Southern Plains Network (Natural Resource Technical Report Nps/Sopn/Nrtr?2012/538)
by Heidi Sosinski, U S Department O National Park Service, and Tomye Folts-Zettner
The A World to Preserve series brings together breathtaking landscapes, inspiring quotes, and infographics about environmental issues that take the reader on a journey through the depths of the earth. "We really have the most beautiful planet in our solar system. None other can sustain life like we know it. None other has blue water and white clouds covering colorful landmasses filled with thriving, beautiful, living things like human beings." - Sunita Williams The mesmerising pictures in The Ea...
Elk & Bison Prairie Field Guide (Pocket Naturalist Guide)
by James Kavanagh
The Land between the Lakes is a sprawling 170,000-acre nature preserve in southeastern Kentucky. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights the vast herds of elk and bison in the region and over 100 familiar and unique species of animals and plants inhabiting this pristine preserve. Created in collaboration with the Land Between the Lakes Association, a portion of the proceeds from the sale of this guide support its important work. Laminated for durability, this lightweight, pocket-sized fold...
Southeastern Grasslands
A holistic approach to analyzing distinct grassland habitats that integrates ecological, historical, and archaeological data. Today the southeastern United States is a largely rural, forested, and agricultural landscape interspersed with urban areas of development. However, two centuries ago it contained hundreds of thousands of acres of natural grasslands that stretched from Florida to Texas. Now more than 99 percent of these prairies, glades, and savannas have been plowed up or paved over,...
July 2018-December 2019 Planner (2018-2019 Academic Planner 8.5 X 11, #3)
by Staci Giron
Create a Gender-Balanced Workplace (Penguin Business Experts)
by Ann Francke
'Useful, practical and non-preachy' Financial Times Gender balance is first and foremost a business issue. McKinsey estimates we could add 28 trillion to global GDP if we achieved gender equality everywhere - that is more than the GDPs of the US and China combined. But it is so much more than that. Gender balance is one of the best levers we can pull to build better managers and leaders at every level, improve team performance and create better cultures where everyone can thrive.In the Penguin...
Optimisation of nutrient cycling and soil quality for sustainable grasslands
This book brings together two aspects of grassland soil management which, by and large, have hitherto been considered separately. Issues related to nutrient cycling and soil quality have dominated research directed towards aiding broad and local scale policy issues for improving land use. Protecting the environment and maintaining/preserving natural habitats and biodiversity, tend to be considered separately. In this book we attempt to bring what are, in reality, inseparable aspects of grassland...
From Abronia to Zinnia, Jewels of the Plains describes the natural history and garden merits of more than five hundred Great Plains wildflowers. Considered the authoritative guide by native plant enthusiasts and horticulturists, it captures the unique beauty, resilience, and variety of wildflowers in the Great Plains. Claude A. Barr did not set out to be a writer. In 1910, he homesteaded 160 acres of prairie in the southwest corner of South Dakota, intending to become a farmer. Despite challeng...
Shoot for the Moon and If You Miss You'll Still Be Among the Stars Weekly Planne (Gold Galaxy, #1)
by Galaxy Planners and Pretty Planners
Seasons of the Tallgrass Prairie
by Foundation Professor of Biological Sciences Paul A Johnsgard
Dartmoor's Alluring Uplands
by Matthew Tompkins and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Pathological Science Harold Fox
A striking and famous feature of the English landscape, Dartmoor is a beautiful place, with a sense of wildness and mystery. This book provides a new perspective on an important aspect of Dartmoor's past. Its focus is transhumance: the seasonal transfer of grazing animals to different pastures. In the Middle Ages, intensive practical use was made of Dartmoor's resources. Its extensive moorlands provided summer pasture for thousands of cattle from the Devon lowlands, which flowed in a seasonal...
Field Guide to the Common Grasses of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska
by Iralee Barnard
Once covered by wild grasses, America's heartland is by nature a grassland, populated with plants whose ecological importance, practical value and subtle beauty we are only now beginning to comprehend. Of the 3,000 species of wild plants in Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska, in the heart of the heartland, only two of every ten are grasses and in some prairies just one or two of these can account for 80-90 percent of the ground cover. It is these major wild grasses, the native and the naturalised, th...
The Lowland Heathland Management Handbook (English nature science, No 8)
by G.H. Gimmingham