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The Trees Are Speaking
Dispatches from the Salmon Forests
A call to rethink our relationship with forests
Ancient and carbon-rich, old-growth forests play an irreplaceable role in the environment. Their complex ecosystems clean the air, purify the water, cool the planet, and teem with life....
ISBN: 9780295753676
more detailsChina's Camel Country
Livestock and Nation-Building at a Pastoral Frontier
How animal conservation became a defense against cultural erasure
China today positions itself as a model of state-led environmentalism. On the country’s arid rangelands, grassland conservation policies have targeted pastoralists and their animals, blamed for causing...
ISBN: 9780295752433
more details50 Keystone Fauna Species of the Pacific Northwest
A Pocket Guide
A compact, user-friendly guide to ecologically significant animal species of the Northwest Coast
A keystone species is an organism that defines and supports an entire ecosystem, filling a vital ecological niche. Without these species, ecosystems would...
ISBN: 9780295752891
more details50 Keystone Flora Species of the Pacific Northwest
A Pocket Guide
A compact, user-friendly guide to ecologically significant plant species of the Northwest Coast
A keystone species is an organism that defines and supports an entire ecosystem, filling a vital ecological niche. Without these species, ecosystems would...
ISBN: 9780295752884
more detailsBetween the Tides in California
Exploring Beaches and Tidepools
A fascinating guide to the secret worlds of the intertidal zone
The vast and diverse California coast is an awe-inspiring place of exploration and discovery, full of life forms that are shockingly unfamiliar. Intertidal fish that...
ISBN: 9780295752372
more detailsCapturing Glaciers
A History of Repeat Photography and Global Warming
Explores the photography of climate change
Photographs do not simply speak for themselves. Their meanings are built through interpretive frameworks that shift over time. Today, photographs of receding glaciers are one of the most well recognized...
ISBN: 9780295752020
more detailsSpirit Whales and Sloth Tales
Fossils of Washington State
A guide to discovering the fascinating natural history beneath your feet
From trilobites near the Idaho border and primitive horses on the Columbia Plateau to giant bird tracks near Bellingham and curious bear-like beasts on the...
ISBN: 9780295752327
more detailsHatched
Dispatches from the Backyard Chicken Movement
2022 Independent Publisher Book Award for Animals/Pets (Gold)
“Chickens are a lot more mainstream than veganism and a little bit like kombucha: super weird twenty years ago, now somewhat popular and made even more so by...
ISBN: 9780295752198
more detailsMenacing Environments
Ecohorror in Contemporary Nordic Cinema
Analyzes a film genre's confrontation of a regional identity
Known for their progressive environmental policies and nature-loving citizens, Nordic countries also produce what may seem a counterintuitive film genre: ecohorror, where distinctions between humans and nature...
ISBN: 9780295751641
more detailsBellwether Histories
Animals, Humans, and US Environments in Crisis
Explores ecological crises and extinctions that have shaped US history
A multispecies history of the globalized United States, Bellwether Histories reveals how animals have been ensnared in colonialism, capitalism, and environmental destruction as human decisions created...
ISBN: 9780295751429
more detailsEdible and Medicinal Flora of the West Coast
The Pacific Northwest and British Columbia
A new edition of the best-selling field guide to plants and fungi that grow wild throughout the region
The coastal Pacific Northwest of North America is home to a multitude of edible and medicinal plant species,...
ISBN: 9780295751849
more detailsInside the World of Climate Change Skeptics
An extraordinary look into doubt, denial, and distrust
As wildfires rip across the western United States and sea levels rise along coastal cities from Louisiana to Alaska, some people nevertheless reject the mainstream scientific consensus on...
ISBN: 9780295751306
more detailsHeaven on the Half Shell
The Story of the Oyster in the Pacific Northwest
How oysters shaped the environment, cultures, and economies of the Northwest
Heaven on the Half Shell offers a thoroughly researched and richly illustrated history of the Pacific Northwest’s beloved bivalve, the oyster. Starting with the earliest...
ISBN: 9780295750781
more detailsCherokee Earth Dwellers
Stories and Teachings of the Natural World
Second place for the 2023 Chicago Folklore Prize
A celebration of the Cherokee cosmos through creature names, stories, cultural concepts, and reflections
Ayetli gadogv—to "stand in the middle"—is at the heart of a Cherokee perspective of the...
ISBN: 9780295750187
more detailsBetween the Tides in Washington and Oregon
Exploring Beaches and Tidepools
Take a closer look into the secret worlds of the intertidal zone
A spectacular variety of life flourishes between the ebb and flow of high and low tide. Anemones talk to each other through chemical signaling,...
ISBN: 9780295749969
more detailsHomewaters
A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound
Not far from Seattle skyscrapers live 150-year-old clams, more than 250 species of fish, and underwater kelp forests as complex as any terrestrial ecosystem. For millennia, vibrant Coast Salish communities have lived beside these waters...
ISBN: 9780295751009
more detailsInvasive Flora of the West Coast
British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest
A compact, full-colour field guide to the growing number of invasive plant species spreading across coastal BC and the Pacific Northwest, highlighting their hazards and uses.
The spread of invasive plant species is a growing concern...
ISBN: 9780295750996
more detailsThe Grizzly in the Driveway
The Return of Bears to a Crowded American West
Confronts the unintended consequences of a conservation success story
Four decades ago, the areas around Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks sheltered the last few hundred surviving grizzlies in the Lower 48 states. Protected by the Endangered...
ISBN: 9780295750972
more detailsAfter the Blast
The Ecological Recovery of Mount St. Helens
On May 18, 1980, people all over the world watched with awe and horror as Mount St. Helens erupted. Fifty-seven people were killed and hundreds of square miles of what had been lush forests and...
ISBN: 9780295750712
more detailsThe Great Quake Debate
The Crusader, the Skeptic, and the Rise of Modern Seismology
In the first half of the twentieth century, when seismology was still in in its infancy, renowned geologist Bailey Willis faced off with fellow high-profile scientist Robert T. Hill in a debate with life-or-death consequences...
ISBN: 9780295750729
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