Summary: In 1906, Teddy Roosevelt created the nation's first National Monument destination. The purpose was to preserve all of America's significant pieces of history. Now viewers can take a journey through the ecology, geology, and beauty of the Great Plains, the geologic West, and the historic South in an adventure never to be forgotten.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: Blu/DVD 973 America'sPayne, Stefanie
Summary: "Journey through all 62 parks, learning about the rare animals, the incredible plants, and the ... history of each one"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1976
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 577 STOLeopold, Aldo
Summary: Nature writings of Aldo Leopold, one of the foremost conservationist of our century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1968
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.73 LEOPorter, Eliot
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwich House 1987
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973 PORSummary: In 1906, Teddy Roosevelt created the nation's first National Monument destination. The purpose was to preserve all of America's significant pieces of history. Now viewers can take a journey through the ecology, geology, and beauty of the Great Plains, the geologic West, and the historic South in an adventure never to be forgotten.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3 AmericasSummary: Since 1962, National Wildlife is the flagship publication of the National Wildlife Federation, the country’s largest conservation organization. It is designed to inform NWF’s members and other readers about key issues relating to the nation's natural resources and environment. Each article is illustrated by spectacular color images of wildlife and natural areas, taken by the world’s top nature...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Wildlife Federation 1963
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Williams, Terry Tempest
Summary: America's national parks are breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why more than 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now Terry Tempest Williams presents The Hour of Land, a literary celebration of our national parks, an exploration of what they mean to us and what we mean to them. From the Grand Tetons in Wyoming to Acadia in Maine to Big...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910 WILKlinkenborg, Verlyn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2002
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Summary: Verlyn Klinkenborg's regular column, The Rural Life, is one of the most read and beloved in the New York Times. Since 1997, he has written eloquently on every aspect, large and small, of life on his upstate New York farm, including his animals, the weather and landscape, and the trials and rewards of physical labor, as well as broader issues about agriculture and land use behind farming today....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books Llc 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.73 KLIPierce, Daniel S.
Summary: "In this book, Daniel S. Pierce examines land use in the Smokies over the centuries, describing the pageant of peoples who have inhabited these mountains and then focusing on the twentieth-century movement to create a national park." "Drawing on previously unexplored archival materials, Pierce presents the most balanced account available of the development of the park. He tells how park...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Tennessee Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976 PIEMuir, John
Summary: "Like Muir himself, Essential Muir packs an astounding range of experience into a lithe frame: ecstatic yet scientific descriptions of Yosemite; the heartrending tale of that "wee, hairy, sleekit beastie," Stickeen; reflections on the society of Eskimos; Muir's touching tribute, after a lifetime of wonder, to the mighty baobob trees of Africa; and more. Fred D. White's selection from Muir's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heyday Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.7 MUITeale, Edwin Way
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 577.23 TEABrown, Tom
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.5 BROStutz, Bruce.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Travel StutzMuir, John
Summary: "In a lifetime of exploration, writing, and passionate political activism, John Muir made himself America's most eloquent spokesman for the mystery and majesty of the wilderness. A crucial figure in the creation of our national parks system and a visionary prophet of environmental awareness, he was also a master of natural description who evoked with unique power and intimacy the untrammeled...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 1997
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SC MuirMuir, John
Contents: The story of my boyhood and youth -- A thousand mile walk to the Gulf -- My first summer in the Sierra -- Travels in Alaska -- Stickeen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Canongate Classics 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MUIR, JOHN MUIOlson, Sigurd F.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.73 OLSBell, Samantha
Summary: "These places are like nowhere else on earth. What will you find? This title invites readers to explore the Everglades, peer into a Hawaiian volcano, and trek through the Petrified Forest in Arizona. Part of our 21st Century Skills Library, this series introduces concepts of natural sciences and social studies centered around a sense of adventure."
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Summary: "A gripping new history celebrating the remarkable heroes of the Johnstown Flood--the deadliest flood in U.S. history--from NBC host and legendary weather authority Al Roker. Central Pennsylvania, May 31, 1889: After a deluge of rain--nearly a foot in less than twenty-four hours--swelled the Little Conemaugh River, panicked engineers watched helplessly as swiftly rising waters threatened to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 974.8 ROKKauffman, Jonathan
Summary: An enlightening narrative history--an entertaining fusion of Tom Wolfe and Michael Pollan--that traces the colorful origins of once unconventional foods and the diverse fringe movements, charismatic gurus, and counterculture elements that brought them to the mainstream and created a distinctly American cuisine. Food writer Jonathan Kauffman journeys back more than half a century--to the 1960s...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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Summary: The incredible story of a flood of near-biblical proportions-its destruction, its heroes and victims, and how it shaped America's natural-disaster policies for the next century. Fourteen states in all, along with every major and minor river east of the Mississippi.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2013