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  • Large-Scale Traps of the Great Basin

    by Bryan Hockett, Eric Dillingham, Clifford Alpheus Shaw, Mark O'Brien ...
    Series series Peopling of the Americas Publications
    Early hunter-gatherers in North America spent significant time and energy to secure a reliable food supply. One means of doing so involved the use of large-scale traps—rock and/or wood features constructed through group or communal effort to trap or ambush migrating artiodactyls such as bighorn sheep or pronghorn antelope. Designed to concentrate large numbers of prey animals for easier slaughter, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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    A Journey Through Time

    by Sydney Cannings, Richard Cannings, JoAnne Nelson ...
    This book tells the story of the province’s geology and the history of its living creatures. The first edition of Geology of British Columbia,, with its accessible but rigorous science, struck a chord with readers. Since it was first published, theories about plate tectonics and the geological history of British Columbia have evolved, and this new edition reflects the current thinking. This book ... Read more

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  • The Golden Spruce

    A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed

    by John Vaillant ...
    A tale of obsession so fierce that a man kills the thing he loves most: the only giant golden spruce on earth.When a shattered kayak and camping gear are found on an uninhabited island in the Pacific Northwest, they reignite a mystery surrounding a shocking act of protest. Five months earlier, logger-turned-activist Grant Hadwin had plunged naked into a river in British Columbia's Queen Charlotte ... Read more

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  • Bug Out

    The Complete Plan for Escaping a Catastrophic Disaster Before It's Too Late

    by Scott B. Williams ...
    Learn to prep your home and family to survive sudden catastrophe—from floods and fires to pandemics and terror attacks—with this practical guide.Cataclysmic events strike sleepy towns and major cities every year. Ordinary residents suddenly find themselves in scenarios where they must evacuate immediately or perishing in rising waters, raging fires, or other life-threatening conditions. Being ... Read more

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  • American Serengeti

    The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains

    by Dan Flores ...
    Winner: Western Heritage Book AwardSpur Award FinalistStubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book AwardAmerica’s Great Plains once possessed one of the grandest wildlife spectacles of the world, equaled only by such places as the Serengeti, the Masai Mara, or the veld of South Africa. Pronghorn antelope, gray wolves, bison, coyotes, wild horses, and grizzly bears: less than two hundred years ago ... Read more

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  • Where the Wild Things Were

    Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators

    by William Stolzenburg ...
    For years, predators like snow leopards and white-tipped sharks have been disappearing from the top of the food chain, largely as a result of human action. Science journalist Will Stolzenburg reveals why and how their absence upsets the delicate balance of the world's environment. ... Read more

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  • Ancient Places

    People and Landscape in the Emerging Northwest

    by Jack Nisbet ...
    From a master of regional and natural history comes a collection of essays that reveals how the Pacific Northwest shaped the people—and how the people shaped the landDrawing on a range of personal research, author Jack Nisbet engages some of the iconic images in Northwest history: from fossil riches to ice age floods; from the Willamette Meteorite to the 1872 Earthquake; from up-and-down mining ... Read more

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  • Firestorm

    How Wildfire Will Shape Our Future

    by Edward Struzik ...
    **"Frightening...Firestorm comes alive when Struzik discusses the work of offbeat scientists." —New York Times Book Review"Comprehensive and compelling." —Booklist**"A powerful message." —Kirkus"Should be required reading." —Library JournalFor two months in the spring of 2016, the world watched as wildfire ravaged the Canadian town of Fort McMurray. Firefighters named the fire “th... ... Read more

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  • Prairie

    A Natural History

    by Candace Savage ...
    Thorough, detailed, and scientifically up-to-date, Prairies: A Natural History provides a comprehensive nontechnical guide to the biology and ecology of the prairies, or the Great Plains grasslands of North America, offering a view of the past, a vision for the future, and a clear focus on the present. With a total area of more than 3.5 million square kilometers (500,000 in Canada and the ... Read more

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  • Quetico

    Near to Nature's Heart

    by Jon Nelson ...
    Quetico Park in northwestern Ontario celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2009. Long-recognized as a gem among parks, Quetico contains some of the largest stands of old-growth red and white pine in Canada , as well as a diversity of fascinating lichens, carnivorous plants in specialized habitats.The author presents an insightful look into Quetico's natural history as he examines the adapations that ... Read more

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  • Wild New World

    The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

    by Dan Flores ...
    **Winner of the 2023 Rachel Carson Environment Book AwardWinner of the 2023 National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History LiteratureShortlisted for the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa Society Ralph Waldo Emerson AwardA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2022A deep-time history of animals and humans in North America, by the best-selling and award-winning author of Coyote America.**In 1908, near Folsom, ... Read more

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  • Rescuing the Planet

    Protecting Half the Land to Heal the Earth

    by Tony Hiss ...
    The award-winning author of The Experience of Place delivers an "upbeat and engaging account of the remarkable progress being made to preserve vast wild spaces for animals to roam" (The Wall Street Journal)—and an urgent call to protect 50 percent of the earth's land by 2050—thereby saving millions of its species.Beginning in the vast North American Boreal Forest that stretches through Canada, and ... Read more

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