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[2022]
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521 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 23 cm
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"Ancient writers observed that forests always recede as civilizations develop and grow. The great Roman poet Ovid wrote that before civilization began, "even the pine tree stood on its own very hills" but when civilization took over, "the mountain oak, the pine were felled." This happened for a simple reason: trees have been the principal fuel and building material of every society over the millennia, from the time urban areas were settled until the...
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"An air force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back to life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. These four,...
5) Forests
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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63 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 31 cm
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"Do you want to make a difference and help change the world? If the answer's yes then this book is for you! Turn the pages and discover everything you need to know about deforestation and the ways we can tackle it. From scientists and conservationists helping to protect forest creatures, to tech inventions like robot tree-planters, this book helps children aged 8 and up to discover the incredible solutions to deforestation that are being worked on...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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47 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
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Part of the nonfiction Orca Footprints series for middle readers and illustrated with color photographs. Find out how global deforestation affects the planet and what you can do to keep forests healthy for future generations.
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
239 pages ; 23 cm
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"In Worth More Standing: Poets and Activists Pay Homage to Trees, celebrated poets and activists pay homage to the ghosts of lost forests and issue a rallying cry to protect our remaining ancient giants and restore wild spaces. Themes of connection, ecology, grief, and protection are explored through poems about trees and forests written by an impressive number of influential poets, several of whom have attended the recent Fairy Creek blockades and...
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2022.
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106 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
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"Star the Elephant and his herd are searching for a new home. But when Star is separated from his family, he must journey alone into the great unknown. He'll come face to face with giant spiders, the vast ocean beyond his island, and strange humans. Can Star find his way back to his family?"--
Pub. Date
p2004, c1994
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1 videodisc (ca. 27 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Experience the sites and sounds of the jungle as you journey through the rainforests of the world. Students will learn about pollination, propagation and photosynthesis and meet diverse creatures that inhabit these regions.
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Pub. Date
2022.
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48 pages ; 30 cm
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"A picture book that tells the important story of Chico Mendes, who led the fight to protect the Amazon rainforest and demand fair treatment for the people whose livelihoods depended on it. Chico Mendes lived in the depths of the Amazon rainforest where trees grew tall and strong and wildlife roamed freely. From the age of 8, Chico worked with his father collecting sap from trees that could be sold to make rubber. Rubber tappers were very poor and...
15) Cuts
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201-?, ©1980
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1 videodisc (38 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + guide (4 p.)
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DVD-R. Set in the mill communities of the Pacific Northwest. Through archival photographs, interviews, and sequences in and outside the mills, the documentary focuses on the working lives of shingle sawyers. Owners push for higher production, workers accept speed-ups, piece-rate wages, and danger as a means to their livelihood and as a definition of who they are, and forests disappear...[The film is] about clear cuts and the long-term environmental...
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[2023]
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xx, 408 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm
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"Deep in the heart of the Amazon, the city of Rondon do Par̀, Brazil, lived for decades in the shadow of land barons, or fazendeiros, who maintained control of the region through unscrupulous land grabs and egregious human rights violations. They razed and burned the jungle, expelled small-scale farmers and Indigenous tribes from their lands, and treated their farmhands as slaves--all with impunity. The only true opposition came from Rondon's small...
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