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America's Forested Wetlands: From Wasteland to Valued Resource

America's Forested Wetlands: From Wasteland to Valued Resource

Stine, Jeffrey K.

Paperback

Series: Forest History Society Issues

Real EstateAgricultureEnvironmental Studies

ISBN10: 0890300712
ISBN13: 9780890300718
Publisher: Forest History Society
Published: Jan 1 2008
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.27 Width: 6.02 Depth: 8.98
Language: English
From the darkest, most forbidding swamp to the smallest soggy bog at the side of a housing development, wetlands provide invaluable ecological services to life on earth. Yet, prior to the 1930s, few people worried about the mounting loss of these essential landscapes.

America's Forested Wetlands chronicles the history of American attitudes and actions toward the ambiguous transitional areas between dry land and open water. From the clear-cutting of cypress swamps and the wholesale filling and draining of marshes and bottomlands to the growing recognition of how these lands contribute to flood control, water quality, and biological diversity and on to today's energetic political debates over no net loss policies designed to protect, enhance, restore, or recreate wetlands, the story involves increasing human understanding and appreciation of an important but limited resource.

America's Forested Wetlands addresses one of the most persistent and contentious issues in natural resources management and offers an essential primer for landowners, teachers, students, journalists, and government decision makers and advisors.

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