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BL
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1010415
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b764785
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| Main Entry
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Adams, Jonathan S.,1961-
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| Title & Author
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The future of the wild : : radical conservation for a crowded world /\ Jonathan S. Adams.
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| Publication Statement
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Boston :: Beacon Press,, ©2006.
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xxiii, 267 pages ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0807085103
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: 0807085375
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: 9780807085103
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: 9780807085370
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-256).
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| Contents
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pt. I. Thinking big : A parliament of owls ; Do big things run the world? ; Save some of everything -- pt. II. Science and community : Conservation in exurbia: Florida and California ; Appointment in Sonora ; The native home of hope ; Save enough to last: Florida and the Everglades -- pt. III. Yellowstone and the best hope of earth ; Blind men and elephants ; Guarding the golden goose.
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| Abstract
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In this book, biologist Adams explains a new approach to conservation. The main strategy behind it involves using the latest in conservation science along with the desires of local communities to protect the places where people live and work. In this way, each small success moves conservationists closer toward creating huge protected landscapes large enough to support animals like bison and wolves. Only with freedom to roam through and between these lands, using wilderness corridors, can such large animals flourish. Adams provides numerous examples of how this new conservation is succeeding around the country: cooperative ranchers work together to preserve wilderness in Arizona; activists fight the encroachment of big business on the Florida Everglades; and a maverick scientist struggles to create safe passageways for pumas in California's overpopulated Orange County. Each example proves the benefits of combining the latest scientific studies with practical community organizing and sound economic planning. Through these examples and important conservation history, Adams shows how we can realistically protect wildlands despite our growing numbers.--From publishers description.
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Conservation biology.
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Ecosystem management-- Citizen participation.
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Nature conservation-- North America.
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Artenschutz
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Bürgerbeteiligung
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Conservation biology.
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Ecosystem management-- Citizen participation.
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Nature conservation.
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Naturschutz
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Conservation of Natural Resources-- North America.
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Nordamerika
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North America.
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| Dewey Classification
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333.95/16
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| LC Classification
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QH75.A345 2006
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