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Forests
  • Format
  • HARDCOVER
  • Authored by: Julie Kerr Casper, Ph.D.
  • From the Series: Natural Resources
  • Trim Size: 7-3/8 x 9-1/4
  • ISBN-10: 0816063559
  • ISBN-13: 978-0-8160-6355-0
  • Status: In Stock
  • List Price: $39.50
  • Imprint: Chelsea House
  • Published: 05/01/2007
  • Dewey Number: 333.75
  • Reading Level: Grades 6-12
  • Pages: 208

Summary

This volume focuses on the many aspects that make rain forests, temperate forests, and boreal forests such valuable natural resources and why we cannot live without them.

Coverage includes

  • Valuable resources provided by forests
  • Forest wildlife
  • Indigenous peoples and their unique and irreplaceable cultures
  • The multitude of botanical resources stored in forests
  • The diverse uses of forests
  • Serious present-day impacts that are killing our forests and how to best manage them
  • Endangered species and the threats they face
  • Future issues and scientific discoveries
  • The simple things everyone can do to help maintain healthy forest ecosystems.

Specifications

Full-color photographs and illustrations. Sidebars. Further reading. Glossary. Appendixes. Index.

About the Author(s)

Julie Kerr Casper, Ph.D., has been an Earth scientist for the Bureau of Land Management for nearly 30 years. She is the author of several award-winning novels, articles, and stories.

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