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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Dan Imhoff; Jo Ann Baumgartner; Wild Farm Alliance. |
ISBN: | 9780970950031 0970950039 |
OCLC Number: | 76941871 |
Notes: | "Produced by the Wild Farm Alliance"--Title page verso. |
Description: | viii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Section 1 : Agriculture & conservation -- Conservationist and agrarian / Wendell Berry -- Tame and wild / Fred Kirschenmann & David Gould -- The oil we eat / Richard Manning -- A forest's last stand / Barbara Kingsolver -- The farmer as conservationist? / Laura L. Jackson -- Section 2 : Core issues -- Salmon stakes / Ted Williams -- When the epidemic hit the king of clones / Gary Paul Nabban & Ana Guadalupe Valenzuela-Zapata -- Wild work crew / Scott McMillion -- A grassland manifesto / Becky Weed -- Living with wolves / Luba Vangelova -- A plea for bees / Daniel Imhoff -- Making organic wild / Jo Ann Baumgartner. Section 3 : Biodiversity challenge -- A biotic view of land / Aldo Leopold -- Nature's crisis / Dave Foreman -- Context matters / Reed Noss -- Keeping track / Rick Bass -- The role of top carnivores / John Terborgh, James Estes, Paul Paquet, Katherine Ralls, Diane Boyd-Heger, Brian Miller, and Reed Noss -- Rebuilding after collapse / John Davis -- Section 4 : Society & culture -- The way we live now / Michael Pollan -- Can organic feed us all? / Brian Halweil -- Evolution of an ecolabel / Dan Kent -- Will agricultural economics change in time? / Dan Barber -- A taste for conservation / Jennifer Bogo, Angie Jabine, Gretel Schueller, David Seideman -- Contributors -- Selected resources -- Index -- Illustration credits. |
Responsibility: | edited by Daniel Imhoff and Jo Ann Baumgartner. |
Abstract:
Addresses a complex issue facing communities and cultures throughout the world: the need for heightened land stewardship and conservation in an era of diminishing natural resources.
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