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Winner of the George Perkins Marsh Award, American Society for Environmental History
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Making Salmon Makes Us Human.......2003-01-03
There's your text books on salmon, and there's required reading.
Of the 300-odd salmon titles, Making Salmon is one of those you
must read. Like First Fish, First People, Making Salmon is about
the human side of the fishery, its evolution and confabulation
as a fought-over resource. Absolutely fascinating history, you
realize right away that nobody has an absolute moral high ground
in the salmon debate. Everything is allied against its survival,
and yet magically, miraculously, the salmon continue to return.
Like Mountain in the Clouds, put Making Salmon on your booklist.
Understates negative impact of logging.......2001-11-06
Mr. Taylor accurately identifies most of the causes of the salmon population crisis facing Washington state, Oregon, Alaska, and British Columbia. And he is dead on in his assessment of the impact of farm fisheries on salmon ecology.
The book grossly understates, however, the impact of logging on salmon habitat. Without canopy to cool streams, temperature-sensitive salmon simply cannot spawn successfully. And let's not overlook the role that clear-cutting plays in causing erosion, sedimentation, and flooding. It's true that salmon ecology can still suffer from genetic contamination by farm fish, point-source and non-point-source pollution, illegal overfishing on the high seas, legal overfishing in fresh water, damming, and overuse of water by irrigators and developers. But let's not downplay the egregious impact of logging.
Swimming Against the Current.......2000-05-11
Making Salmon is the definitive work on the problems facing the salmon fishery of the Pacific Northwest. For as long as man has lived he has exploited the salmon. Joseph Taylor takes the reader on a journey through time as he leads us step by step through the decline of these once great fish. There is plenty of culpability to go around. Foresters, developers, commercial fisherman, native Americans, even sport fishermen all come in for their share of blame. Although focusing on Oregon, Taylor's work is easily transferable anywhere salmon swim, from Alaska to California.
Extremely well documented (fully a third of the book is taken up with notes and other addenda) Making Salmon is occasionally dry but never dull. What is most dramatic about this story is the resiliency of the salmon. Time and time again they manage to survive despite our best efforts to save them!
Regardless of where you stand on the issue of dams, hatcheries, consumption or conservation, you will find merit in this work. Making Salmon is a must read for anyone interested in the rivers and fisheries of the Northwest.
Swimming Against the Current.......2000-03-30
As long as man has lived in the Pacific Northwest he has exploited the salmon. In this thorough history of the travails of the pacific salmon, Joseph Taylor does not hesitate to mince words or point the finger of blame, and there is plenty of blame to go around. Native Americans, commercial fishermen, loggers, farmers, sport fishermen, politicians, the states, the feds, the hatcheries, and others, all share the responsibility for the decline of these great fish.
Although focusing on Oregon, MAKING SALMON is easily transferable anywhere Pacific salmon exist, from California to Alaska. Extremely well documented, (fully a third of the book is taken up with notes and other addenda) MAKING SALMON takes the reader step by step through the last two centuries of development in the Northwest and what that has meant to the salmon fishery there. Taylor paints an excellent history of failure and simplistic answers to a complex problem. What comes through, as most intriguing, is the resiliency of the salmon. They somehow manage to survive despite our best efforts to save them. Resiliency should not be confused with immortality however.
Not always an easy read, MAKING SALMON nonetheless remains essential to anyone wishing to better understand the plight of the Pacific salmon or who is interested in the fine detail of what happens when man and nature collide.
The definitive history of the Northwest salmon crisis.......2000-02-06
Joseph Taylor's award-winning history of the Northwest salmon crisis is the best book to date on this important topic. No other study is as well researched or beautifully written as MAKING SALMON. Taylor, who teaches environmental and Western United States history at Iowa State University, traces the historical decline of salmon runs throughout the Pacific Northwest, focusing primarily on Oregon. His argument--that while many have claimed to speak for salmon, most have actually articulated their own needs instead--takes the current debate beyond the politics of blame. Understanding the complex social and environmental history of the "salmon crisis," he argues, is essential to thinking more clearly about the future of our region's fisheries. Most impressive is his critique of the role hatcheries have played in diminishing Northwest salmon runs. Science and technology, he concludes, have not always saved nature from human abuses. Abundant illustrations, detailed maps, and a rich bibliography round out the book. There are many titles that explore the decline of salmon in the Pacific Northwest. None address the issue as artfully and intelligently as MAKING SALMON. It is required reading for anyone who cares about the future of Northwest salmon or the people who depend upon them.
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In the Guadalupe Dunes, 170 miles north of Los Angeles and 250 miles south of San Francisco, an oil spill persisted unattended for 38 years. Over the period 1990-1996, the national press devoted 504 stories to the Exxon Valdez accident and a mere nine to the Guadalupe spill--even though the latter is most likely the nation’s largest recorded oil spill. Although it was known to oil workers in the field where it originated, to visiting regulators, and to locals who frequented the beach, the Guadalupe spill became troubling only when those involved could no longer view the sight and smell of petroleum as normal. This book recounts how this change in perception finally took place after nearly four decades and what form the response took.
Taking a sociological perspective, Thomas Beamish examines the organizational culture of the Unocal Corporation (whose oil fields produced the leakage), the interorganizational response of regulatory agencies, and local interpretations of the event. He applies notions of social organization, social stability, and social inertia to the kind of environmental degradation represented by the Guadalupe spill. More important, he uses the Guadalupe Dunes case as the basis for a broader study of environmental "blind spots." He argues that many of our most pressing pollution problems go unacknowledged because they do not cause large-scale social disruption or dramatic visible destruction of the sort that triggers responses. Finally, he develops a model of social accommodation that helps explain why human systems seem inclined to do nothing as trouble mounts.
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Marine Mammal Research: Conservation beyond Crisis
Timothy J. Ragen
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Marine mammal conservation presents a number of challenges for scientists and other stakeholders, especially using natural resources in ways that avoid crisis management. Scientists play the special role of providing vital information to decision makers to help them understand long-term consequences of their actions and avoid crises before they develop. The contributors to this visionary work look beyond the current crises to present a compelling argument about how science, if conducted properly, can provide insights that minimize crisis management and implement more anticipatory action.
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NEW WORLD PARROTS CRISIS PB
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Hear Him Roar: A Novel
Andrew Wingfield
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A cougar attacks a jogger in the suburbs of a Western city. Charlie Sayers, a wildlife biologist facing retirement, is drawninto the search for the lion. He gets caught up in the conflict between wildlife habitat and an increasingly developed environment as, teetering between crisis and farce, he tries to piece together the puzzle of his own life.
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A great read for anyone.......2006-08-14
This novel is well written and captures the reader from the beginning to the very end. Whether you are a nature-lover or a person who simply wants to read a thought-provoking book, this is an excellent read. "Hear Him Roar" not only makes the reader think about issues regarding the balance between humans and nature, but also follows the transformation of Charlie Sayers as he learns what life means to him. The descriptions of the landscape paint a clear picture of the California setting and draw the reader into the beauty of nature. I recommend this novel to anyone who has an interest in nature or a desire to learn more about the delicate balance of our lives.
Predatory Natures.......2005-12-17
CharlieSayers, the narrator of Hear Him Roar by Andrew Wingfield, is recently retired, reluctantly occupied with a sense of mortality, and gradually consumed by the predatory aspects of nature that come into focus for him when a cougar kills a female jogger in the suburban foothills of the Sierra mountains of California. The novel's subject is a confluence of place and character -the mauled woman and Charlie's own haunted, remorseful conscience. A deeply ironic parallel exists between the lactating cougar stealthily protecting its newborn and the moribund Sayers raging against his failure to protect his son from self-immolation. The innocent predator without and the guilty predator within.
Supported by caring women and touched by his daughter's guru-mentor, Sayers slowly begins to see the connection between this ghostly cougar and his own impotent anger against mortality as he struggles with the recurring memories of the son he and his wife drove to an untimely death in the frozen bosom of the Sierra mountains. Together they had thrown the boy's identity into doubt and seeded a fatal passion to prove himself worthy.
There is less dimension to the women in the novel. They are less embattled. The sacrificial son and the matriarchal jogger who fought for her life so that her children would remember her well both dissolve fitfully into memory, to be retrieved only by the vision and the words of Charlie Sayers. As a young father he had rejected his son's attempts to engage him in loving play which could have renewed his moribund spirit and healed the pain of his own orphaned childhood. Instead, he steeled the cruelty he had so bitterly learned and unleashed it on the apostolic son now in his care. The conflict implicit in this re-enactment of his own childhood is put to rest in his understanding the meaning of the jogger's death: "That woman died and I had come more fully to life. It didn't seem fair, but what could I do." That is the story he must tell, and in its telling does he begin to heal.
stephen karpowitz phd
Ordering.......2005-11-29
Not sure why Amazon says 4 to 6 weeks for shipping; maybe it's an error they will correct in time. In any case, one could order this book directly from the publisher and it would ship within 48 hours. 800-621-2736.
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Ghost Bears: Exploring The Biodiversity Crisis
R. Edward Grumbine
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In Ghost Bears, R. Edward Grumbine looks at the implications of the widespread loss of biological diversity, and explains why our species-centered approach to environmental protection will ultimately fail. Using the fate of the endangered grizzly bear - the "ghost bear" - to explore the causes and effects of species loss and habitat destruction, Grumbine presents a clear and inviting introduction to the biodiversity crisis and to the new science of conservation biology.
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Read a beautifully written book about a devastating process........1999-08-25
R. Edward Grumbine is a storyteller. Above is a book that discusses the current crisis regarding the environment, how we got there, and where we are headed. Swirled together are stories of natural (and personal) discoveries with political and scientific explanations. His ability to cover these ranges of interest only make the reality of this subject even more shocking. This is as much poetry as it is a textbook. It is a wake up call, and a call to arms. I highly recommend this book for those who choose the wonder and beauty of the wilderness, and for those who are afraid of a world without it.
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Fisheries Management in Crisis ("Fishing News" Books)
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The Living Planet in Crisis
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With a foreword by Edward O. Wilson, this book brings together internationally known experts from the scientific, societal, and conservation policy areas who address policy responses to the problem of biodiversity loss: how to determine conservation priorities in a scientific fashion, how to weigh the long-term, often hidden value of conservation against the more immediate value of land development, the need for education in areas of rapid population growth, and how lack of knowledge about biodiversity can impede conservation efforts.
United in their belief that conservation of biological diversity is a primary concern of humankind, the contributing authors address the full scope of global biodiversity and its decline -- the threatened marine life and extinction of many mammals in the modern era in relation to global patterns of development, and the implications of biodiversity loss for human health, agricultural productivity, and the economy. The Living Planet in Crisis is the result of a conference of the American Museum of Natural History's Center for Biodiversity and Conservation.
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The Spice of Life: Biodiversity and the Extinction Crisis
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