From Coastal Wilderness to Fruited Plain - A History of Environmental Change in Temperate North America from 1500 to the Present (Hardcover)

From Coastal Wilderness to Fruited Plain is an account of the making of the American landscape following European settlement. It starts with "virgin" forests and grasslands of the central and northeastern United States, and successively documents the clearance and fragmentation of the region's woodlands, the harvest of the forest and its game, the plowing of prairies and the draining of wetlands. The Native American, the trapper, the farmer and the lumberman all benefited from the land and its resources; the degree to which their activities altered the soil, the climate, the natural plant and animal communities, and the water cycle is examined here.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 1994
First published:	1994
Authors:	Gordon G. Whitney
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	488
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-39452-9
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Management of land & natural resources Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Ecological science, the Biosphere
LSN:	0-521-39452-X
Barcode:	9780521394529

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