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More than ever before, there is widespread interest in studying
bumble bees and the critical role they play in our ecosystems.
"Bumble Bees of North America" is the first comprehensive guide to
North American bumble bees to be published in more than a century.
Richly illustrated with color photographs, diagrams, range maps,
and graphs of seasonal activity patterns, this guide allows amateur
and professional naturalists to identify all 46 bumble bee species
found north of Mexico and to understand their ecology and changing
geographic distributions.
The book draws on the latest molecular research, shows the
enormous color variation within species, and guides readers through
the many confusing convergences between species. It draws on a
large repository of data from museum collections and presents
state-of-the-art results on evolutionary relationships,
distributions, and ecological roles. Illustrated keys allow
identification of color morphs and social castes.
A landmark publication, "Bumble Bees of North America" sets the
standard for guides and the study of these important insects.The
best guide yet to the 46 recognized bumble bee species in North
America north of MexicoUp-to-date taxonomy includes previously
unpublished results Detailed distribution maps Extensive keys
identify the many color patterns of species
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
The People's School is a comprehensive history of Oregon State
University, placing the institution's story in the context of
state, regional, national, and international history. Rather than
organizing the narrative around institutional presidencies, Robbins
examines the broader context of events, such as wars and economic
depressions, that affected life on the Corvallis campus. Agrarian
revolts in the last quarter of the nineteenth century affected
every Western state, including Oregon. The Spanish-American War,
the First World War, the Great Depression of the 1930s, and the
Second World War disrupted institutional life, influenced
enrollment, curricular strategies, and the number of faculty and
staff. Peacetime events, such as Oregon's tax policies, also
circumscribed course offerings, hiring and firing, and the
allocation of funds to departments, schools, and colleges. This
contextual approach is not to suggest that university presidents
are unimportant. Benjamin Arnold (1872-1892), appointed president
of Corvallis College by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
served well beyond the date (1885) when the State of Oregon assumed
control of the agricultural college. Robbins uses central
administration records and grass-roots sources-local and state
newspapers, student publications (The Barometer, The Beaver), and
multiple and wide-ranging materials published in the university's
digitized ScholarsArchive@OSU, a source for the scholarly work of
faculty, students, and materials related to the institution's
mission and research activities. Other voices-extracurricular
developments, local and state politics, campus reactions to
national crises-provide intriguing and striking addendums to the
university's history.
The H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest is a slice of classic Oregon:
due east of Eugene in the Cascade Mountains, the Andrews Forest
comprises almost 16,000 acres of the Lookout Creek watershed. The
landscape is steep, with hills and deep valleys and cold,
fast-running streams. The densely forested landscape includes
cedar, hemlock, and moss-draped ancient Douglas fir trees. One of
eighty-one USDA experimental forests, the Andrews is administered
cooperatively by USFS, OSU, and the Willamette National Forest.
While many Oregonians may think of the Andrews simply as a good
place for a hike, research conducted there has profoundly reshaped
Forest Service management policies and contributed to our
understanding of healthy forests. In A Place for Inquiry, A Place
for Wonder, William Robbins turns his attention to the
long-overlooked Andrews Forest and argues for its importance to
environmental science and policy. From its founding in 1948, the
experimental forest has been the site of wide-ranging research.
Beginning with postwar studies on the conversion of old-growth
timber to fast-growing young stands, research at the Andrews
shifted in the next few decades to long-term ecosystem
investigations that focus on climate, streamflow, water quality,
vegetation succession, biogeochemical cycling, and effects of
forest management. The Andrews has thus been at the center of a
dramatic shift in federal timber practices from industrial,
intensive forest management policies to strategies emphasizing
biodiversity and healthy ecosystems.
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