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1985Features: Bonaire Marine Park - a commitment to conservation; Bright colors in the realm of eternal night; 'ah, for the good old days at sea'; Deadly but not dangerous; Monterey Bay Aquarium - exploring the bay on shore; The shark - more threatened than threatening?; Lights of the Port of New York - Part 1. Sound copy. Book
1985Features: Florida artificial reefs - alive and growing; Upside-down jellyfish; Mystery muds of Great Bahamas Bank; Pugnacious bicolor demoiselle; Out on a limb - white-tern style; Lights of the Port of New York - part II; Marine Hatcheries - a myth that survived and thrived; Crossroads of the ancient world - Israel's archaeological heritage. Sound copy. Book
1986Features: Talking with dolphins; If chalk could talk - a sea story over 100 million years old; Portugal's stamps - sea species under threat; The Gulper Eel and its knotty problem; Cape Cod's sister sentries; Cuttlebone - the buoyant skeleton; Ocean-bottom mapping in the 1980s; Skimming for dinner - the feeding behaviour of black skimmers. Sound copy. Book
1986Features: Diving in an octopus's garden; Asteroid impacts, seafloor sediments, and extinction of the dinosaurs; the Sheepfold; Red Tide - A recurrent marine phenomenon; Megamouth - new species of shark; Why Cadiz must be saved; Anastasia and the reefs of sand. Sound copy. Book
1986Features: Columbia - glacier in retreat; whales have riders; California's fish and oil - conflict over coexistence; Life in a sunless sea; the oldest shell game; Remember the Maine?; Boobies and frigates - strange bedfellows. Sound copy. Book
1986Features: Oregon's sea lion cave; the topsy-turvy world of capillary waves; Ciguatera - Scourge of seafood lovers; Aggressive behavior in reef corals - a stragegy for survival?; Dredging up old myths; Postal coup for Palau; Antifreeze in polar fishes; Red abalone - the treasure off California's north coast. Covers taped together else a sound copy. Book
1987Features: The rise and fall of Neptune's kingdom; Krill - food of the future?; Captain Scammon - the whaler who turned naturalist; Egg thieves of Playa Grande; Traditional Squid fishing in the Azores; Starting the wandering gooneys; Not so naked ancestors. Sound copy. Book
1987Features: Alaskan Marine Life and the Eskiimo - through art; Tails of whales and fins, too; Vancouver Island's undersea kaleidoscope - a diver's paradise; Remote Sensing - adding to your knowledge of oceans; the strangest case of the freshwater marine fishes; Forest in the dunes; Brine Shrimp - Curious crustaceans; rings on coral fingers. Sound copy. Book
1987Features: What's in a cave?; Painting with pesticides - the controversial organotin paints; Stars with thousands of feet (star fish); The see-through salp; Lighthouse reef - a Caribbean atoll; Coralline algae - pink plants of fhe seafloor; Oceanography on stamps - the Christmas Island Phosphate Company. Sound copy. Book
1988Features: Marine mirages; The anemonefishes of the Indo-Pacific; Ancient ocean rocks - high in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains; The dolphins of San Pedro Channel; Shipwreck legislation - legality vs. morality; Underwater pharmacy; Simon Lake and his diving boat. Nice copy. Book
1988Features: Salad from the sea - cultivating kombu in Hokkaido; The influence of the sea upon our language; Caught in conflict - managers trapped in fisheries dilemma; The Pacific Walrus; RRS Discovery and the Discover investigations; beautiful broccoli of the sea; a portfolio of winners - 1988 international marine photo contest; Save the beaches. Nice copy. Book
1980136 pages. Features: Boadicea - aboard a 172-year-old fishing smack; Marine Insurance; Birchbark Canoes and a Different Drummer - canoes built from their environment; How to build the PICCOLO - a seaworthy sail and paddle canoe; How Firm a Foundation - making patterns for outside ballast; The Old Man's Sharpie - appearances can be deceiving; Alaska Packers - still going strong; Boatbuilder Clark Mills - the father of the Optimist pram; Swampscott Dories; Sewing a Patch - healing a damaged sail; How Archimedes Hauled Our Boat; Planking the MORGAN. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
2001236 pages including index. At 88 years of age, Merve Wilkinson no doubt ranks as the Moses of North American eco-forestry. His 136-acre homestead, Wildwood, situated on a lush Vancouver Island peninsula just south of Nanaimo B.C., has become the leading example of intelligent forestry on Canada's west coast and gained an international reputation as a prime example of sustainable logging. Merve, who was awarded both the Orders of British Columbia and of Canada for his life's work, is an activist of whom all Canadians should be proud. In 1999, when Wilkinson defended himself and fellow protesters in court after the standoff at Clayoquot Sound, the B.C. judge who heard the case, in a statement of unbridled respect, declared Merve "magnificently unrepentant." "In speaking out against current industrial clearcut logging practices, Merve has become a genuine Canadian hero. Uncompromising, tough, fearless, with a wonderful sense of humour, he is now an elder who inspires young people to refer to his home as Mervana. This is a story that should be read by all who care about the future and seek alternatives to our destructive ways." - Dr. David Suzuki. "Recently I had the privilege of spending a day with a most remarkable forester, Merve Wilkinson, and his wife, Ann. Since 1939 Merve has logged his 136-acre forest nine times: walk into it today and it is like walking into one of nature's cathedrals. The forest is beautiful, the old giant trees still standing, more animal species there than when he began - and no pesticides have been used.... You see it *can* be done." - Jane Goodall. Book
1996290 pages. Average wear. Binding intact. Markings, high-lighting and underlining throughout. A worthy working copy. Book
1975254 pages. Covers the history of our forests, their relationship to other forests of the world, the kind of trees that make up their present composition and their biological responses to different environments. Generously illustrated with large attractive colour photography. Some lean to spine. Average wear. Gift greetings and donation inscription upon front endpaper. Solid copy in chocolate brown boards. Book
1994267 pages including references and index. A contemporary human geography of the 'market' economies of the region usually defined by membership in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean). Deals with such topics as environment and development, plural societies, agrarian change, urbanization and primacy, natural resource development and land settlement. Prior owner's name atop half-title page. Usual amount of markings to contents. Moderate wear. Book
1995Bibliography. Glossary. Index. Possibly signed by author upon title page - name illegible. Printed on glossy stock. Colour photos. "The allowable annual cut is being frittered away with unofficial but real reservations against logging, and by unnecessary restrictions on forest practices. As a result, we are collectively going to be poorer by billions of dollars each year." - from dust jacjet. "One of the two best books on forestry - Well written - fascinating anecdotes." - from dust jacket. Light wear and soiling. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. A quality copy. Book
1973127 pages. "A handbook of pine insects made possible because of the farsighted vision of some outstanding entomologists who conceived, nurtured and encouraged the development of a survey organization that has acquired over the past 25 years a large body of knowledge and expertise on forest insects." - from Preface. Clear colour photography throughout. Average wear to covers. Contents clean, lighlty worn and unmarked. An excellent reference. Book
1990253 pages. "A collection of essays on human ecology, comprising a selection of articles written over the last decade. All of them, in one way or another, circle around the concept of Earth-as-Home-Place, an idea whose crystallization began from a chance encounter with a book back in 1947." - from preface. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Binding sound. Solid copy. Book
1993126 pages. "A review of biodiversity in Greater Victoria conducted by students in the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Victoria... The result of projects done in the summer of 1992. Written as educational material for anyone interested in their local natural environment and how it relates to the city in which they live." - from Executive Summary. Above-average wear externally. Usual library markings. Worthy reference copy. Book
1997355 pages. "Must reading for all who believe in and are willing to work for a better future." - from back cover. Light wear. Minimal high-lighting. A few spots of soiling. Tight and square. Sound copy. Book
200082 pages. Features: Animal Outings - Nonreproductive sexual behaviour has been widely observed throughout the animal kingdom... Researchers are only beginning to ask why; Child Support - A Canadian initiative to aid Thai street children; Blue-Collar Canines - Some dogs live to work... it's a family trait; Salmon Trees - a researcher's finding that trees and animals depend on salmon as much as people do has far-reaching implications for British Columbia's forestry and fisheries policies. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
1973128 pages including index and bibliography. Takes a completely fresh look at North American Indians before white technology destroyed their traditional patterns of life. The result is a fascinating introduction to a rich and complex field. Portrays Indian life and society as a human response to human problems in a natural environment. The reader will be able to appreciate how the Indian peoples went through the stages from survival to high civilization by following their development in the contexts of climate, food resources, technology, art, religion and other basic concerns. Well-used former library copy. Binding remains intact. Well-worn. Book
1998115 pages including notes. Describes the tangled maze that is our tax system, explains how we got it, and offers a novel way to fix it. Clean, bright and umarked with negligible wear. Excellent copy. Book
200044 pages. Topics include: Three pillars of operational ecoforestry; The Wildwood Initiative; Cooking the Forestry Books by Ignoring Depletion of Capital; Certification - Seeking the Right Questions; Ecological Characteristics of Inland Rainforests; Banging Heads with the Foresters; Horse Logging at Footstep Hill Farm; What's Wrong with the BC Forest Industry. Clean, bright and unmarked. Lovely copy. Book
