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America's Nuclear Wastelands (Paperback)
Politics, Accountability, and Cleanup
Max S. Power
In
America's Nuclear Wastelands
, Max S. Power uses non-technical language to present a brief overview of nuclear weapons history and contamination issues, as well as a description of the institutional and political environment. He provides a background for understanding the major value conflicts and associated political dynamics, and makes recommendations for navigating long-term stewardship, but his key purpose is to demonstrate the critical role of public participation, and in so doing, encourage citizens to take action regarding local and national policies related to nuclear production and waste disposal.
Photographs maps notes bibliography index 5½" x 8Ό" 216 pages
Environment/Contemporary Issues
Price :
US$19.95
Desert Wings (Paperback)
Controversy in the Idaho Desert
Niels Sparre Nokkentved
Desert Wings
tells the contentious story of how the U.S. military and high-ranking federal and state politicians attempted to secure a bombing range in the fragile canyonlands of southwest Idaho beginning in 1989. Nokkentved gives a riveting account of the events and the people involved in the controversy and its final resolution.
Photographs maps notes 6" x 9" 160 pages (2001)
Nature/Environment/Contemporary Issues/Idaho
Price :
US$12.95
Greenscapes (Paperback)
Olmsted's Pacific Northwest
Joan Hockaday
Like his famous stepfather and mentor Frederick Law Olmsted, who designed
New York
s
Central Park
, landscape architect John Charles Olmsted believed that pastoral spaces were integral to a healthy urban life. He produced designs for Pacific Northwest university campuses and cities.
Meticulous, intensely observant, industrious, and visionary, he left a legacy that is still enjoyed daily by people across the region
.
Photographs maps notes bibliography index 9" x 10½" 196 pages
Price :
US$29.95
In the Shadow of the Mountain
The Spirit of the CCC
by Edwin G. Hill
Edwin G. Hill--a typical recruit who spent "the most enjoyable and rewarding years" of his life in the Civilian Conservation Corps--was enrolled for a year at Camp Hard Labor Creek in Georgia and for two years in Washington in the great shadow of Mt. Adams and Mt. St. Helens.
Illustrations photographs maps bibliography index 6" x 9" 208 pages (1990) Biography/Autobiography/Nature/Environment
Price :
US$14.50
Native River (Paperback)
The Columbia Remembered
William D. Layman
In images and narratives
Native River
recreates the Mid-Columbia untamed, as it once was before the building of seven major dams. Layman focuses on the 350-mile reach of the middle Columbia River-from Priest Rapids in south-central Washington to the U.S. Canadian border.
Illustrations photographs maps index 11" x 9" 208 pages (2002)
Best Sellers/Nature/Environment/Washington
Price :
US$29.95
Not Just Trees (Paperback)
The Legacy of a Douglas-fir Forest
Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds
This gracefully written story shows all that is lost when we destroy ancient stands of treesas revealed through a 60-year study of the flora and fauna in an Oregon Coast Range forest that was selectively logged and finally clear-cut.
Photographs maps glossary bibliography index 6" x 9" 360 pages (1999)
Nature/Environment/Oregon
Price :
US$16.95
Rufus Woods, the Columbia River, and the Building of Modern Washington (Paperback)
Robert E. Ficken
Rufus Woodsfor more than 40 years the editor and publisher of the
Wenatchee Daily World
has often been called the High Priest of the Columbia River. From his editorial platform, Woods tirelessly promoted Wenatchee and north central Washington and long advocated the economic development of the Columbia River.
Photographs notes bibliography index 6" x 9" 316 pages (1995)
Bridges/Dams/Washington/Northwest History/Biography/Autobiography
Price :
US$14.95
The Restless Northwest (Paperback)
A Geological Story
Hill Williams
In an easy conversational style,
The Restless Northwest
provides a brief overview of the remarkable processes that shaped the Pacific Northwest. The narrative also is sprinkled with firsthand accounts of people involved in recent exciting scientific discoveries.
Illustrations photographs maps index 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" 176 pages (2002)
Best Sellers/Nature/Environment/Archaeology/Prehistory
Price :
US$19.95
To the White Clouds (Paperback)
Idaho's Conservation Saga, 1900-1970
J.M. Neil
In the 1960s, a mining corporation quietly applied to build a road to the base of Castle Peak, located in Idahos magnificent and pristine White Clouds mountain range. That simple request, initially publicized by the Forest Service, brought a challenge to the Mining Act of 1872 and ignited a controversy that stirred a nation and quite possibly determined the results in Idahos race for governor in 1970.
Maps notes bibliography index 6" x 9" 232 pages (2005)
Nature/Environment/Northwest History/Idaho
Price :
US$16.95
Wild to the Last (Paperback)
Environmental Conflict in the Clearwater Country
Charles Pezeshki
One of the last blocks of unprotected wild country left in the Lower 48, the Clearwater Country in north-central Idaho is a small place to save, writes Charles Pezeshki. Serving as advocate as he chronicles this land and the people involved in efforts to preserve it, Pezeshki introduces us not only to a spectacular country, but also to the ordinary folks who labor against enormous odds to save it for posterity.
Photographs maps index 6" x 9" 274 pages (1998)
Nature/Environment/Idaho
Price :
US$9.95
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