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Fragile Giants: a Natural History of the Loess Hills
Full text linkReview of: Fragile Giants: a Natural History of the Loess Hills. Mutel, Cornelia F
Fragile Giants: a Natural History of the Loess Hills
Full text linkReview of: Fragile Giants: a Natural History of the Loess Hills. Mutel, Cornelia F
Fragile Giants: a Natural History of the Loess Hills
Full text linkReview of: Fragile Giants: a Natural History of the Loess Hills. Mutel, Cornelia F
Land of the Fragile Giants: Landscapes, Environments, and Peoples of the Loess Hills
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Land of the Fragile Giants: Landscapes, Environments, and Peoples of the Loess Hills
Full text linkReview of: Land of the Fragile Giants: Landscapes, Environments, and Peoples of the Loess Hills. Mutel, Cornelia F. and Swander, Mary, ed
Land of the Fragile Giants: Landscapes, Environments, and Peoples of the Loess Hills
Full text linkReview of: Land of the Fragile Giants: Landscapes, Environments, and Peoples of the Loess Hills. Mutel, Cornelia F. and Swander, Mary, ed
Was Climate Change Involved?
No full textThis is a chapter from Mutel, Cornelia F., ed. A Watershed Year: Anatomy of the Iowa Floods of 2008. University of Iowa Press, 2010. Posted with permission.</p
Book Review: Places of Quiet Beauty: Parks, Preserves, and Environmentalism
Full text linkPlaces of Quiet Beauty: Parks, Preserves, and Environmentalism. Rebecca Conard. 1997. University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, Iowa. XV + 382 pages. ISBN 0-87745-558-9.
Well administered, parks become much more than havens for birds and flowers, much more than game-preserves, a refuge for life of every sort; even more than a play-ground for all the people ... [The well administered park] shall show us real democracy.
So began one of Iowa\u27s preeminent natural historians, Thomas Macbride, in an early-20th-century (1922) address on the status of Iowa\u27s parks. And so Rebecca Conard begins her late-20th-century analysis of the development of Iowa\u27s parks and preserves. Macbride\u27s quote reflects the multiplicity of expectations that were placed upon parks - for wild species, humans, and society. Conard traces this complex story out in its fullness, outlining the ongoing attempts to balance the pressures for various recreational uses of public lands with the need to conserve natural features and resources
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