The Sunflower Forest: Ecological Restoration and the New Communion with Nature
- ISBN-10
- 0520233204
- ISBN-13
- 9780520233201
- Series
- The Sunflower Forest
- Category
- Nature
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003-06
- Publisher
- Univ of California Press
- Author
- William R. Jordan
Description
Examines how ecological restoration can reverse environmental damage and conserve forests, prairies, and wetlands. Describes ways to guide damaged ecosystems back to their natural, healthy condition, and provides context for the relationship humans have with nature.
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- 2012-02-07
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