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A Louisiana coastal atlas : resources, economies, and demographics
Through a wide range of demographic, economic, social, and environmental data, A Louisiana Coastal Atlas shows cartographically how the inherent resilience of coastal communities manifests itself over time. By illustrating the adaptability of residents to their environment and economy, this resource shows how historical processes can inform planners to more effectively respond to and recover form future ecological events.
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The Tanoak Tree
Tanoak (Notholithocarpus densiflorus) is a resilient and common hardwood tree native to California and southwestern Oregon. People's radically different perceptions of it have ranged from treasured food plant to cash crop to trash tree. Having studied the patterns of tanoak use and abuse for nearly twenty years, botanist Frederica Bowcutt uncovers a complex history of cultural, sociopolitical, and economic factors affecting the tree's fate. Still valued by indigenous communities for its nutritious acorn nut, the tree has also been a source of raw resources for a variety of industries since white settlement of western North America. Despite ongoing protests, tanoaks are now commonly killed with herbicides in industrial forests in favor of more commercially valuable coast redwood and Douglas-fir. As one nontoxic alternative, many foresters and communities promote locally controlled, third-party certified sustainable hardwood production using tanoak, which doesn't depend on clearcutting and herbicide use. Today tanoaks are experiencing massive die-offs due to sudden oak death, an introduced disease. Bowcutt examines the complex set of factors that set the stage for the tree's current ecological crisis. The end of the book focuses on hopeful changes including reintroduction of low-intensity burning to reduce conifer competition for tanoaks, emerging disease resistance in some trees, and new partnerships among tanoak defenders, including botanists, foresters, Native Americans, and plant pathologists.
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Holocene evolution of the western Louisiana-Texas Coast, USA : response to sea-level rise and climate change
\"The Western Louisiana and Texas coast is vulnerable to sea-level rise due to low gradients, high subsidence, and depleted sediment supply. This Memoir describes the response of coastal environments to variable rates of sea-level rise and sediment supply during Holocene to modern time. This volume is a wake-up call about the potential magnitude of coastal change over decadal to centennial time scales\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Swift Creek Gift
Assesses Woodland Period interactions using technofunctional,
mineralogical, and chemical data derived from Swift Creek
Complicated Stamped sherds A unique dataset for
studying past social interactions comes from Swift Creek
Complicated Stamped pottery that linked sites throughout much of
the Eastern Woodlands but that was primarily distributed over the
lower Southeast. Although connections have been demonstrated,
their significance has remained enigmatic. How and why were
apparently utilitarian vessels, or the wooden tools used to make
them, distributed widely across the landscape?
This book assesses Woodland Period interactions using
technofunctional, mineralogical, and chemical data derived from
Swift Creek Complicated Stamped sherds whose provenience is fully
documented from both mortuary mounds and village middens along
the Atlantic coast. Together, these data demonstrate formal and
functional differences between mortuary and village assemblages
along with the nearly exclusive occurrence of foreign-made
cooking pots in mortuary contexts.
The Swift Creek Gift provides insight into the unique
workings of gift exchanges to transform seemingly mundane
materials like cooking pots into powerful tools of commemoration,
affiliation, and ownership.
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Offshore sea life ID guide. East coast
This guide, designed for quick use on day trips off the East Coast, helps you put a name to what you find, from whales and dolphins to shearwaters, turtles, and even flying fish.
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Coasts under stress
Rosemary Ommer and her project team combine formal scientific (natural and social) and humanist analysis with an examination of the lived experience of coastal people. They analyze community erosion created by economic decline and the ecosystem damage caused by unrelenting industrial pressure on natural resources and look at the history of coastal communities, their resource bases, their economies, and the way the lives of people are embedded in their environments.
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Offshore sea life ID guide. West coast
\"Two-thirds of our planet lies out of sight of land, just offshore beyond the horizon. What wildlife might you find out there? And how might you identify what you see? This Offshore Sea Life ID Guide, designed for quick use on day trips off the West Coast, helps you put a name to what you see, from whales and dolphins to albatrosses, turtles, and even flyingfish. Carefully crafted color plates show species as they typically appear at sea, and expert text highlights identification features. This user-friendly field guide is essential for anyone going out on a whale-watching or birding trip, and provides a handy gateway to the wonders of the ocean.\"--Publisher description.
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Human impacts on seals, sea lions, and sea otters
For more than ten thousand years, Native Americans from Alaska to southern California relied on aquatic animals such as seals, sea lions, and sea otters for food and raw materials. Archaeological research on the interactions between people and these marine mammals has made great advances recently and provides a unique lens for understanding the human and ecological past. Archaeological research is also emerging as a crucial source of information on contemporary environmental issues as we improve our understanding of the ancient abundance, ecology, and natural history of these species. This groundbreaking interdisciplinary volume brings together archaeologists, biologists, and other scientists to consider how archaeology can inform the conservation and management of pinnipeds and other marine mammals along the Pacific Coast.
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Amalfi Coast : road trips
A guide to traveling the Amalfi Coast that includes trip planning information, itineraries, lodging and dining suggestions for different budgets, and details on history, culture, and things to see and do.
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Sharing Our Knowledge
Sharing Our Knowledgebrings together Native elders, tradition bearers, educators, cultural activists, anthropologists, linguists, historians, and museum professionals to explore the culture, history, and language of the Tlingit people of southeast Alaska and their coastal neighbors. These interdisciplinary, collaborative essays present Tlingit culture, as well as the culture of their coastal neighbors, not as an object of study but rather as a living heritage that continues to inspire and guide the lives of communities and individuals throughout southeast Alaska and northwest British Columbia.
This volume focuses on the preservation and dissemination of Tlingit language, traditional cultural knowledge, and history from an activist Tlingit perspective.Sharing Our Knowledgealso highlights a variety of collaborations between Native groups and individuals and non-Native researchers, emphasizing a long history of respectful, cooperative, and productive working relations aimed at recording and transmitting cultural knowledge for tribal use and promoting Native agency in preserving heritage. By focusing on these collaborations, the contributors demonstrate how such alliances have benefited the Tlingits and neighboring groups in preserving and protecting their heritage while advancing scholarship at the same time.
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