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  • Forest Development in Cold Climates Forest Development in Cold Climates
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    Forest Development in Cold Climates

    As forests decline in temperate and tropical climates, highly-developed countries and those striving for greater economic and social benefits are beginning to utilize marginal forests of high-latitude and mountainous regions...
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  • Biological Control of Plant Diseases Biological Control of Plant Diseases
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    Biological Control of Plant Diseases

    The papers contained in this book were presented at a NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) held at Cape Sounion, Athens, Greece, 19-24 May, 1991. The twenty-eight more comprehensive papers represent the key subjects of the ARW...
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  • Target Sites for Herbicide Action Target Sites for Herbicide Action
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    Target Sites for Herbicide Action

    The development of chemicals to selectively control the growth of weeds has been a fascinating success story which has unfolded largely during the last four decades. The dramatic growth of herbicide research that followed the...
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  • Denitrification in Soil and Sediment Denitrification in Soil and Sediment
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    Denitrification in Soil and Sediment

    The formation of atmospheric nitrogen gas by denitrifying bacteria may represent a significant nutrient sink in natural ecosystems. The rate of denitrification has often been difficult to measure in situ, however, and new...
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  • Dynamics of Forest Insect Populations Dynamics of Forest Insect Populations
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    Dynamics of Forest Insect Populations

    Insects multiply. Destruction reigns. There is dismay, followed by outcry, and demands to Authority. Authority remembers its experts or appoints some: they ought to know. The experts advise a Cure. The Cure can be almost...
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  • Wheat Growth and Modelling Wheat Growth and Modelling
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    Wheat Growth and Modelling

    The concept of using mathematical models to investigate crop growth and productivity has attracted much attention in recent years. A major reason is that modelling can allow an expert in one area to assess the impact of his...
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  • Tissue Culture in Forestry and Agriculture Tissue Culture in Forestry and Agriculture
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    Tissue Culture in Forestry and Agriculture

    This symposium is the third in a series featuring the propaga­ tion of higher plants through tissue culture. The first of these symposia, entitled "A Bridge Between Research and Application," was held at the University in 1978...
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  • Insecticide Biochemistry and Physiology Insecticide Biochemistry and Physiology
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    Insecticide Biochemistry and Physiology

    Only four short decades ago, the control of insect pests by means of chemicals was in its early infancy. The pioneers in the area consisted largely of a group of dedicated applied entomologists working to the best of their...
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  • The Lost Wolves of Japan The Lost Wolves of Japan
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    The Lost Wolves of Japan

    Many Japanese once revered the wolf as Oguchi no Magami, or Large-Mouthed Pure God, but as Japan began its modern transformation wolves lost their otherworldly status and became noxious animals that needed to be killed. By 1905 they had disappeared from...
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  • Northwest Lands, Northwest Peoples Northwest Lands, Northwest Peoples
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    Northwest Lands, Northwest Peoples

    It can be said that all of human history is environmental history, for all human action happens in an environment—in a place. This collection of essays explores the environmental history of the Pacific Northwest of North America, addressing...
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  • Cultural Politics and the Transatlantic Divide over GMOs Cultural Politics and the Transatlantic Divide over GMOs
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    Cultural Politics and the Transatlantic Divide over GMOs

    Alongside other factors, cultural values and identities help to explain different regulatory frameworks for genetically modified organisms. This book uses insights from environmental history and sociology to illuminate the cultural politics of regulation...
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  • Sheep Feeds and Feeding Sheep Feeds and Feeding
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    Sheep Feeds and Feeding

    A completely revised and updated edition of the popular Nutrition Guide for BC Sheep Producers that the author created when he was Provincial Sheep Specialist and later Provincial Livestock Nutritionist for British Columbia, based on first-hand...
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  • Light and Plant Growth Light and Plant Growth
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    Light and Plant Growth

    There are many recent works on the topic of light and plant growth. These have not only been written by experts, but are also, in the main, written for experts (or, at least, for those who already have a fair understanding of...
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  • Plants for Arid Lands Plants for Arid Lands
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    Plants for Arid Lands

    Economic plants have been defined by SEPASAT as those plants that are utilised either directly or indirectly for the benefit of Man. Indirect usage includes the needs of Man's livestock and the maintenance of the environment;...
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    Cultivating Community
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    Cultivating Community

    In the face of escalating water scarcity, effective water management has become a central concern globally. The MurrayDarling Basin, spanning over a million square kilometres across four states and one territory, is a lifeline for Australian agriculture...
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    Meatsplaining
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    Meatsplaining

    The animal agriculture industry, like other profit-driven industries, aggressively seeks to shield itself from public scrutiny and uses a distinct set of rhetorical strategies to deflect criticism. These tactics are fundamental to modern animal...
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    Harmful Australian Marine Microalgae
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    Harmful Australian Marine Microalgae

    Algal blooms have the potential to wipe out fish farms virtually overnight. Contamination of seafoods with algal toxins can poison human consumers of fish and shellfish. During the past two decades, globally there have been significant increases in...
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    Tasmanian Mayflies
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    Tasmanian Mayflies

    Mayflies are one of the world's most diverse, abundant and important aquatic insects. Famous for their brief adult life spans, mayflies play a key role in the ecology of aquatic and associated terrestrial ecosystems, and are critical...
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    Community-based Control of Invasive Species
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    Community-based Control of Invasive Species

    Invasive species are among the greatest challenges to environmental sustainability and agricultural productivity in the world. One of the most promising approaches to managing invasive species is voluntary citizen stewardship. However, in order for...
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    Insects of Stored Grain

    This handy pocket guide allows the non-specialist to identify major insect and arachnid pests found in stored cereal grains, grain products and grain legumes. It describes most storage pests found worldwide rather than concentrating on Australia and...
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    Ecoagriculture for a Sustainable Food Future

    Global food security is dependent on ecologically viable production systems, but current agricultural practices are often at odds with environmental sustainability. Resolving this disparity is a huge task, but there is much that can be learned from...
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    Farming Meat Goats
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    Farming Meat Goats

    Goat meat is growing in popularity in Australia and is also an important export industry. It offers many opportunities for large- and small-scale farmers who need to diversify or seek alternative enterprises. Farming Meat Goats provides producers with...
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    A Guide to Native Bees of Australia
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    A Guide to Native Bees of Australia

    Winner of the 2019 Whitley Award for Illustrated Guide A Guide to Native Bees of Australia provides a detailed introduction to the estimated 2000 species of Australian bees. Illustrated with stunning photographs, it describes the form and function...
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  • Tree Faller's Manual
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    Tree Faller's Manual

    The Tree Faller's Manual is an essential handbook for forest operators and others who need to fell trees manually using a hand-held chainsaw. Tree felling is a high risk activity. Many fatalities and serious injuries have occurred as a result of being...
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  • Gardening Down Under
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    Gardening Down Under

    This fully revised edition of Kevin Handreck's classic best-seller contains a wealth of information for practical gardeners. It will enable you to improve the worst of soils, choose the best fertiliser for particular plants and minimise water use. It...
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    Urban Beekeeping Urban Beekeeping
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    Urban Beekeeping

    An instruction manual for change, Urban Beekeeping explores how we can adapt urban spaces to create a more sustainable future, both for bees and for ourselves. Urban beekeeping has become a booming pastime in cities throughout the world. But why just fit...
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    Manuka
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    Manuka

    Not so long ago, in a small island nation in the South Pacific, beekeepers produced a most peculiar honey. It was much darker than the clover honey everyone put on their toast in the morning, and it tasted very different. In fact, the honey was a...
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  • Foodtopia
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    Foodtopia

    "Insightful...empathetic...a thoughtful consideration of a topic that will have a substantial impact on our future."-BooklistReadable Feast, Book Award Winner for Socially Conscious Writing * Civil Eats' Food and Farming Book PickEver wonder if there's a...
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  • Agroecology and Regenerative Agriculture
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    Agroecology and Regenerative Agriculture

    A synthesis of more than three decades of interdisciplinary research and practice, Agroecology and Regenerative Agriculture: An Evidence-based Guide to Sustainable Solutions for Hunger, Poverty, and Climate Change, provides evidence-based solutions to...
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    Land Rich, Cash Poor
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    Land Rich, Cash Poor

    The hidden history of an economic and cultural crisis that is threatening our very food supply-the disappearance of the American farmer."An anthem to the family farm in America." -The Associated PressTaking on this working-class story of heart and...
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  • Dolia
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    Dolia

    The story of the Roman Empire's enormous wine industry told through the remarkable ceramic storage and shipping containers that made it possibleThe average resident of ancient Rome drank two-hundred-and-fifty liters of wine a year, almost a bottle a day,...
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    Douglas Lake Ranch
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    Douglas Lake Ranch

    Explore the rich history of Canada's largest ranch.Douglas Lake is the largest ranch in Canada, encompassing over one million acres of BC's south-central interior, and thousands of people have worked there since it was founded in the mid 1880s. Douglas...
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  • Under the Henfluence
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    Under the Henfluence

    An immersive blend of chicken-keeping memoir and culture reporting by a journalist who accidentally became obsessed with her flock.Since first domesticating the chicken thousands of years ago, humans have become exceptionally adept at raising them for...
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    The Farmer's Office, Second Edition
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    The Farmer's Office, Second Edition

    The no-nonsense, practical guide for farm-preneurs to grow a successful farm business - completely revised and updated.You launched your farm because you love working the land and producing food. Yet to succeed you also need to think like an entrepreneur...
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  • Compost Science for Gardeners
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    Compost Science for Gardeners

    Compost Science for Gardeners demystifies the full range of composting methods and helps readers determine or select the best technique for their situation. This comprehensive, plain-language, science-based book covers everything from the inputs required...
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    The Winter Market Gardener
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    The Winter Market Gardener

    Profitable winter market gardening - the complete practical guide to growing vegetables year-round in northern climates for local markets.Many small farms shut down during the dark winter months. Yet with the right techniques, equipment and cultivars,...
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    Voices of the Forest
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    Voices of the Forest

    The creation of large new tracts of forest, together with the development of a modern wood processing sector, was the single biggest transformation to occur in the Scottish countryside during the twentieth century. While the environmental and landscape...
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    Gather & Nourish
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    Gather & Nourish

    Meet the makers as Gather & Nourish offers an aromatic insight into the motivations and challenges of artisan food producers.Food is not just a way to fill our stomachs but is representative of the culture and time we live in. It tells a...
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  • A Scurry of Squirrels
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    A Scurry of Squirrels

    Polly Pullar has had a passion for red squirrels since childhood. As a wildlife rehabilitator, she knows the squirrel on a profoundly personal level and has hand-reared numerous litters of orphan kits, eventually returning them to the wild.In this book...
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  • Isolation Shepherd
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    Isolation Shepherd

    In August 1956 a young shepherd, his wife, two-year-old daughter and ten-day-old son sat huddled in a small boat on Loch Monar in Ross-shire as a storm raged around them. They were bound for a tiny, remote cottage at the western end of the loch which was...
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  • Taming Fruit
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    Taming Fruit

    For readers of Michael Pollan's The Botany of Desire and Mark Kurlansky's Salt.The story of orchards is a human story. It is also a story of how humans have bent and shaped nature to our tastes and desires for millennia.In Taming Fruit, award-winning...
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    Feeding Istanbul
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    Feeding Istanbul

    How was Istanbul, once the capital of the Ottoman Empire and now the financial heart of contemporary Turkey, provisioned in the early 19th century? Tracing how the sovereign's duty to provision the city and protect his subjects from hunger was gradually...
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    Brave and Loyal
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    Brave and Loyal

    Learn about the brave dogs who help guard livestock around the world!Wolf populations in the Rocky Mountains have reached recovery goals due in large part to an environmentally friendly method of predator control now in use on western ranches: livestock...
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