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  • Hetch Hetchy: A History in Documents

    by Char Miller ...
    In 1913, President Woodrow Wilson signed legislation approving the construction of the O’Shaughnessy Dam to inundate the Hetch Hetchy Valley inside Yosemite National Park. This decision concluded a decade-long, highly contentious debate over the dam-and-reservoir complex to supply water to post-earthquake San Francisco, a battle that was dramatic, unsettling, and consequential. Hetch Hetchy: A ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Natural Consequences: Intimate Essays for a Planet in Peril

    by Char Miller ...
    Drought and fires, floods and rising tides: These and other climate-driven forces are compelling us to examine our role as inhabitants of our imperiled planet. In over forty vitally important essays and vignettes, Natural Consequences is Char Miller’s literary tour de force that illuminates the historical background of how we got here, what we need to do now, and how we can thrive into the future ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Not So Golden State

    Sustainability vs. the California Dream

    by Char Miller ...
    In Not So Golden State, leading environmental historian Char Miller looks below the surface of California's ecological history to expose some of its less glittering conundrums. In this necessary work, Miller asks tough questions as we stand at the edge of a human-induced natural disaster in the region and beyond. He details policy steps and missteps in public land management and examines the ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • On the Edge

    Water, Immigration, and Politics in the Southwest

    by Char Miller ...
    On the Edge grew out of a lifetime spent living and traveling across the American Southwest, from San Antonio to Los Angeles. Char Miller examines this borderland region through a native's eyes and contemplates its considerable conflicts. Internal to the various US states and Mexico's northern tier, there are struggles over water, debates over undocumented immigrants, the criminalizing of the ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • Deep in the Heart of San Antonio

    Land and Life in South Texas

    by Char Miller ...
    Char Miller's collection of essays provides an insightful survey of San Antonio and South Texas. The essays are grouped into six thematic sections: an overview; natural and environmental history; water issues; urban development; politics; and the city's future. Miller describes the First Friday Art Walks in Southtown, where the promenade reenacts the pedestrian traffic envisioned by the San ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Seeking the Greatest Good

    The Conservation Legacy of Gifford Pinchot

    by Char Miller ...
    Series series Regional
    President John F. Kennedy officially dedicated the Pinchot Institute for Conservation Studies on September 24, 1963 to further the legacy and activism of conservationist Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946). Pinchot was the first chief of the United States Forest Service, appointed by Theodore Roosevelt in 1905. During his five-year term, he more than tripled the national forest reserves to 172 million ... Read more

    $39.19 CAD

  • Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism

    by Char Miller ...
    Series series Pioneers of Conservation
    Gifford Pinchot is known primarily for his work as first chief of the U. S. Forest Service and for his argument that resources should be used to provide the "greatest good for the greatest number of people." But Pinchot was a more complicated figure than has generally been recognized, and more than half a century after his death, he continues to provoke controversy.Gifford Pinchot and the Making ... Read more

    $63.79 CAD

  • Theodore Roosevelt, Naturalist in the Arena

    Edited by Char Miller, Clay S. Jenkinson ...
    Theodore Roosevelt’s scientific curiosity and love of the outdoors proved a defining force throughout his hectic life as a rancher and explorer, police commissioner and governor of New York, vice president and president of the United States. Conservation and natural history were parts of a whole for this driven, charismatic public servant, and Roosevelt approached the natural world with joy and a ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Where There's Smoke

    The Environmental Science, Public Policy, and Politics of Marijuana

    Edited by Char Miller ...
    Over the course of a year, in just one national forest in California, raids on illegal marijuana growing operations yielded 19,710 pounds of infrastructure, 138 ounces of restricted poisons, 4,595 pounds of fertilizer, 12 gallons of common pesticides, 5.6 miles of waterlines, and 102 propane bottles. Even as efforts to legalize marijuana accelerate, such “trespass grows” spread exponentially—as ... Read more

    Was $60.99 CAD Now $36.79 CAD

  • Wilderness and the American Mind

    Fifth Edition

    by Roderick Frazier Nash ...
    Roderick Nash’s classic study of changing attitudes toward wilderness during American history, as well as the origins of the environmental and conservation movements, has received wide acclaim since its initial publication in 1967. The Los Angeles Times listed it among the one hundred most influential books published in the last quarter century, Outside Magazine included it in a survey of books ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Duchess of Angus

    by Margaret Brown Kilik, Char Miller ...
    Found novel with autobiographical foundation; attic discovery; known secret within family that she wrote; a woman who hid these parts of herselfFeatures themes of sexual assault; sexually promiscuous charactersSnapshot of WW2 American Southwest/ San Antonio/ TexasHighlights sexuality and race dynamics in the 1940sWW2 military side-focus *When twenty-year-old Jane Davis returns home to the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Forest Conservation in the Anthropocene

    Science, Policy, and Practice

    Edited by V. Alaric Sample, R. Patrick Bixler, Char Miller ...
    Forest Conservation in the Anthropocene provides thought-provoking insight into the ongoing environmental crises that climate change is generating and raises critical questions about how public and private land managers in North America will adapt to the climatological disruptions that are already transforming the ecological structures of these forests.In this pathbreaking anthology, a team of ... Read more

    $34.09 CAD