A Natural History of California: Second Edition
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| Rating | : | 4.88 (969 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0520290372 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 632 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-08 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
This is a good picture of California as it exists now, balanced between what it was and, with restoration, what it could.”—Environmental History . From the Inside Flap“An impressive compendium of the state’s landforms, habitats, species, and conservation issues.”—Sierra “One suspects that Allan Schoenherr’s book will be regarded as the publishing equivalent of the Sierra Nevada mountains—unique, conspicuous, a major landmark.”—Santa Cruz Sentinel “Allan Schoenherr’s accomplishment takes us back to heroic times when individuals dared to write multivolume encyclopedias
In this comprehensive and abundantly illustrated book, Allan A. The second edition of this classic work features updated species names and taxa, new details about parks reclassified by federal and state agencies, new stories about modern human and animal interaction, and a new epilogue on the impacts of climate change. . Schoenherr describes the natural history of California—a state with a greater range of landforms, a greater variety of habitats, and more kinds of plants and animals than any area of equivalent size in all of North America. A Natural History of California focuses on each distinctive region, addressing its climate, rocks, soil, plants, and animals