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Emerald ash borer attacks and kills all true native North American ash trees, including green, white, black and blue ash, and their cultivars. This pest kills stressed and healthy trees and is so aggressive that ash trees may die within two years after they become infested. Provides information on what the Colorado State Forest Service is doing to contain the problem, what the citizen can do to protect ash trees, and provides other resources.
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[2014]
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Strategies to cope with the introduction and spread of invasive species need to be identified and implemented prior to introduction and establishment to best alleviate negative consequences. Invasive forest pests such as Emerald Ash Borer (EAB), Gypsy moth, and Asian Longhorned Beetle (ALB) are most likely to be introduced into Colorado via firewood, logs, or nursery stock. Existing diseases and pests such as Thousand Canker Disease and Mountain Pine...
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2018.
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In a time when our relationship to the natural world is ruled by the violence and greed of unbridled consumerism, Wendell Berry speaks out in these prescient essays, drawn from his fifty-year campaign on behalf of American lands and communities. The writings gathered in The World-Ending Fire are the unique product of a life spent farming the fields of rural Kentucky with mules and horses, and of the rich, intimate knowledge of the land cultivated...
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"Natalie Baszile brings together essays, poems, photographs, quotes, conversations, and first-person stories to examine black people’s connection to the American land from Emancipation to today...As Baszile reveals, black farming informs crucial aspects of American culture—the family, the way our national identity is bound up with the land, the pull of memory, the healing power of food, and race relations. She reminds us that the land, well-earned...
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2014.
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Combining stunning visuals with insights and a lexicon of more than 200 agricultural terms explained by today's thought leaders, Local showcases and explores one of the most popular environmental trends: rebuilding local food movements.
When Douglas Gayeton took his young daughter to see the salmon run-a favorite pastime growing up in Northern California-he was devastated to find that a combination of urban sprawl, land mismanagement, and pollution...
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c2012
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In Seeds, novelist and nature writer Richard Horan sought out the trees that inspired the work of great American writers like Faulkner, Kerouac, Welty, Wharton, and Harper Lee. In Harvest, Horan embarks upon a serendipitous journey across America to work the harvests of more than a dozen essential or unusual food crops-and, in the process, forms powerful connections with the farmers, the soil, and the seasons.
20) 40 projects for building your backyard homestead: a hands-on, step-by-step sustainable-living guide
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c2013
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Provides details on how to build more than 40 projects--sheds, feeders, fences, and other structures--to enhance readers' sustainable living.
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