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[2011]
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"Beginning in the late 1980s, a series of improbable bark beetle outbreaks unsettled iconic forests and communities across western North America. An insect the size of a rice kernel eventually killed more than 30 billion pine and spruce trees from Alaska to New Mexico. Often appearing in masses larger than schools of killer whales, the beetles engineered one of the world's greatest forest die-offs since the deforestation of Europe by peasants between...
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Are you sick and tired of pesky insects in your garden? Do you want to stay away from pesticides and harmful poisons that could be hazardous to your health and your garden? This book will show you how to bring your garden ecosystem into balance so that beneficial insects and larger animals do the work of pest control for you.
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Series
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[2008]
Description
This volume follows the multiple award-winning first book in a series of gardening books for deer country. Volume 2 again takes the reader into the garden,m detaining cultural requirements, bloom length, seasonal interest, landscape use, companion plants, maintenance, and propagaiton for each groundcover. Plants are evaluated for their use as a single specimen in the rock garden, or as a large or small-scale groundcover.