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Book Description hardcover. Condition: new. 1. The American West at Risk summarizes the dominant humangenerated environmental challenges in the 11 contiguous arid western United States Americas legendary even mythical frontier When discovered by European explorers and later settlers the west boasted rich soils bountiful fisheries immense dense forests sparkling streams untapped ore deposits and oil bonanzas It now faces depletion of many of these resources and potentially serious threats to its few renewable resourcesThe importance of this story is that preserving lands has a central role for protecting air and water quality and water suppliesand all support a healthy living environment The idea that all life on earth is connected in a great chain of being and that all life is connected to the physical earth in many obvious and subtle ways is not some newage fad it is scientifically demonstrable An understanding of earth processes and the significance of their biological connections is critical in shaping societal values so that national land use policies will conserve the earth and avoid the worst impacts of natural processes These connections inevitably lead science into the murkier realms of political controversy and bureaucratic stasis Most of the chapters in The American West at Risk focus on a human land use or activity that depletes resources and degrades environmental integrity of this resourcerich but tender and slowtoheal western USThe activities include forest clearing for many purposes farming and grazing mining for aggregate metals and other materials energy extraction and use military training and weapons manufacturing and testing road and utility transmission corridors recreation urbanization and disposing of the wastes generated by everything that we do We focus on how our landdegrading activities are connected to natural earth processes which act to accelerate and spread the damages we inflict on the landVisit wwwtheamericanwestatriskcom to learn more about the book and its authors. Seller Inventory # DADAX0195142055
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