Nature's Second Chance: Restoring the Ecology of Stone Prairie Farm - Couverture rigide

Apfelbaum, Steven

 
9780807085820: Nature's Second Chance: Restoring the Ecology of Stone Prairie Farm
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ISBN 10 : 0807085820 ISBN 13 : 9780807085820
Editeur : Beacon Press, 2009

Synopsis

Renowned conservationist Aldo Leopold once wrote, "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it does otherwise." Years after Leopold's passing, his "land ethic" is a centerpiece for the modern conservation and ecological restoration movements in America, and around the world.

There are few who have taken to heart Leopold's vision more than restoration ecologist Steven Apfelbaum, who, over thirty years, transformed his eighty-acre Stone Prairie Farm in Wisconsin into a biologically diverse ecosystem of prairie, wetland, spring brook, and forest. In Nature's Second Chance, the author captures the intimate relationship he has created with the land and shows how the restored farm is serving as a model for the human community around him. Opening with his very first walk on the farm, this deeply personal account relates how Apfelbaum and his family worked to restore acres of native wildflowers and wildlife on land he found depleted after years of corn farming. The traditional agricultural community around him was at first deeply suspicious, he explains, but most of them came around to Leopold's beliefs, as lived by the author, after seeing the benefits of restoration at Stone Prairie Farm.

Nature's Second Chance offers unique insights into the biological world, the processes of ecological recovery, and how humans might play a starring role in healing a planet by implementing Leopold's land ethic, one farm, lot, or brownfield at a time.

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À propos de l?auteur

Steven I. Apfelbaum is founder, president, and senior ecologist of the firm Applied Ecological Services, known for its international science-based ecological design and restoration work. He lives in Juda, Wisconsin, on Stone Prairie Farm.

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Éditeur
Beacon Press
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0807085820
ISBN 13 
9780807085820
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
256
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780807085967: Nature's Second Chance: Restoring the Ecology of Stone Prairie Farm

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0807085960 ISBN 13 :  9780807085967
Editeur : Beacon Press, 2010
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