books by Craig Pittman
books:
Manatee Insanity: Inside the War over Florida's Most Famous Endangered Species (Florida History and Culture)
Craig Pittman
University Press of Florida
, 2010
Why is the manatee just as imperiled today as it was 40 years ago? Loveable or loathed? Poster child for conservation efforts or impediment to development? Nuisance or in need of protection? For the past two decades, the quiet manatee has been a flash point of frequent environmental debates. Included on the very first endangered species list issued in 1967, the docile creatures have stirred curiosity and passions for more than a hundred years. ...
Paving Paradise: Florida's Vanishing Wetlands and the Failure of No Net Loss (Florida History and Culture)
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Craig Pittman,
Matthew Waite
University Press of Florida
, 2009
naked truth
From three-decades as government employee -- county, state and federal -- I felt like a streetwalker reading about $5,000-an-hour "escorts" who portray they are providing a valuable public service. This says it all (from page 167): "One of the areas hardest hit was the western side of the Everglades, where the Corps cranked out permits allowing the destruction of some 4,000 acres of swamps and ...
endangered
Waking Up in Eden: In Pursuit of an Impassioned Life on an Imperiled ...
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World (CBC ...
Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See? Board Book
Last Chance to See
vanishing
Vanishing Point: Perspective for Comics from the Ground Up
The Vanishing Point
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning
Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a ...
wetlands
A Naturalist's Guide to Wetland Plants: An Ecology for Eastern North ...
Field Guide to Tidal Wetland Plants of the Northeastern United States ...
Treatment Wetlands, Second Edition
Wetland Indicators: A Guide to Wetland Identification, Delineation, ...
Wetland Ecosystems
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