books by Craig Pittman (insanity paradise species)

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)

7 reviews
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 ...