Research Catalog

Title

The rain forests of home : profile of a North American bioregion / edited by Peter K. Schoonmaker, Bettina von Hagen, and Edward C. Wolf ; foreword by Patricia Marchak and Jerry F. Franklin.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Island Press, 1997.

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Additional Authors

• Schoonmaker, Peter K.
• Von Hagen, Bettina
• Wolf, Edward C.

Description

xvi, 431 p. [3] p. of plates : ill.(some col.), maps; 26 cm.

Summary

The book brings together a diverse array of thinkers--conservationists, community organizers, botanists, anthropologists, zoologists, Native Americans, ecologists, and others--to present a multilayered, multidimensional portrait of the coastal temperate rain forest and its people. Joining natural and social science perspectives, the book provides readers with a valuable understanding of the region's natural and human history, along with a vision of its future and strategies for realising that vision. It offers for the first time a unified description of the characteristics, history, culture, economy, and ecology of the coastal temperate rain forest. It is essential reading for anyone who lives in or cares about the region.

Alternative Title

Rainforests of home

Subject

• Rain forest ecology > Northwest Coast of North America > Congresses
• Rain forests > Northwest Coast of North America > Congresses
• Temperate rain forest ecology > Northwest Coast of North America > Congresses
• Temperate rain forests > Northwest Coast of North America > Congresses
• Ecosystem
• Conservation of Natural Resources
• Northwestern United States
• British Columbia

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• Developed from a conference held at the Whistler Resort near Vancouver, B.C. in late Aug. 1994.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Oceanography of the Eastern North Pacific / David K. Salmon -- Climate of the coastal temperate rain forest / Kelly Redmond and George Taylor -- Influence of geological processes on ecological systems / David R. Montgomery -- Vegetation from ridgetop to seashore / Paul Alaback and Jim Pojar -- Terrestrial vertebrates / Fred L. Bunnell and Ann C. Chan-McLeod -- Streams and rivers : their physical and biological variability / Robert J. Naiman and Eric C. Anderson -- Terrestrial/marine ecotone / Charles A. Simenstad, Megan Dethier, Colin Levings, and Douglas Hay -- Pacific salmon : life histories, diversity, productivity / Willa Nehlsen and James A. Lichatowich.
• Environmental history / Richard J. Hebda and Cathy Whitlock -- Pre-European history / Wayne Suttles and Kenneth Ames -- Traditional ecological knowledge / Nancy J. Turner -- "Great raincoast" : the legacy of European settlement / William G. Robbins -- Economic and demographic transition on the Oregon coast / Hans D. Radtke, Shannon W. Davis, Rebecca L. Johnson, and Kreg Lindberg -- From ecosystem dynamics to ecosystem management / Ken Lertzman, Tom Spies, and Fred Swanson -- Vision for conservation-based development in the rain forests of home / Peter K. Schoonmaker, Bettina von Hagen, and Erin L. Kellogg.

ISBN

• 1559634790 (cloth)
• 1559634804 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^96032773^

OCLC

• 35115017
• SCSB-12838185

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library