“Potential Role of Sacred Groves in Biodiversity Conservation in Tanzania.”

Sacred groves often are preserved by local people.

Gifford Pinchot and the origins of forest policy in America.

Is it possible to restore the natural beauty of Yosemite Valley?

A review of the 1964 Wilderness Act.

Millions of acres of wildlands are the legacy of every American.

Describes how agroforestry saved the land and people.

Tourism may be threatening a biological treasure.

Florida's coral reefs are showing signs of stress and disease from warming water, pollution, silt, and human damage.

A comprehensive guide to restoring wildlife and the habitats upon which they depend.

A battle between western loggers and environmentalists.

Once believed to be protected forever, Antarctica’s delicate and precarious beauty is under threat again, and international treaties may not be enough to save it.

Caribbean reefs protected by no-fishing zones despite rise in predators.

Urban stream restoration is a very complex task due largely to the interactions between the physical, chemical, and biological stream components.

A small number of sites contain a disproportionate fraction of rare and endemic species.

A good description of perhaps the best known cloud forest in the world.

One of the best-known histories of American ideas about wilderness.

A revised guide to traveling "lightly."

Biological soil crusts protect soil from erosion. Grazing destroys these crusts, which take decades to rebuild.

Large male bears leave rivers when tourists arrive, thus allowing more time for feeding by females and cubs. This may increase cub survival and increase bear populations.

Loggers claimed that protecting the spotted owl would ruin the economy. An economics professor shows that didn’t happen.

Global warming is triggering expansion of beetles into new territory and destroying vast areas of forest.

An excellent overview of the history, ecology, and conservation of this important biome.

We need to plan for climate change effects.

A classic in conservation planning.

Economic development doesn’t always help preserve nature.

A comprehensive survey of wilderness philosophy in America.

Practical hands-on manual for restoring prairies, savannas, and woodlands. A good description of tallgrass prairies and their restoration.

Using remote sensing, researchers estimate that as much as 40% of the carbon released in 1997 came from peatland fires in the tropics.

Marine reserves work.

Activists risk jail sentences to protest logging on Vancouver Island.

While the effects of a fisheries collapses on local economies and fishing-dependent communities have generated much discussion, little attention has been paid to their impacts on the overall health of the ocean's ecosystems.

We need a rational system of resource management in marine species.

More than one-third of Yellowstone’s America’s bison herd was destroyed by Montana hunters in 1997 because of fears that the animals might spread brucellosis.

A post-modernist discourse on colonization and scientific forest management marginalized and dispossessed traditional forest inhabitants of Java.

A re-issue of the autobiography of a conservation pioneer.

Based on a Conservation International Conference in Panama, this book explores forest management and sustainability.

An important shift in management approaches by the Nature Conservancy.

Leaders of the wise-use movement decry what they perceive to be attacks on private property rights.

Changing climate is implicated in the disappearance of highly specialized species.

A literary criticism of prairie writers.

Leading biologists, social scientists, and conservations working in the Selva Maya present information on the intricate social and political issues and the complex scientific and management problems to be resolved there.

Remediation research in Georgia's Savannah River Ecology Laboratory shows that low-tech approaches can be effective.

How can we choose the best parks and preserves under changing climates?

What will it take to maintain healthy populations of predators in the park?

A mixture of archival research and field experience describes how fighting all forest fires won out over prescribed burning in the U.S.

Natural resources and conservation potential in Burma.

This paper analyzes the dynamics of tourism growth and biodiversity and its impact on resources, environment, local communities, and the state economy in the Sikkim Himalaya.

Kenaf produces more fiber per acre than trees.

A textbook on land use planning.

Some forest ecologists believe half the fires that burned in North America before European settlement were set by Indians.

A forest service employee criticizes land-use policies.

Clear cutting Canada’s forest.

Conservationists are buying and retiring grazing rights. Some westerners are outraged.

Environmentalists have proposed that a huge swath of the northern Rockies from Yellowstone to the Yukon (Y2Y) be preserved as a wildlife corridor. Can they prevail?

An excellent account of the complex fight to save the rainforest and of the rise to prominence and martyrdom of Chico Mendez.

Desert expansion is promoted by changes in land use

Experts have embraced the idea of sustainability to save valuable rain forests. Conservationists explain why this seemingly logical strategy often fails.

A GIS study shows that 83 percent of the land in the lower 48 states is within 1 km of a road, and only 3 percent is more than 5 km from a road.

A large scale analysis reports that less than 10 percent of U.S. forest lands are fully forested.

Describes an interdisciplinary approach to stream management and restoration.

Although protected areas now cover 11.5% of the world’s land surface, they fail to safeguard many rare species.

Amazonian ecotourism lodges are saving a Brazilian River Basin.

Sometimes it takes more than one approach to select the best reserves.

Ecotourism could save a beautiful land and a fascinating culture.

A comprehensive examination of the history, ecology, and status of North American grasslands.

Using GIS and satellite data, geographers attempt to map human influence on nature.

A guidebook for restoring and managing natural landscapes, focusing on remnant forest systems.

An intensive grazing approach to grassland management.

The president of The Nature Conservancy observes how international strategies are yielding positive results.

Demonstrates how progressive range management and intensive, rotational grazing can be economically and ecologically sustainable.

Elephants offer an ecologically benign alternative to mechanical logging equipment in tropical forests.

A diverse array of thinkers present a portrait of the coastal temperate rain forest and its people.

Canal dredging and flood prevention are causing drastic losses in our nation's largest coastal wetlands. One of fourteen excellent articles in an issue devoted entirely to wetlands.

A classic study of village life and relations between the rich and poor in Malaysia.

Sustainable harvest of non-timber forest products in Brazil could protect the forest while providing livelihoods for local people.

How do we measure satisfaction with recreational opportunities? Is there a difference between biological carrying capacity and social demands?

The Korean demilitarized zone has become a wildlife sanctuary.

How paper companies are decimating the Cumberland Plateau.

Rattan cane is a valuable non-timber forest product, but in many areas it is being harvested non-sustainably.

In 1998, fires on the Indonesian island of Borneo burned an area half the size of Switzerland. Studies show that previously logged areas were much more susceptible to burning than virgin forest.

A comparison of contributions from indigenous and non-indigenous people to deforestation in Ecuador.

Marine reserves significantly increase adjacent fisheries in most cases.

Describes the controversy over off-road vehicle use in the Grand Staircase/Escalante National Monument.

A poet and philosopher attempts to live in harmony with nature.

A guidebook on no-take marine reserves, providing a synthesis of information on the underlying science, as well as design and implementation issues.

An alarming look at firefighting practices and their environmental consequences.

A report on the Wildlands Project, an attempt to identify an effective network of nature reserves and corridors throughout North America.

Debates over management of the Grand Staircase/Escalante National Monument.

Discusses the benefits of alternatives to intensive logging of tropical forests.

A last visit to a great place by the dean of California nature writers.

A noted landscape planner presents a historical and analytical examination of how humans interact with each other as well as with other organisms and their surroundings.

Just how wet does a wetland have to be? Politicians, developers, and conservationists clash over the definition.

Using GIS-based modeling, the authors evaluate the demographic, economic, physical, and environmental processes in a desert watershed and project the consequences of various land-use planning and management decisions.

Harvesting lowland forests has caused drying and species losses in Montane cloud forests in Costa Rica.

New strategies for planning and management of protected areas.

Reviews the debate over the effects of grazing on range condition and biodiversity conservation.

Restoration of wolves to Yellowstone is praised by ecologists but feared by ranchers.

Dismissed by ranchers as “prairie rats,” prairie dogs may be the key to restoring prairie ecosystems.

Prominent conservation biologists discuss what biodiversity means.

Describes places sacred to Native Americans.