Download PDF by Philip Garone: The Fall and Rise of the Wetlands of California's Great

By Philip Garone

ISBN-10: 0520266633

ISBN-13: 9780520266636

This is often the 1st accomplished environmental historical past of California’s nice crucial Valley, the place broad freshwater and tidal wetlands as soon as supplied severe habitat for thousands and thousands of migratory waterfowl. Weaving jointly ecology, grassroots politics, and public coverage, Philip Garone tells how California’s wetlands have been approximately obliterated by way of great irrigation and reclamation initiatives, yet were introduced again from the edge of overall destruction through the geared up efforts of duck hunters, whistle-blowing scientists, and a vast coalition of conservationists. Garone examines the various calls for which were made at the Valley’s traditional assets, particularly by way of large-scale agriculture, and strains the unexpected ecological outcomes of our unrestrained manipulation of nature. He additionally investigates altering public and clinical attitudes which are now ushering in an period of unheard of safeguard for natural world and wetlands in California and the kingdom.

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Pluteus romellii, p. 320 22) Cap gray to brown; stem not yellow...................................................................................... 23 23) Cap gray to brownish gray, small (1–3 cm), prominently lined with cracks and fissures extending from the margin nearly to the center................................................ Pluteus longistriatus, p. 318 23) Cap brown, size varying, not lined........................................................................................ 24 25 26 Identification Keys 24) Cap small (1–4 cm), often with a striking veined pattern over the center...................................

Weber. 1979. How to know the gilled mushrooms. Dubuque: Wm. C. Brown. ———. 1981. How to know the non-gilled mushrooms. Dubuque: Wm. C. Brown. 21 4 Identification Keys A Key to Major Groups of Mushrooms 1) Mushroom with gills or false gills............................................................................................ 2 1) Mushroom without gills.......................................................................................................... 6 2) Growing shelf-like on wood; mushroom tough and leathery, corky, or woody (try tearing it in half ); gills tough and hard (sometimes slot-like or maze-like)....................................................

7 6) Mushroom without pores........................................................................................................ 8 Identification Keys 7) Mushroom growing on the ground; cap and stem clearly defined; cap usually more or less round in outline................................................................. Key J, Terrestrial Pored Mushrooms, p. Key K, Pored Mushrooms on Wood, p. 62 8) Mushroom with spines or “teeth” either on the underside of a cap, or hanging from a branched structure, or clumped together in an indistinct mass..................................................................

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