Metropolitan Library System

Traces the conservation movement by ranchers, farmers, river workers, and fishermen who in spite of separating themselves from political environmentalism are helping to restore and protect America's grasslands, wildlife, wetlands, and oceans.

"First published in 1949 and praised in the New York Times Book Review as "full of beauty and vigor and bite," A Sand County almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land. As the forerunner to such important books as Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire, and Robert Finch's The Primal Place, this classic work remains...

In this inspiring manifesto, an internationally renowned ecologist makes a clear case for why protecting nature is our best health insurance, and why it makes economic sense.

"A young sapling sprouts! It's excited about its new world. It yearns to connect with all things that pass by. Unfortunately, human beings are too busy, So it patiently waits and watches for a thousand years. Follow its magical journey as humanity evolves and trees slowly begin to disappear. Until... a girl far in the future finds the seeking tree. With your help, she can change the course of history!" --

"A small rural Wisconsin community restores publicly-owned land that has become a dumping ground into a nature trail joining an elementary school and the public library and crossing three distinct ecosystems"--