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books:

Ogallala Blue: Water and Life on the High Plains

4 reviews
William Ashworth

Countryman, 2007

Water on the High Plains
I spent my summers in the 1950's as a child on my grandmother's farm in western Kansas. I was always fascinated by the abundant water flowing out of the Caterpillar irrigation pump. It was frigidly cold on a west Kansas 100 degree day. My uncles would put a watermelon in a burlap bag and suspend it under the discharge water from the pump. The water could not have been much more than 60 ...

Penguins, Puffins And Auks: Their Lives and Behavior

1 review
William Ashworth

Crown, 1993

Great Pictures - Especially of the Leopard Seal
Great Coffee Table Book especially for those who love the elusive Leopard Seal.

The Wallowas: Coming of Age in the Wilderness (Northwest Reprints)
William Ashworth

Oregon State University Press, 1998

THE ECONOMY OF NATURE: Rethinking the Connections between Ecology and Economics
William Ashworth

Houghton Mifflin, 1995

Offering a blueprint for a prosperous, greener world, a new approach to ecology and economics declares that humanity cannot have one without the other and must stop viewing environmental destruction as morally wrong and start seeing it as fiscally irresponsible.

Great Lakes Journey: A New Look at America's Freshwater Coast (Great Lakes Books)

1 review
William Ashworth

Wayne State University Press, 2003

The Late, Great Lakes are still kicking.
15 years after his journey around the Great Lakes region, recorded in his almost famous book "The Late, Great Lakes", Ashworth made a return trip to review the state of things. "Great Lakes Journey" is an account of this second visit, during which he explores many of the same issues covered in his first book, visits with many of the same people that he interviewed 15 years prior, and tries to ...

The Left Hand of Eden: Meditations on Nature and Human Nature

1 review
William Ashworth

Oregon State University Press, 1999

excellent read, fascinating topic...
I would highly recommnend this book to anyone interested in the environment, but more importantly, anyone interested in the idea of "saving" the environment. Ashworth very nobly explores man's vision of what "nature" should be and what conservation should mean. Through his own experiences and wisdom, he deftly tells it like it is and though this may seem a turnoff to many, he doesn't aggravate ...

The Late, Great Lakes: An Environmental History (Great Lakes Books)

3 reviews
William Ashworth

Wayne State University Press, 1987

Timothy Mikolay
During the summer of 1999, it was reported that Lake Erie would be 10-18 inches lower than normal and that boaters should be aware of this change. Did anyone bother to ask why, because the papers certainly didn't bother to research the matter. If you would like to know, then read this book. It provides some possible conclusions as to why a major lake like Erie would suffer such a drastic loss of ...

Bears: Their Life And Behavior: A PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDY OF THE NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES
William Ashworth

Crown, 1992

Bears are unique. Although they are the world's largest carnivores, their diet is primarily vegetarian. They combine immense physical power with one of the keenest intelligences in the animal kingdom. They refuse to knuckle under to any kind of human domination. That is why we are tremendously fascinated by bears and tremendously fearful of them. Bears: Their Life and Behavior is a superb photographic study by Art Wolfe, one of the world's ...