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Fen, bog & swamp [sound recording] : a short history of peatland destruction and its role in the climate crisis / by Proulx, Annie,author.(CARDINAL)514050; Zackman, Gabra,narrator.(CARDINAL)558128;
Read by Gabra Zackman.A lifelong environmentalist, Annie Proulx brings her wide-ranging research and scholarship to the subject of wetlands and the vitally important yet little understood role they play in preserving the environment, by storing the carbon emissions that greatly contribute to climate change. Fens, bogs, swamps, and marine estuaries are the earth's most desirable and dependable resources, and in four stunning parts, Proulx documents the long-misunderstood role of these wetlands in saving the planet. Taking us on a fascinating journey through history, Proulx shows us the fens of 16th-century England to Canada's Hudson Bay lowlands, Russia's Great Vasyugan Mire, America's Okeefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, and the 19th-century explorers who began the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. Along the way, she writes of the diseases spawned in the wetlands, the Ague, malaria, Marsh Fever, and the surprisingly significant role of peat in industrialization.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Audiobooks.; Peatland ecology.; Peatland management.; Climatic changes.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Swamplands : tundra beavers, quaking bogs, and the improbable world of peat / by Struzik, Edward,1954-author.(CARDINAL)354666;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Preface -- Introduction -- The Great Dismal Swamp -- Central Park -- Peat and endangered species -- Tropical peat -- Ash meadows, ancient bogs, and desert fens -- Sasquatches of the swamps -- Peat and reptiles -- Mountain peat -- Ring of fire: the Hudson Bay lowlands -- Pingos, polygons, and frozen peat -- Tundra beavers, saltwater trout, and barren-ground grizzly bears -- Portals to the Otherworld -- "Growing peat" -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- About the author."In a world filled with breathtaking beauty, we have often overlooked the elusive charm and magic of certain landscapes. A cloudy river flows into a verdant Arctic wetland where sandhill cranes and muskoxen dwell. Further south, cypress branches hang low over dismal swamps. Places like these-collectively known as swamplands or peatlands-often go unnoticed for their ecological splendor. They are as globally significant as rainforests, and function as critical carbon sinks for addressing our climate crisis. Yet, because of their reputation as wastelands, they are being systematically drained and degraded to make way for oilsands, mines, farms, and electricity.... Swamplands highlights the unappreciated struggle being waged to save peatlands by scientists, conservationists, and landowners around the world. An ode to peaty landscapes in all their offbeat glory, the book is also a demand for awareness of the myriad threats they face. It urges us to see the beauty and importance in these least likely of places­. Our planet's survival might depend on it"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Swamp ecology.; Peatland ecology.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6
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Peat deposits of the Carolina bays of North Carolina / by Ingram, Roy L.(CARDINAL)162203; Otte, Lee J.(CARDINAL)162202; Witner, Thomas W.;
Includes bibliographical references (page 35).
Subjects: Peatlands; Peat;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Fen, bog & swamp [large print] : a short history of peatland destruction and its role in the climate crisis / by Proulx, Annie,author.(CARDINAL)514050;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-288)."A lifelong environmentalist, Annie Proulx brings her wide-ranging research and scholarship to the subject of wetlands and the vitally important yet little understood role they play in preserving the environment--by storing the carbon emissions that greatly contribute to climate change. Fens, bogs, swamps, and marine estuaries are the earth's most desirable and dependable resources, and in four stunning parts, Proulx documents the long-misunderstood role of these wetlands in saving the planet. Taking us on a fascinating journey through history, Proulx shows us the fens of 16th-century England to Canada's Hudson Bay lowlands, Russia's Great Vasyugan Mire, America's Okeefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, and the 19th-century explorers who began the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. Along the way, she writes of the diseases spawned in the wetlands--the Ague, malaria, Marsh Fever--and the surprisingly significant role of peat in industrialization. A sobering look at the degradation of wetlands over centuries and the serious ecological consequences, this is a stunningly important work and a rousing call to action by a writer whose passionate devotion to understanding and preserving the environment is on full and glorious display."--
Subjects: Large print books.; Fens.; Fens; Swamps.; Swamps; Bogs.; Bogs; Peatlands.; Peatlands; Wetlands.; Wetlands;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 8
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Fen, bog & swamp : a short history of peatland destruction and its role in the climate crisis / by Proulx, Annie,author.;
Why fens, bogs and swamps? -- Discursive thoughts on wetlands -- The English fens -- Bogs -- Swamps -- Acknowledgments -- Notes.From Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx - whose novels are infused with her knowledge and deep concern for the earth - comes an urgent and riveting history of wetlands, their ecological role and how the loss of them threatens the planet. Fens, bogs, swamps and marine estuaries are the earth's most desirable and dependable resources, and in four illuminating parts Proulx documents the emergence of their systemic destruction in the pursuit of profit and the consequent release of their stored carbon.""Proulx was born in the 1930s, a time, as she says, when 'in the ever-continuing name of progress, Western countries busily raped their own and other countries of minerals, timber, fish and wildlife.' Fen, Bog & Swamp is both a revelatory history and an urgent plea for wetland reclamation from a writer whose passionate devotion to observing and preserving the environment is on glorious display."Wide-ranging and idiosyncratic, Proulx's explanation of wetlands takes readers to the fens of sixteenth-century England, Canada's Hudson Bay Lowlands, Russia's Great Vasyugan Mire and America's Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge and introduces the nineteenth-century explorers who launched the ravaging of the Amazon rainforest."
Subjects: Fens.; Fens; Swamps.; Swamps; Bogs.; Bogs; Peatlands.; Peatlands; Wetlands.; Wetlands; Peatland restoration.; Wetland restoration.; Climatic changes.; Environmentalism; Environmentalism;
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Available copies: 30 / Total copies: 31
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Peat deposits of North Carolina / by Ingram, Roy L.(CARDINAL)162203; North Carolina.Geological Survey Section.(CARDINAL)165212;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 62-65).
Subjects: Peatlands; Peat; Fossil fuels;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5
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Mercury in peat and its drainage waters in eastern North Carolina / by Evans, David W.(David William),1947-(CARDINAL)178975; DiGiullio, Richard T.(Richard Thomas),1950-; Ryan, Elizabeth A.(CARDINAL)178977; Water Resources Research Institute of the University of North Carolina.(CARDINAL)150669;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 58-66).
Subjects: Mercury; Groundwater; Peatlands;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Task 1 : alternative peat mining development scenarios / by North Carolina.Coastal Energy Impact Program.(CARDINAL)168445; CEIP Cumulative Impacts of Peat Mining Project.; Water Resources Research Institute of the University of North Carolina.(CARDINAL)150669;
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 98-99).
Subjects: Coastal ecology; Peat industry; Peatland conservation;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Task 2 : environmental assessment of the alternative peat mining development scenarios / by North Carolina.Coastal Energy Impact Program.(CARDINAL)168445; CEIP Cumulative Impacts of Peat Mining Project.; Water Resources Research Institute of the University of North Carolina.(CARDINAL)150669;
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 225-231).
Subjects: Coastal ecology; Peat industry; Peatland conservation;
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Natural features summary and preserve design for Carolina Bays in Bladen and Cumberland Counties, North Carolina / by Weakley, Alan S.(CARDINAL)194710; Scott, S. Kay.(CARDINAL)194711; North Carolina Natural Heritage Program.(CARDINAL)170708; Nature Conservancy (U.S.)(CARDINAL)141505; Earthlines, Inc. (Research Triangle Park, N.C.);
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Conservation of natural resources; Peatlands; Wetland conservation;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 2
On-line resources: https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/3692547; https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/3692547; https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/3692547; https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/3692547; https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/3692547; https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/3692547; https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/3692547; https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/3692547; https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/3692547; https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/3692547; https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/3692547; https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/3692547; https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/3692547; https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/3692547; https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/3692547; https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/3692547; https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/3692547; https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/3692547; https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/3692547; https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/3692547; https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/3692547; https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/3692547; https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/3692547; https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/3692547; https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/3692547; https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/3692547; https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/3692547; https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/3692547; https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/3692547; https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/3692547; https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/3692547; https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/3692547; https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/3692547; https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/3692547; https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/3692547; https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/3692547; https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/3692547; https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/3692547; https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/3692547; https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/3692547; https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/3692547; https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/3692547; https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/3692547; https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/3692547; https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/3692547; https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/3692547; https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/3692547; https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/3692547; https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/3692547; https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/3692547; https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/3692547; https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/3692547;
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