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Discovering Alabama Wetlands
Phillips, Doug, Falls, Robert P.
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Description for Discovering Alabama Wetlands
Hardcover. This volume celebrates Alabama's wetlands, with photographs and data-rich text that illustrates the natural beauty of these special places and also examines their vital role in filtering toxins, nourishing aquifers and preventing flooding. It sounds a warning for fragile, dwindling wetlands. Num Pages: 128 pages, 100 colour photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBSB; PSAF; RGBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 279 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1025.
This visually stunning portrait of Alabama's many diverse wetland habitats and their associated plants and animals is a passionate plea for their thoughtful care and protection. Alabama could easily be called the ""Aquatic State,"" It has an abundant supply of rain with countless streams, rivers, lakes, swamps, bogs, bottomlands, and bays that capture and channel this freshwater. An estimated 20 percent of the nation's total freshwater works its way through this small physical land area that ranges from the temperate foothills of the Appalachians to the semitropical Gulf coast. Alabama's varied watery realms have harbored and continue to sustain a ... Read more
This visually stunning portrait of Alabama's many diverse wetland habitats and their associated plants and animals is a passionate plea for their thoughtful care and protection. Alabama could easily be called the ""Aquatic State,"" It has an abundant supply of rain with countless streams, rivers, lakes, swamps, bogs, bottomlands, and bays that capture and channel this freshwater. An estimated 20 percent of the nation's total freshwater works its way through this small physical land area that ranges from the temperate foothills of the Appalachians to the semitropical Gulf coast. Alabama's varied watery realms have harbored and continue to sustain a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University Alabama Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Alabama, United States
ISBN
9780817311711
SKU
V9780817311711
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Ref
99-15
About Phillips, Doug, Falls, Robert P.
Doug Phillips is Coordinator for Environmental Information and Education with the Alabama Museum of Natural History and producer of the award-winning Public Television series Discovering Alabama. Robert P. Falls Sr. is a professional photographer specializing in wildlife and nature whose work has been featured in many national publications and whose book Exploring Gulf Islands National Seashore was published by Globe ... Read more
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