Sponenberg, D. Phillip (Dan Phillip)
Contents: Introduction: What heritage breeds are and why they matter -- Some background on breeds -- How heritage breeds fit into landscapes and farms -- Which species is right for you? -- Getting started with heritage breeds -- Basic breed maintenance -- Choosinga heritage breed project for your farm -- The art and science of breeding -- Rescues of breeds, strains, and animals -- Boost your...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Pub Co 2014
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636 SPOHirsch, Rebecca E.
Summary: Around the world, bees pollinate $24 billion worth of crops each year. Without bees, humans would face a drastically reduced diet. We need bees to grow the foods that keep us healthy. But numbers of bees are falling, and that has scientists alarmed. What's causing the decline? Diseases, pesticides, climate change, and loss of habitat are all threatening bee populations. Some bee species are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 595.79 HIRSummary: If oceans continue to warm at the current pace, coral reefs could be wiped out by century's end. But scientists from around the globe are rushing to help corals adapt to changing climate through assisted evolution. Follow scientists as they attempt to crossbreed heat-resistant corals, and even transplant corals' algae, in a race to save the coral reefs from extinction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV REESummary: Examines how modern breeding trends based on the demands for large volume, fast growth, and the cheapest product are leading to extinction of heritage breeds of livestock and why biodiversity is important.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Teen Display, Call number: DVD DOC HOLAnganuzzi, Clara
Summary: "Ayla lives on a beautiful tropical island surrounded by a coral reef. Her mom is a marine biologist, and every day, the two go exploring together. One day, Ayla notices that many of the fish have disappeared, and the once-vibrant corals have turned pale. She and her mom set out to save the corals--but is it too late?"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiger Tales 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ANGRoberts, Callum
Summary: A memoir by the world's leading coral reef scientist, revealing the thrill of diving and the vital science and story of these majestic reefs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2020
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Summary: "From the international bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees. An illuminating manifesto on ancient forests: how they adapt to climate change by passing their wisdom through generations, and why our future lies in protecting them. In his beloved book The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben revealed astonishing discoveries about the social networks of trees and how they communicate....
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Publisher / Publication Date: David Suzuki Institute 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 577.3 WOHSummary: Few things on Earth are as miraculous and vital as seeds, worshipped and treasured since the dawn of humankind. Seed: The Untold Story follows passionate seed keepers protecting our 12,000 year-old food legacy. In the last century, 94 percent of our seed varieties have disappeared. As biotech chemical companies control the majority of our seeds, farmers, scientists, lawyers, and indigenous seed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SEEStrickler, Dale
Summary: This in-depth practical guide shows farmers, ranchers, and gardeners how to reduce the impact of less-than-optimal rainfall on crops and livestock with innovative, yet simple techniques for enhancing the water retention of soil and developing a drought management plan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 631.4 STRZiefert, Harriet
Summary: "Using lilting, rhyming couplets, this book explores the many items that are made from trees. But it doesn't stop there! Kids will also learn about the many uses of live trees--and the environmental danger to trees posed by forest fires, floods, and deforestation. Kids are encouraged to be kind, not only to one another, but to the environment as well"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Red Comet Press 2022
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Summary: Explores what would happen if bees became extinct, and how their extinction would effect not just bees' environment, but the world as a whole.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J595.79 WILSimard, S. (Suzanne)
Summary: "A personal and scientific work on trees, forests, and the author's profound discoveries of tree communication"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Lit SimardKoch, Melissa
Summary: Trees are essential. They provide water, shelter, and food for millions of plant and animal species, including humans. They deliver proven health benefits, and they capture and store carbon, which combats climate change. Yet trees are in trouble. Forests are struggling to adapt to climate change, and deforestation is a major threat. Recently, researchers and citizen scientists made the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 580 KOCSummary: "One of the world's most precious resources is at risk. This timely and emotionally moving film illuminates what is at stake and what can be done to protect the source of nearly all of our food: seeds. Seeds provide the basis for everything from fabric, to food to fuels. Seeds are as essential to life as the air we breathe or water we drink, but given far less attention."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: True Mind 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OPESummary: Documents the conservation scientist author's diving exploration of the Phoenix Islands in an effort to establish an act to preserve the region's healthy and abundant sea life that also addresses the needs of Kiribati's fishing industry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 639.9736 UNDLee-Mäder, Eric
Summary: An in-depth portrait of the endangered North American monarch butterfly describes its life cycle and extraordinary migration and provides instructions for designing monarch-friendly landscapes with plants that provide it nourishment, including milkweed and flowering plants and shrubs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 638 LEEBerwald, Juli
Summary: "Coral reefs are a microcosm of our planet: wondrously diverse, deeply interconnected, and critically imperiled. They sustain entire ecosystems and protect vulnerable coasts. But corals across the planet are in the middle of an unprecedented die-off, beset by warming oceans, pollution, human damage, and their own devastating pandemic. Even under stress, they are out-of-this world gorgeous,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.95 BERSirett, Dawn
Summary: Presents information about farms and farm animals and encourages young readers to move their fingers along special trails in the book.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK 2018
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE SIRStewart, Amy
Summary: "The Japanese practice of forest bathing, shinrin-yoku, changes the levels of stress and pleasure hormones in the body, decreasing cortisol and increasing serotonin. Tree collectors know this. And if being around one tree feels good, their thinking goes, imagine how a hundred trees would feel. In her first botanical nonfiction in more than a decade, Amy Stewart brings us on a captivating tour...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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Summary: Why were the early Christians willing to die to protect a single iota of the creed? Why have the Judeans, Romans, and Persians—among others—seen the Christian creed as a threat to the established social order? In The Creed: Professing the Faith Through the Ages, bestselling author Dr. Scott Hahn recovers and conveys the creed s revolutionary character.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emmaus Road Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 240 HAHFoerster, Vic
Summary: "Essays regarding natural features of Isle Royale National Park and other locations pertaining to trees and nature."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arbutus Press 2017
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Word FoersterUlmer, Mikaila
Summary: "Fifteen-year-old lemonade entrepreneur Mikaila Ulmer shares her advice for life and business"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ULMKrämer, Eva-Maria.
Summary: "Discusses the appearance, origin, and temperament of more than two hundred dog breeds categorized into groups according to the tasks they were originally bred for, including herding dogs, hunting dogs, sled dogs, lap dogs, and more"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 2014
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Summary: "Simple text and full-color photographs describe Irish Wolfhounds"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2016