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Agroforestry Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) Michigan History Climatic changes Conservation of natural resources Michigan History Coppice forest ecology Forest conservation Michigan History Forest fires Environmental aspects Forest fires History Michigan Public service employment Michigan HistoryFranz, Dale Clarke
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2007
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.483 FRALehto, Steve.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Momentum Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.499 LEH1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.4 LEH
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Crime Mur LehtoCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977 LehKent, Timothy J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Silver Fox Enterprises 2003
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.401 KEN1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL RM 977.401 KEN
Franz, Dale Clarke
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pigeon River Country Association 1985
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.4 FRAMarrin, Albert
Summary: Packed with dramatic stories and compelling photos, this look at the most destructive wildfires in American history teaches us about the past and shows a better way forward to fight forest fires in the future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 634.9 MARSummary: The Metz fire started in the late morning of October 15, 1908, somewhere west of Millersburg, Michigan. Driven by gale force winds, by that night the fire had burned all the way to the Lake Huron shoreline. Several villages were literally incinerated and many residents died. This is the compilation of first and second hand stories of this horrendous event.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Presque Isle County Historical Museum 0000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.4 METSodders, Betty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder Bay Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 363.37 SODSummary: "Northern Michigan is undergoing unprecedented changes in land use, climate, resource extraction, and species distributions. For the last hundred years, the University of Michigan Biological Station has monitored these environmental transformations. Stretching 10,000 acres along Burt and Douglas Lakes in the northern Lower Peninsula and 3,200 acres on Sugar Island near Sault Ste. Marie,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2010
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 578.09774 CHA1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 578.09774 CHA
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Nature NadelhofferMarrin, Albert
Summary: "Wildfires have been part of the American landscape for thousands of years. Forests need fire--it's as necessary to their well-being as soil and sunlight. But some fires burn out of control, destroying everything and everyone in their path. In this book, you'll find out about how and why wildfires happen, how different groups . . . have managed forests and fire, the biggest wildfires in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 634.9 MARSummary: "Selected by specialists at the Archives, Natural Disasters chronicles some of the world's most devastating earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, forest fires and volcanoes. Also recounted are the heroic efforts of relief workers to return cities to normal and the attempts of local governments to better prepare for future events." -- Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Topics Entertainment 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV NATGlover, James M.
Summary: Captivating biography of a giant of the U.S. conservation movement and founder of The Wilderness Society (1935).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mountaineers 1986
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B MARSHALL GLOButterfield, Moira
Summary: Open your senses to a world of wonder by taking a walk through the woods! Set off on an outdoor adventure and find natural treasures, from prickly pine cones to swirly snail shells, then learn more about the plants and creatures of the forest in this fact-filled guide to the outdoors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nosy Crow, an imprint of Candlewick Press 2021
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Summary: "Inspired by the author's grandfather's experiences living in a lodge in the woods, a story of how people and animals survive a forest fire in a small Canadian town"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret Ferguson Books, Farrar Straus Giroux 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 971 BONKrawczyk, Mark
Summary: "Coppice Agroforestry is a comprehensive guide to resprout silviculture--coppicing, pollarding, shredding, and pleaching hardwood trees for firewood, building materials, furniture, basketry, and more. Covers coppice history, biology, ecology, products, woodland economics, and agroforestry system design and management."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Society Publishers 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Camp Forgotten explores the role of the CCC in Michigan. Some of their projects included the building of the Seney National Wildlife Refuge, Caberfae Ski Area, and the transport of moose from Isle Royale to the Upper Peninsula. The only Native American CCC camp in the nation was also in the state, Camp Marquette. Camp Forgotten includes interviews with over a dozen CCC members who vividly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forgotten Films & Video 1993
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Camp Forgotten explores the role of the CCC in Michigan. Some of their projects included the building of the Seney National Wildlife Refuge, Caberfae Ski Area, and the transport of moose from Isle Royale to the Upper Peninsula. The only Native American CCC camp in the nation was also in the state, Camp Marquette. Camp Forgotten includes interviews with over a dozen CCC members who vividly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forgotten Films & Video 1993
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CAMSymon, Charles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: C.A. Symon 1983
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: MI 977 SYMMcGraw, Jennifer S.
Contents: Calendar of events -- Introduction -- The village -- The missions -- Lawless and and French values -- Women and men -- The forts -- Food and starvation -- Life and Michilimackinac -- Traders -- War and migration -- English attack Michilimackinac -- Travel -- Slaves and captives -- Brandy and vices -- Lawless Mackinac -- After.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Word 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.465 SOU1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.465 SOU
Whelan, Gloria
Summary: "In Depression-era northern Michigan, a young boy meets a teenager serving in the Civilian Conservation Corps, the work relief program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to employ millions of young men during the Great Depression"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2021
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Summary: A mirror of great changes that were occurring on the national labor rights scene, the 1913–14 Michigan Copper Strike was a time of unprecedented social upheaval in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. With organized labor taking an aggressive stance against the excesses of unfettered capitalism, the stage was set for a major struggle between labor and management. The Michigan Copper Strike received...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.49 KAUVaillant, John
Summary: Origin stories -- Fire weather -- Reckoning.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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Summary: Reveals the true story of Flint, Michigan's poisoned water supply, describing how the water crisis unfolded in 2014 and the history of racism and segregation that led up to it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 615.9 COOSteffens, Roy H.
Summary: Roster membership for the Grand Army of the republic copied from the original records on file in the Bureau of Records, Lansing Michigan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bureau of Records 0000