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246 public-domain environmental issues books, summarised. Page 6 of 6.
Mammals of the Grand Mesa, Colorado
Sydney Anderson
The Grand Mesa of Colorado stands as an isolated, high-altitude island, supporting a unique collection of creatures surrounded by the arid lowlands. This survey documents the mammalian life that thrives in that cool, elevated sanctuary.
Report of the Sanitary Committee of the Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London, together with a report of the Medical Officer of Health on the objections raised by the Butchers' Trade Society to the bye-laws proposed for the regulation of slaughter-houses
W. Sedgwick (William Sedgwick) Saunders
HOOK This report documents a heated 1876 collision between London’s public health mandates and the entrenched, unsanitary practices of the city’s private slaughter-house industry.
Seventeen Species of Bats Recorded from Barro Colorado Island, Panama Canal Zone
E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond) Hall
This specialized account documents the diversity and habits of seventeen distinct bat species on Barro Colorado Island, providing a foundational snapshot of tropical mammalian ecology in the mid-twentieth century.
The Mammals of Warren Woods, Berrien County, Michigan: Occasional Paper of the Museum of Zoology, Number 86
Lee R. (Lee Raymond) Dice
This technical survey preserves a vanishing moment in the Michigan wilderness, cataloging the small, scurrying lives that define a forest’s ecological health before human encroachment erases their original patterns.
The Salmon Fishery of Penobscot Bay and River in 1895-96
Hugh M. (Hugh McCormick) Smith
HOOK This report captures the waning days of 19th-century Atlantic salmon fishing, documenting how traditional river weirs and emerging state-sponsored hatcheries defined the life of the Penobscot.
The Great Mississippi Flood of 1874: Its Extent, Duration, and Effects
Louis Alfred Wiltz
A massive, man-made crisis unfolds as the Mississippi River bursts its banks, leaving seventy thousand citizens to face the threat of starvation in the wake of a historic, state-altering inundation.