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PRAISE
"If 'Rewilding North America' can’t stop the rising tide of
extinction, then nothing will.
Realistic in its assessment of the causes of extinction and
the challenges ahead, Foreman’s ethically leavened and
scientifically grounded arguments for rewilding promote
hope.
More than a ‘book of the year,’ Rewilding North America
makes clear the conservation and restoration agenda for the
century.”
--Max Oelschlaeger, author of The Idea of Wilderness
"You know that proverbial squirrel that could walk halfway
across the continent without ever leaving a tree?
Dave Foreman is plotting to make sure it happens again--a
long time in the future doubtless, but if we get behind his
efforts it will be a real possibility."
--Bill McKibben
author of Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered
Age
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Rewilding North America, by
Dave Foreman
"Rewilding North America is a must-read for anyone who cares
about protecting our natural heritage for the benefit--for the very
sustainability--of future generations."
--Mike Matz, Executive Director, Campaign for America's
Wilderness
 Paperback:
219 pages
Publisher: Island Press (July 1, 2004)
ISBN: 1559630612
Product Dimensions: 9.0 x 6.3 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces.
Overview
In Rewilding North America, Dave Foreman sets out a vision that
is bold, scientifically credible, practically achievable, and
hopeful. It is a vision and strategy based on the functional role of
large carnivores in maintaining and restoring healthy ecosystems and
the need for conservation action on a continental-scale. To give you
a taste of it, here is the Table of Contents:
Part I. Bad News
1. The Extinction Crisis
2. The Pleistocene-Holocene Event: Forty Thousand years of
Extinction
3. The First Wave of the Pleistocene-Holocene Event
4. The Second and Third Waves of the Pleistocene-Holocene Event
5. Ecological Wounds of North America: Direct Killing and Habitat
Loss
6. Ecological Wounds of North America: Fragmentation, Loss of
Ecological Processes, Exotic Species, Pollution, and Climate Change
Part II. Good News
7. Conservation Biology
8. Rewilding North America
9. Selecting and Designing Protected Areas: The Early Days
10. Selecting and Designing Protected Areas: The Past Two Decades
11. The Importance of Wilderness Areas
Part III. Taking Action
12. Putting the Pieces Together: Building a North America
Wildlands Network
13. An Ecological Approach to Wilderness Area Selection and Design
14. Land Management Reforms for Implementing the North American
Wildlands Network
15. Hope for the Future
Order
Rewilding North America: A Vision for 21st Century Conservation
Today!
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