5/29/22 - A Selection of Recently Published Books on the Environment or Outdoors
1493 - © by Charles C. Mann (2011), pages 40-41 - (By 1500...) "Using fire, indigenous people in the Americas cleared big areas for agriculture and hunting as shown on this map of North America’s eastern seaboard. European diseases caused a population crash across the hemisphere – and an extraordinary ecological rebound as forests filled in abandoned fields and settlements. (By 1650...) The end of native burning and the massive reforestation drew so much carbon dioxide from the air that an increasing number of researchers believes it was a main driver of the three-century cold snap known as the little ice age."
The First Americans – Prehistory-1600 © 2003 (textbook) by Joy Hakim page 83: “It now seems certain that occasional visits of Asian people to the Americas occurred between the 7th and the 15th centuries, bringing to the New World ideas, knowledge, and artifacts,” writes historian Geoffrey Parker.
For more information on Chinese visits to the Americas around 1421-22, refer to the following book: “1421 – The Year China Discovered America, © 2003 by Gavin Menzies.
Adventures in the Anthropocene - by Gaia Vince (c) 2014 - A journey to the heart of the planet we made - The following passages from pages 4 & 5 will give you an idea of content: Geologists are calling this epoch the Anthropocene, recognising that humanity has become a geophysical force on a par with the earth-shattering asteroids and planet-cloaking volcanoes that defined past eras. Earth is now a human planet. We decide whether a forest stands or is razed, whether pandas survive or go extinct, how and where a river flows, even vthe temperature of the atmosphere.
Trees of Arkansas - A new color edition of the Arkansas Forestry Commission book is now available for $5 at forestry.arkansas.gov (2014)
A Century of Conservation - 1915 - 2015 - (c) 2014 - Arkansas Game and Fish Commission - $20
Your Water Footprint by Stephen Leahy - (c) 2014 - Firefly Books - statistics on water usage
Guide to the Trails of Petit Jean State Park - (c) 2014 - 62 pgs by Matthew Moran, biology professor at Hendrix; $6.99 Amazon Kindle, $8.99 MoranBooks.com - Refer to the Conway Log Cabin Democrat 9/4/14, page 1, for a review of the book. ...The author is now working on another book: Big Woods of Arkansas
9/9/15 - This week the film A Walk in the Woods, based on Bill Bryson’s 1998 best-selling book, comes out in theaters. Sierra Club radio host Orli Cotel spoke with director Ken Kwapis about working (and walking) in the woods with Hollywood icons Robert Redford and Nick Nolte, and how the film changed his relationship to the outdoors. For excerpt from their interview, CLICK HERE.