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1 online resource (xvi, 267 pages) : illustrations (some color), color map, portraits (some color) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Inspiration and Vision; Origins of the UC Natural Reserve System; Evolution of the UC Natural Reserves: An Introduction; The History of the UC Natural Reserve System; Principles Guiding the Selection, Operation, and Use of NRS Sites; Donors and Partners; The NRS Mission: Research, Teaching, and Public Service; Northern California Reserves; Heath and Marjorie Angelo Coast Range Reserve; Bodega Marine Reserve; Chickering American River Reserve; Hans Jenny Pygmy Forest Reserve; Jepson Prairie Reserve. |
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Donald and Sylvia McLaughlin Natural ReserveQuail Ridge Reserve; Sagehen Creek Field Station; Stebbins Cold Canyon Reserve; Central California Reserves; Año Nuevo Island Reserve; Blue Oak Ranch Reserve; Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve; Coal Oil Point Natural Reserve; Fort Ord Natural Reserve; Frances Simes Hastings Natural History Reservation; Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve; Kenneth S. Norris Rancho Marino Reserve; Santa Cruz Island Reserve; Sedgwick Reserve; Sierra Nevada Research Station: Yosemite Field Station; Valentine Eastern Sierra Reserve: Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory. |
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Valentine Eastern Sierra Reserve: Valentine CampWhite Mountain Research Center; Younger Lagoon Reserve; Southern California Reserves; Box Springs Reserve; Philip L. Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center; Burns Piñon Ridge Reserve; Dawson Los Monos Canyon Reserve; Elliott Chaparral Reserve; Emerson Oaks Reserve; James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve; Kendall-Frost Mission Bay Marsh Reserve; Motte Rimrock Reserve; San Joaquin Marsh Reserve; Scripps Coastal Reserve; Steele/Burnand Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center; Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains Reserve. |
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Jack and Marilyn Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research CenterFuture Directions for the UC Natural Reserve System; A Clearer Perspective on Global Change; Accomplishing More through Innovative Partnerships; Ensuring the Growth of UC's Reserve System; Literature Cited; Index. |
| Summary |
The UC Natural Reserve System, established in 1965 to support field research, teaching, and public service in natural environments, has become a prototype of conservation and land stewardship looked to by natural resource managers throughout the world. From its modest beginnings of seven sites, the UC NRS has grown to encompass more than 750,000 wildland acres. This book tells the story of how a few forward-thinking UC faculty, who'd had their research plots and teaching spots destroyed by development and habitat degradation, devised a way to save representative examples of many of California' |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
University of California Natural Reserve System -- History.
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University of California Natural Reserve System. |
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History. |
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University of California (System) -- Faculty.
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University of California Natural Reserve System. |
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University of California (System) |
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University of California (System) |
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Natural areas -- California.
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Natural areas. |
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California. |
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Environmental protection -- California.
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Environmental protection. |
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Ecology -- Study and teaching -- California.
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Ecology -- Study and teaching. |
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Natural history -- Study and teaching -- California.
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Natural history -- Study and teaching. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Fiedler, Peggy Lee.
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Rumsey, Susan Gee.
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Wong, Kathleen M. (Kathleen Michelle)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Environmental legacy of the UC natural reserve system. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2013 (DLC) 2012014651 |
| ISBN |
9780520953642 (electronic book) |
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0520953649 (electronic book) |
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0520272005 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520272002 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9781283804301 (MyiLibrary) |
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1283804301 (MyiLibrary) |
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9780520272002 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
