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Title The new encyclopedia of Southern culture. Volume 8, Environment / Martin Melosi, volume editor.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 293 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Note "Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Animals -- Aquatic life, freshwater -- Birds and birding -- Climate and weather -- Coastal marshes -- Dams -- Endangered species -- Energy use and development -- Environmental justice -- Environmental movements -- Flood control and drainage -- Forests -- Gardens and gardening -- Indians and the environment -- Insects -- Invasive and alien species (floral and faunal) -- Land use -- Marine environment, fish and fisheries -- Natural disasters -- Natural resources -- Naturalists -- Parks and recreation ares -- Plants -- Plant uses -- Pollution -- Reclamation and irrigation -- Rivers and lakes -- Roads and trails -- Shellfish -- Soil and soil conservation -- Streams and steamboats -- Swamps -- Tennessee Valley Authority -- Trees -- Water use -- Wetlands.
Air-conditioning -- Alligators and crocodiles -- Walter Inglis Anderson -- Appalachian coal region -- Appalachian Mountains -- Armadillo -- Assateague Island National Seashore -- Atchafalaya Basin Swamp -- John James Audubon -- Azaleas -- William Bartram -- Big Bend National Park -- Big Thicket -- Biscayne National Park -- Blue Ridge Mountains -- Cancer Alley (Louisiana) -- Cape Lookout National Seashore -- Catfish -- Chesapeake Bay -- Cumberland Island and Little Cumberland Island -- Cypress -- Dogwood, flowering -- Dry Tortugas -- Florida Everglades -- Florida Keys -- Florida panther -- Galveston Bay -- Great Smoky Mountains -- Guadalupe Mountains National Park -- Winslow Homer -- Hot Springs National Park -- Ivory-Billed Woodpecker -- Kudzu -- Lightwood -- Live Oak -- Magnolia -- Mammoth Cave National Park -- Mississippi River -- Mockingbird -- Benjamin Franklin Chavis Muhammad -- John Muir -- Natchez Trace -- Nuclear pollution -- Eugene P. Odum -- Offshore oil industry -- Oil pollution -- Okefenokee Swamp -- Opossum ("possum") -- Outer Banks -- Ozarks -- Padre Island National Seashore -- Palm trees -- Persimmon -- Red River Expedition -- Rio Grande -- Sassafras -- Shenandoah Valley -- Spanish moss -- Tellico Dam -- Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway -- Warren County, N.C. -- Wilson Dam.
Summary New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 8: Environment.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Southern States -- Environmental conditions -- Encyclopedias.
Southern States.
Environmental conditions.
Genre/Form Encyclopedias.
Subject Environmental policy -- Southern States -- Encyclopedias.
Environmental policy.
Southern States -- Description and travel -- Encyclopedias.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Encyclopedias.
Added Author Melosi, Martin V., 1947-
University of Mississippi. Center for the Study of Southern Culture.
Added Title Environment
Other Form: Print version: Environment 9780807831700 (DLC) 2007700134 (OCoLC)171056494
ISBN 9781469616605 (electronic book)
1469616602 (electronic book)
9781469616612
1469616610
9780807831700
0807831700
9780807858561
0807858560