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Peggy L. Fiedler, Susan Gee Rumsey, Kathleen Wong, "The Environmental Legacy of the UC Natural Reserve System"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0520272005 | EPUB | pages: 286 | 44.7 mb
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 Descriptions and teaching spots destroyed by development and habitat degradation, devised a way to save representative examples of many of California's major ecosystems. Working together with conservation-minded donors and landowners, with state and federal agencies, and with land trusts and private conservation organizations, they founded what would become the world's largest university-administered natural reserve system―a legacy of lasting significance and utility.