Roadside Use of Native Plants - Softcover

Harper-Lore, Bonnie L.; Wilson, Maggie

 
9781559638371: Roadside Use of Native Plants
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1559638370 ISBN 13: 9781559638371
Verlag: Island Press, 2000

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Originally published by the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), Office of Natural Environment to promote the planting and care of native plants along highway rights-of-way, this unique handbook provides managers of roadsides and adjacent lands with the information and background they need to make site-specific decisions about what kinds of native plants to use, and addresses basic techniques and misconceptions about using native plants. It brings together in a single volume a vast array of detailed information that has, until now, been scattered and difficult to find. The book opens with eighteen short essays on principles of ecological restoration and management from leading experts in the field including Reed F. Noss, J. Baird Callicott, Peggy Olwell, and Evelyn Howell. Following that is the heart of the book, more than 500 pages of comprehensive state-by-state listings that offer: - a colour map for each state with natural vegetations zones clearly marked - comprehensive lists of native plants, broken down by type of plant (grasses, forbs, trees, etc.) and including both scientific and common names, with each list having been verified for c

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Edited by Bonnie L. Harper-Lore and Maggie Wilson

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Verlag
Island Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1559638370
ISBN 13 
9781559638371
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
665
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