The Rouge River Valley
An Urban Wilderness
The Rouge River Valley, eleven thousand acres of urban wilderness, is a unique, yet very fragile and transient natural phenomenon existing within the confines of a major North American city, Toronto. Fed by the Oak Ridges Moraine, the Rouge river system has, over generations of time, cut its identity into the land, shaping the habitat for a multitude of lifeforms, many of which are now either threatened or gone. Author James E. Garratt, a seasoned environmentalist, shares two decades of personal observation and ecological study to reveal the richness and flow of seasonal changes in this exceptional urban park. This portrait of a year in the R…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-55488-281-6
- EAN: 9781554882816
- Produktnummer: 20460556
- Verlag: Dundurn
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Seitenangabe: 160 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 9'063 KB
Über den Autor
James E. Garratt lives near Kleinburg, Ontario, about 20 miles northwest of Toronto. He works as an Outdoor Educator and also as a natural history writer. Literature of the wilderness and environmental activism are two of his main interests. Amateur astronomy, ham radio, music, canoeing, hiking, and sailing are some of his other pursuits.
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