02973cam a2200313 4500 547466490 TxAuBib 20220131120000.0 ||||||s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781642830811 164283081X B09FFKQ7G6 Amazon 1a57154c-d8db-4049-a0e9-82a55cbbe7b2 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 6489396 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Struzik, Edward. Swamplands [Libby] : Tundra Beavers, Quaking Bogs, and the Improbable World of Peat. Island Press, 2021. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 5910kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Nature. Nonfiction. HTML:In a world filled with breathtaking beauty, we have often overlooked the elusive charm and magic of certain landscapes. A cloudy river flows into a verdant Arctic wetland where sandhill cranes and muskoxen dwell. Further south, cypress branches hang low over dismal swamps. Places like these–collectively known as swamplands or peatlands–often go unnoticed for their ecological splendor. They are as globally significant as rainforests, and function as critical carbon sinks for addressing our climate crisis. Yet, because of their reputation as wastelands, they are being systematically drained and degraded to make way for oilsands, mines, farms, and electricity.<br /> <br /> In <i>Swamplands</i>, journalist Edward Struzik celebrates these wild places, venturing into windswept bogs in Kauai and the last remnants of an ancient peatland in the Mojave Desert. The secrets of the swamp aren't for the faint of heart. Ed loses a shoe to an Arctic wolf and finds himself ankle-deep in water during a lightning storm. But, the rewards are sweeter for the struggle: an enchanting Calypso orchid; an elusive yellow moth thought to be extinct; ancient animals preserved in lifelike condition down to the fur.<br /> <br /> <i>Swamplands</i> highlights the unappreciated struggle being waged to save peatlands by scientists, conservationists, and landowners around the world. An ode to peaty landscapes in all their offbeat glory, the book is also a demand for awareness of the myriad threats they face. It urges us to see the beauty and importance in these least likely of places­. Our planet's survival might depend on it. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-01-30 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=1a57154c-d8db-4049-a0e9-82a55cbbe7b2&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=1a57154c-d8db-4049-a0e9-82a55cbbe7b2&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=1a57154c-d8db-4049-a0e9-82a55cbbe7b2&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)