Fens, bogs, swamps and marine estuaries are the earth's most desirable and dependable resources, and in four illuminating parts Proulx documents the emergence of their systemic destruction in the pursuit of profit and the consequent release of their stored carbon. Wide-ranging and idiosyncratic, Proulx's explanation of wetlands takes readers to the fens of sixteenth-century England, Canada's Hudson Bay Lowlands, Russia's Great Vasyugan Mire and America's...

Examines the different types of wetlands and the plant and animal life they support.

The vast wetland paradise known as The Marsh is teeming with cute and curious insects and animals of all kinds. The Marsh is home to community. In this little colony, residents face a variety of challenges, but caring adventure, a dash of danger, a great deal of whimsy, and a strong sense of neighbors always come through when the going gets tough!

A simple description of what a wetland is and what kinds of life can be found in it.

The history of the Everglades is a dramatic yet little known story of humanity's attempt to conquer nature. This program, told through the lives of a handful of colorful and resolute characters, explores the repeated efforts to reclaim, control and transform what was seen as a vast wasteland into an agricultural and urban paradise, and, ultimately, the drive to preserve America's greatest wetland.

Discusses the wetland biome and how it is affected by the environment and people.

A nature journal of New Hampshire wetlands life, from an author Annie Dillard calls "a national treasure."

Following the Water is the intensely observed chronicle of a naturalist's annual March-to-November wetlands immersion—from the joy of the first turtle sighting in March to the gorgeously described, vibrant trilling of tree frogs in late May to the ancient sense of love and loss experienced each autumn, when

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A lonely girl finds a friend when she and her grandfather rescue a wounded crane.