This no-holds-barred narrative of the failure of conservation in northern New England’s

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This book weaves together an enormous amount of information from many disciplines

Douglas Brinkley, Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Richard

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The rate of habitat destruction caused by human land use and climate change is accelerating.

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