Eco-Tracking : On the Trail of Habitat Change
by Shaw, DanielFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2010-12-15
Publisher(s): Univ of New Mexico Pr
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Summary
Eco-Tracking shows the interconnections of small regional ecosystems to larger ones, and in the process demonstrate the accessibility of nature to everyone. The story of the environment is too often told as one about despair and destruction, which suggests to children that all is lost and everything was better back in the day. No quicker way to alienate students. Shaw teaches that there is much hope in the natural world that exists at their feet. This book tells true life success stories of young people involved in "citizen science" efforts and how others can join in tracking climate change, local wildlife, and other parts of the natural world.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Becoming a Citizen Scientist and Eco-tracker | p. 1 |
| Sidebar: Map Your Habitat | p. 8 |
| Sidebar: Map Your Neighborhood's Wild Habitat | p. 9 |
| Sidebar: Sustainable Living | p. 10 |
| Out Your Door and into the Environment | p. 13 |
| Sidebar: Maintaining a Field Journal | p. 16 |
| Sidebar: Keeping Species Lists | p. 20 |
| Sidebar: Reading the Land | p. 22 |
| Ecological Drivers Change Habitat | p. 27 |
| Activity Sidebar: Build a Weather Station | p. 37 |
| Habitat and Wildlife | p. 39 |
| Activity Sidebar: Make a Track Pit | p. 51 |
| Biological Diversity | p. 53 |
| Activity Sidebar: Setting Pitfall Traps | p. 61 |
| Healing a Wounded Land | p. 63 |
| Activity Sidebar: Joining Forces for a Better Environment | p. 72 |
| Further Information | p. 73 |
| Glossary | p. 75 |
| Illustration Credits | p. 81 |
| Index | p. 83 |
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