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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Through carefully chosen stories from the olden days and art that meticulously reflects traditional designs and colors, Goble provides wonderful insights into the spiritual life of the Plains Indians. His intimate knowledge of their world transports the reader into a vision of the sacred beauty and wisdom that defined traditional Native America.
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In The Whale and the Supercomputer, scientists and natives wrestle with our changing climate in the land where it has hit first-and hardest
A traditional Eskimo whale-hunting party races to shore near Barrow, Alaska-their comrades trapped on a floe drifting out to sea-as ice that should be solid this time of year gives way. Elsewhere, a team of scientists transverses the tundra, sleeping in tents, surviving on frozen chocolate, and measuring the...
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The biologist and award-winning author journeys deep inside the Amazon rainforest in this eloquent and insightful look at one of earth's last wild places.
For thirty years, biologist David G. Campbell has been exploring the lush wilderness, of the western Amazon, which contains more species than ever existed anywhere on our planet. In A Land of Ghosts, Campbell takes readers on his latest venture.
In Cruzeiro do Sul, 2,800 miles from the mouth of...
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"An inspired weaving of indigenous knowledge, plant science, and personal narrative from a distinguished professor of science and a Native American whose previous book, Gathering Moss, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing. As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders,...
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General technical report PNW volume 923
Publisher
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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General technical report PNW volume 879
Publisher
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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General technical report PNW volume GTR-944
Publisher
United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station
Pub. Date
October 2016.
Language
English
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U.S. Geological Survey circular volume 1396
Publisher
U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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U.S. Geological Survey open-file report volume 2017-1043
Publisher
U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English