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Tired of living on a failing farm and suffering oppressive poverty, bored housewife Dellarobia Turnbow, on the way to meet a potential lover, is detoured by a miraculous event on the Appalachian mountainside that ignites a media and religious firestorm that changes her life forever.
Publisher
Earth Images Foundation
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
The Klamath-Siskiyou ecoregion, straddling the border between California and Oregon, is a wonderland of biodiversity and one of the world's most important temperate forest regions. Filmed in more than a dozen wilderness areas and national monuments, this documentary showcases the Klamath-Siskiyou's natural splendor and illustrates why the area is recognized as a globally significant bioregion. In spite of the impact of more than a century of resource...
5) Meru
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Three renowned climbers navigate nature's harshest elements and their own complicated inner demons to ascend Mount Meru, the most technically complicated and dangerous peak in the Himalayas.
8) The mountain encyclopedia: an A-Z compendium of more than 2,300 terms, concepts, ideas, and people
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Publisher
Scarecrow Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
9) Conifer Country: A natural history and hiking guide to 35 conifers of the Klamath Mountain region
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Backcountry Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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D. Begnoche
Pub. Date
c1999
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English
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Siskiyou Sundays is a guide for the weekend enthusiast, for the casual traveler into the countryside who would like a companion to point the way and provide a starting point to understand the birth, maturity and senescence of southwestern Oregon's botanical and geological landscape.
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Oregon State University Press
Pub. Date
©1998
Language
English
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For twenty-five years, Mary Paetzel roamed the Siskiyou Mountains of southern Oregon, tracking rare plants and insects and recording her experiences in a series of illustrated journals. A rugged land of peaks, canyons, and rushing rivers, the Siskiyous are renowned for their unusual plant life. Traversing logging roads in an old Volkswagen bus and hiking the high country, this self-taught naturalist came to know the Siskiyous as few ever have.
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University of California Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
"A compelling story of place, Steward's Fork explores northwest California's magnificent Klamath Mountains--a region that boasts a remarkable biodiversity, a terrain so rugged that significant landscape features are still being discovered there, and a wealth of natural resources that have been used, and more recently abused, by humans for millennia. James K. Agee, a forest ecologist with more than fifty years experience in the Klamaths, provides a...
15) Dirty dancing
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1963, innocent 17-year old France, known as "Baby," vacations with her parents at a Catskills resort. There she meets Johnny, the hotel dance instructor, who is as experienced as Baby is naive. Baby soon becomes Johnny's pupil in dance and love.
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English
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In one of his first books, "The Mountains of California", John Muir, famed naturalist, environmentalist, and author, recounts his travels through the Sierra Nevada Mountains and Yosemite Valley. First published in 1894, "The Mountains of California" is a captivating and vivid portrait of the raw beauty of this spectacular place. He takes the readers on a tour of the wonders that abound, writing "Go where you may within the bounds of California, mountains...
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PBS
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
On April 25, 2015 a devastating earthquake rocked Nepal, wiping out villages and leaving thousands dead. Through eyewitness footage, expert interviews, and stunning graphics, NOVA reveals the anatomy of this megaquake while scientists race to answer urgent questions: Is another big one just around the corner? What can we learn from the deadly combination of earthquakes and landslides? And can we rebuild to survive the next big one?
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Publisher
Patagonia
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
During a time when most wild animals are experiencing decline in the face of development and climate change, the intrepid mountain lion -- also known as a puma, a cougar, and by many other names - has experienced reinvigoration as well as expansion of territory. What makes this cat, the fourth carnivore in the food chain -- just ahead of humans - so resilient and resourceful? And what can conservationists and wild life managers learn from them about...
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