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The spine of the continent : the most ambitious wildlife conservation project ever undertaken / Mary Ellen Hannibal.

by Hannibal, Mary Ellen.

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Guilford, Conn. : Lyons Press, c2012.

Wildlife conservation -- North America.

Wildlife conservation -- Rocky Mountains Region.

Wilderness areas -- North America.

Wilderness areas -- Rocky Mountains Region.

9780762772148 :

xv, 272 p. : maps ; 24 cm.

pt. 1. America's next best idea. Bear with me ; They paved paradise ; Reptile brain ; The disappearance ; A science of love and death ; The real work ; Triple crown -- pt. 2. Cores, carnivores, and corridors on the spine. Leave it to beaver ; Holy cow ; Not hunting ; Take it from the top ; Wolf sign ; Borderline ; There ought to be a law -- pt. 3. Congratulations, you've won climate change. Picka pika ; Eyes in the sky ; Welcome home.

As climate change encroaches, animals and plants around the globe are having their habitats pulled out from under them. At the same time, human development has made islands out of even our largest nature reserves, stranding the biodiversity other lives within them. The Spine of the Continent introduces readers to the most ambitious wildlife conservation effort ever undertaken: to create linked protected areas extending from the Yukon to Mexico, the entire length of North America. -- Jacket, p. [2]

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