Restoring the Earth

Introduces the diverse dedicated people who are working privately and voluntarily to repair and restore the damaged natural resources that are crucial to life in the present and in the future in the United States Read more Continue reading Read less FROM PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In the general climate of environmental woes there is an occasional ray of light: a chemist pioneers the technology of building marshes in Chesapeake Bay, and botanists re-create the prairie; a chapter of the organization Trout Unlimited clears and stocks a Cape Cod stream; a village in Wisconsin, rejecting federal flood-relief money, moves to a new site above the flood plain. Berger (Nuclear Power: The Unviable Option) describes public-spirited men and women who have worked to repair and restore our damaged natural resources, with varying degress of success. The Nashua River in New Hampshire is improved, though still polluted; results of a toxic waste cleanup in Montague, Mich., are as yet unclear. Turning the devastation of abandoned strip mines into productive land has sometimes succeeded, with the cooperation of officialdom and owners. Berger provides some splendid models for the fight for environmental improvement. November 1
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This book, the result of eight years of interviews and research, reports ecological restoration efforts from Cape Cod to California, from river reclamation to parenting peregrines. Approaches vary as much as the individuals involved, but common to all is an environmental responsibleness and optimism. Berger advocates a popularly based national restoration movement as one environmentally mature solution to the necessity for stewardship at a time when our planet may well be reaching its own ecological ``carrying capacity.'' Recommended. Diane M. Brown, Univ. of Calif. Libs., Berkeley
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