Alan C. Ziegler. Hawaiian Natural History, Ecology, and Evolution. University of Hawai`i Press: 2002. xviii + 477 pages (including index). $59.00 cloth. Anyone working in the environmental field in Hawai`i will sooner or later (and almost always sooner) cross the … Continued
Welfare Ranching: The Subsidized Destruction of the American West. Edited by George Wuerthner and Mollie Matteson. Published in 2002 by the Foundation for Deep Ecology; distributed by Island Press. xv + 345 pages. Introduction by Douglas R. Tompkins. $75 cloth. … Continued
Daniel Pauly and Jay Maclean. In a Perfect Ocean: The State of Fisheries and Ecosystems in the North Atlantic Ocean. Island Press: 2003. 175 pages (including index). $50.00 cloth; $25.00 paper. To many involved in fisheries manage-ment, the North Atlantic … Continued
Ferns, Fungi, and Frightening Things Daniel D. Palmer. Hawai`i’s Ferns and Fern Allies. University of Hawai`i Press: 2003. 324 pages (including index). $60.00 cloth. How do you tell an Australian tree fern (aggressive invader) from one of Hawai`i’s natives? To … Continued
Sugar changed the face of the Hawaiian Islands, but water was the instrument of that change. Dam by dam, tunnel by tunnel, ditch by ditch, the sugar plantations transformed the landscape in a process that, retrospectively, is breathtaking in its … Continued
David Helvarg, The War Against the Greens: The “Wise-Use” Movement, the New Right, and Anti-Environmental Violence. Sierra Club Books: San Francisco, 1994. 512 pages. $25.00 (cloth). In recent years, dozens of high-profile environmental activists across the country have been the … Continued
Teaching Camels to Fly: Can The Pentagon Win This War? Seth Shulman, The Threat at Home: Confronting the Toxic Legacy of the U.S. Military. Beacon Press: Boston, 1992. 253 plus xv pages. $23.00. November 1987. At the Rayburn House Office … Continued
Most of us will never have the opportunity to visit these two small islands at the southern end of the Northwestern Hawaiian archipelago, but a book just published by Bishop Museum Press allows those interested in the islands’ history, culture, … Continued
Thane Pratt, Carter Atkinson, Paul Banko, James Jacobi, and Bethany Woodworth, eds. Conservation Biology of Hawaiian Forest Birds: Implications for Island Avifauna. Yale University Press, 2009. 728 pages. $85.00 (hardcover) If Hawai`i lost its remaining native forest birds, plenty of birds would … Continued
Alison Rieser. The Case of the Green Turtle: An Uncensored History of a Conservation Icon. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. 338 pages. $45.00 hardbound. The green turtle, Chelonia mydas, is much in the news in Hawai`i these days, what with … Continued