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Conservancy: The Land Trust Movement in America
Author(s): Richard Brewer (Author)
- Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
- Publication Date: 1 Oct. 2003
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 320 pages
- ISBN-10: 1584653507
- ISBN-13: 9781584653509
Book Description
Land trusts, or conservancies, protect land by owning it. This model of saving land by private action has become dominant only since the 1980s and this book offers a complete treatment of the US land trust movement as a crucial feature of current efforts to protect the environment.
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About the Author
RICHARD BREWER is Professor Emeritus, Department of Biological Sciences, Western Michigan University. He has served as the President of the Southwest Michigan Land Conservancy and the Kalamazoo Nature Center, and he has chaired the Michigan Technical Committee for the Endangered Species Program (Birds). His books include The Science of Ecology (1994) and The Atlas of Breeding Birds of Michigan (1991).
