Nancy H Langston

Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares: The Paradox of Old Growth in the Inland West

Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares: The Paradox of Old Growth in the Inland West

Where Land and Water Meet: A Western Landscape Transformed

Where Land & Water Meet: A Western Landscape Transformed

Ecology

Readings in Ecology

Islands Across the Universe: An Alien Visitation

This is a novel about a spacecraft having an accident on a ranch in southern New Mexico, with six small aliens on board. They are here on earth to secure seed for plants, animals, and fish to accelerate life development on young planets. Their mission is to develop islands across the universe that c...

Ecology

Complex and diverse, modern ecology is often difficult to introduce to undergraduate students in a way that conveys the excitement and enthusiasm that ecologists feel for their field. In this text, the authors aim to encourage students by adopting a new approach to teaching modern ecology, dividing ...

Readings in Ecology

Readings in Ecology is a unique collection of diverse readings from the primary literature in ecology. An ideal companion to the groundbreaking text Ecology (OUP, 1998, Dodson et al.), it can also be used in conjunction with other introductory ecology texts. It follows the same chapter organization ...

Nancy Langston'sToxic Bodies: Hormone Disruptors and the Legacy of DES [Hardcover](2010)

Where Land and Water Meet: A Western Landscape Transformed (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)

Water and land interrelate in surprising and ambiguous ways, and riparian zones, where land and water meet, have effects far outside their boundaries. Using the Malheur Basin in southeastern Oregon as a case study, this intriguing and nuanced book explores the ways people have envisioned boundaries ...

Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares: The Paradox of Old Growth in the Inland West (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)

Across the inland West, forests that once seemed like paradise have turned into an ecological nightmare. Fires, insect epidemics, and disease now threaten millions of acres of once-bountiful forests. Yet no one can agree what went wrong. Was it too much management―or not enough―that forced the fores...

Toxic Bodies: Hormone Disruptors and the Legacy of DES

In 1941 the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of diethylstilbestrol (DES), the first synthetic chemical to be marketed as an estrogen and one of the first to be identified as a hormone disruptor—a chemical that mimics hormones. Although researchers knew that DES caused cancer and disrupt...

By Nancy Langston Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares: The Paradox of Old Growth in the Inland West (Weyerhaeuser Environ (First Edition)