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America's Wetland - by Roy T Sawyer (Hardcover)

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  • The geologically ancient Tidewater region of southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina rests precariously atop millions of years of erosion from the nearby Appalachian Mountains.
  • About the Author: Roy T. Sawyer is retired Managing Director of BIOPHARM (UK) Ltd., a leech research institute in Wales.
  • 272 Pages
  • Nature, Ecosystems & Habitats

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About the Book



In so doing, he explores the effects of hurricanes, droughts, forest fires, and ice ages of the past--and anticipates, in this age of global warming, natural events that may be still to come.



Book Synopsis



The geologically ancient Tidewater region of southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina rests precariously atop millions of years of erosion from the nearby Appalachian Mountains. An immense wetland at near sea level, it is host to every conceivable body of fresh water, ranging from brooding swamps and large hidden lakes to sluggish blackwater rivers and brackish sounds (one of which was so large an early explorer thought he had found the Pacific Ocean). In this engaging book, biologist and Tidewater native Roy T. Sawyer delivers an ecohistory of this unique waterland whose wind-driven tides cover a rich human and natural past.

Jutting prominently into the Atlantic, this wetland is the final stop for the warmth of the Gulf Stream before it is deflected from the American mainland. At the top of a narrow, warm coastal strip, it provides an ideal home for a vast array of animal and plant life, including prodigious numbers of reptiles (such as the world's northernmost population of alligators) and overwintering waterfowl. It is also home to the oldest known living trees east of the Rocky Mountains. The climate and geography made the area a natural choice for very early human habitation--as far back as the last ice age, when the region was a rich oasis just south of a veritable tundra.

In examining the impact of humans upon this environment, and vice-versa, Sawyer reveals how our alarming shortsightedness has produced a fragile and endangered present. Although human manipulation started here as early as ten thousand years ago (coinciding with extinction of mammoths and other megafauna), the environment has been altered most radically over only the last one hundred years, particularly in regard to land drainage, deforestation, overfishing, and pollution.

The author provides an authoritative overview of the human impact on these wetlands and suggests ways in which we might still salvage them. In so doing, he explores the effects of hurricanes, droughts, forest fires, and ice ages of the past--and anticipates, in this age of global warming, natural events that may be still to come.



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The environmental and cultural fortunes of the tidewater regions of southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina are inextricably linked by the adjacencies of each state's importantwetlands...there's an intriguing back-story attached to almost every square mile of the tidewater involving alligators, hurricanes, civil war blockades, underground railroads, peat fires, earthquakes, dams, dugouts, shipwrecked hogs, and importantly, the environmental imprinthumans have left over thousands of years...If you've fished for crappie in LakeDrummond, explored the natural riches of Back Bay and the Great Dismal Swamp, hunted waterfowl, or dangled a chicken neck off a backyard pier to net a blue crab, you'll find your next adventure enriched by Sawyer's wide-ranging regional his-tory of one of our nation's most precious ecosystems.

--Beth Hester "Virginia Wildlife Magazine"



About the Author



Roy T. Sawyer is retired Managing Director of BIOPHARM (UK) Ltd., a leech research institute in Wales. He is also founder and curator of the Medical Leech Museum, a private facility in Charleston, South Carolina, and the author of Leech Biology and Behaviour.

Dimensions (Overall): 9.26 Inches (H) x 6.4 Inches (W) x .91 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.19 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 272
Genre: Nature
Sub-Genre: Ecosystems & Habitats
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Theme: Oceans & Seas
Format: Hardcover
Author: Roy T Sawyer
Language: English
Street Date: May 5, 2010
TCIN: 88980652
UPC: 9780813929217
Item Number (DPCI): 247-57-4767
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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Estimated ship dimensions: 0.91 inches length x 6.4 inches width x 9.26 inches height
Estimated ship weight: 1.19 pounds
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