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1 online resource (199 pages) |
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Intro; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Introduction: The Wild Wonder of California; Chapter 1 A Mountain Lion in Hollywoodland: Can People and Wildlife Coexist in the Second-Largest City in the Nation?; Steve Winter: Photographing P-22; Rat Poison: A Threat to P-22 and All Wildlife; How David Crosby Advanced Mountain Lion Research; Meet the Other Cougars of Los Angeles; Making Cougarmagic: Tracking Mountain Lions with Cameras; Meatball, the Glendale Bear; Charismatic Microfauna: The Bugs of LA; Calling in the Marines for the Desert Tortoise |
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Chapter 2 They Left Their Hearts in San Francisco: The Amazing Return of the Harbor PorpoiseBecome a Porpoise Citizen Scientist; Sutro Sam: San Francisco's First River Otter in Fifty Years; Lake Merritt: Connecting People and Wildlife in Oakland; A Community Rallies Around the Martinez Beavers; The Pollinator Posse to the Rescue of Monarch Butterflies; On Urban Raptors: GGRO Director Allen Fish; Saving California Sea Lions at the Marine Mammal Center; The Urban Coyote; Chapter 3 Keeping Bears Wild: How Staff and Visitors in Yosemite National Park Help Wildlife |
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Phil Frank: A Cartoonist Advocates for Yosemite's BearsThe Return of the California Grizzly?; Slow Down for Yosemite's Bears; Bighorn Sheep Get a Helping Hand; How Does a Fisher Cross the Road?; A Plea for the Pika; Great Gray Owls Go Digital; The Love Song of the Yosemite Toad; Chapter 4 Friending Wildlife: The Facebook Foxes and Wildlife Corridors in Silicon Valley's High-Tech World; Bakersfield Shares a City with Endangered Foxes; Peregrine Falcons Nesting at San Jose City Hall; Google Provides a Safe Haven for Egrets; Larry Ellison Founds an Innovative Wildlife Center |
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Farming for Native BeesElephant Seals: The Comeback Kids; Up Close with a California Condor; Chapter 5 The Incredible Journey: California Welcomes Back Wolves after Ninety Years; The California Wolf Center; OR-7: The Movie; Buddy the Wolverine: Another Lonely Wanderer; Bringing Back Salmon with the California Conservation Corps; "Refrogging"California by Building Wetlands; Ranchers Helping Ringtails in the Sutter Buttes; Rice Farmers Sharing Their Fields with Sandhill Cranes; Good Neighbors: What Californians Are Doing for Wildlife in Their Own Backyards; Craig Newmark; Elizabeth Sarmiento |
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The Town of AlpineSusan Gottlieb; California Conservation Corps Campuses; San Francisco Airport Marriott Waterfront; Leo Politi Elementary School; Peter Coyote; Northrop Ranch; Diane Ellis; The City of Chula Vista; Get Involved; Acknowledgments; Photo Credits; About the Author |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Wildlife habitat improvement -- California
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Wildlife habitat improvement.
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California.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
O'Mara, Collin
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| ISBN |
9781597143479 |
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1597143472 |
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