The Inviolable Hills: The Ecology, Conservation and Regeneration of the British UplandsStuart & Watkins in conjunction with The Soil Association, 1968 - 244 pages |
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... problems , and experience has so far justified me in that I have often seen individuals who simply outgrew a problem which had de- stroyed others . This ' outgrowing ' revealed itself on further experience to be the raising of the level ...
... problems , and experience has so far justified me in that I have often seen individuals who simply outgrew a problem which had de- stroyed others . This ' outgrowing ' revealed itself on further experience to be the raising of the level ...
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... problems and potentialities involved , mostly in the context of human history . The story of the colonisation of the British uplands from the Old Stone Age to the early Middle Ages is briefly related . Then , as a standard of re ...
... problems and potentialities involved , mostly in the context of human history . The story of the colonisation of the British uplands from the Old Stone Age to the early Middle Ages is briefly related . Then , as a standard of re ...
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... PROBLEMS OF CONTROL An ecological climax is a resolution of the perpetual problem of reconciling the tensions between unity and diver- sity , whereby the individual finds self - fulfilment in group living . Hence its stability — the ...
... PROBLEMS OF CONTROL An ecological climax is a resolution of the perpetual problem of reconciling the tensions between unity and diver- sity , whereby the individual finds self - fulfilment in group living . Hence its stability — the ...
Contents
Our Greatest UnderDeveloped Resource I | 1 |
PART | 13 |
A COUNTRY THAT WAS OURS | 30 |
Copyright | |
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acid acres agricultural Aldo Leopold animals balance beauty biological birds bogs Britain Britain's upland British uplands Brynach building Capability Brown causes Celtic century compost conifers conservation countryside crops D. H. Lawrence deer disease earth ecological effect elements erosion example extracts factors factory farming farm farmers fertilisers fertility flooding flowers forest forestry fruit garden grass grazing green manuring ground-water system growing H. J. Massingham herd Highlands hillside human humus industrial insects Keyline Lady Eve Balfour land landscape leached livestock living Living Soil manure Massingham Max Nicholson minerals moor moorland natural Nature's nutritional organic pastures peat pests pioneer plant ploughing problems realised reclamation regeneration reservoirs river rock Rolf Gardiner roots scheme Scottish sheep Sir Albert Howard slopes soil species Sylvia Crowe techniques tion trees upland areas urban valley vegetation Welsh whole wholefoods wild wild-life wind