1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910716443103321

Titolo

Maintenance and care of buildings, District of Columbia. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting supplemental estimate of appropriation for the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital, amounting to $ 20,000. March 2 (calendar day, March 3), 1927. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : [U.S. Government Printing Office], , 1927

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (3 pages)

Collana

Senate document / 69th Congress, 2nd session. Senate ; ; no. 238

[United States congressional serial set] ; ; [serial no. 8713]

Altri autori (Persone)

CoolidgeCalvin <1872-1933.>

Soggetti

Rent

Budget - Law and legislation

Maintenance

Repairing

Offices

Legislative materials.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Batch processed record: Metadata reviewed, not verified. Some fields updated by batch processes.

FDLP item number not assigned.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910815495503321

Autore

Cerulean Susan

Titolo

Coming to pass : Florida's coastal islands in a gulf of change / / Susan Cerulean ; photographs by David Moynahan ; designed by Erin Kirk New

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, Georgia : , : The University of Georgia Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-8203-5470-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (303 p.)

Classificazione

NAT011000

Disciplina

577.5/20975991

Soggetti

Islands - Florida - Apalachicola Bay

Island ecology - Florida - Apalachicola Bay

Coastal ecology - Florida - Apalachicola Bay

Apalachicola Bay (Fla.) Environmental conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Introduction: The Passing of a Palm Cathedral; PART 1 Origin Stories; 1 Sand Supply; 2 Front Beach; 3 Relict Ridges; 4 Middens and Lagoons; 5 The Passes; 6 Upland: Where the Beach Used to Be; PART 2 Territory; 7 The First People; 8 Beach Badges; 9 Claiming a Space on the Sand: Willets; 10 What the Eagle Calls Home; 11 The Rights of Birds; PART 3 Diminishing Islands; Direct Take; 12 The Ways We Fish; 13 Oystercatchers; 14 Robbing the River; Habitat Loss; 15 Evolution's Larger Concerns: Beach Mice; 16 Counting Christmas Birds; Pollution; 17 Stealing the Dark from Sea Turtles

18 Standing Watch for OilClimate Change and Sea Level Rise; 19 "The Shore, Being of Shifting Sand"; 20 Sand Envy; 21 The Edge; PART 4 We Are Not Separate; 22 Candlemas: Reclaiming the Rhythm of Time; 23 Red Wolves; 24 We Are Not Separate; Saint Island Prayer; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

Coming to Pass tells the story of a little-developed necklace of northern Gulf Coast islands. Both a field guide to a beloved and impermanent Florida landscape and a call for its protection, Susan Cerulean's memoir chronicles the uniquely beautiful coast as it once was, as it is now, and as it may be as the sea level rises. For decades,



Cerulean has kayaked, hiked, and counted birds on and around Dog, the St. Georges, and St. Vincent Islands with family and friends. She has collected scallops, snorkeled over a fallen lighthouse a mile offshore, and cast nets and fishing lines into cyclical run