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The Catskill Forest: A History
Michael Kudish
218 pages, illustrated, 8.5 x 11, index, 2000
45.00 laminated hardcover--A Purple Mountain Press original
The results of a 30-year study of the Catskill forest. The natural history of the forest from the last glaciation to the present. It is accompanied by a stunning, full-color map, 26" x 34", showing old growth, first and second growth, agricultural lands, burned areas, landslides, etc. The reverse in two colors shows forest-products industries and railroads, past and present.
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Changing Tides: Tivoli Bays,
A Hudson River Wetland
Text and photographs by Esther Kiviat, foreword by John Winthrop Aldrich
160 pages plus 32 color plates, 120 black-and-white
photographs, 3 maps, users' guide, 8.5 x 10, 1999
25.00 Now 15.00 quality paperback--A Purple Mountain Press book
"Esther Kiviat has captured the enormous vitality of the Bays, and the daily and seasonal dramas played out in their pools, tidecreeks, and marshy expanses. Her keen eye and unfettered fascination have produced a beautifully written and illustrated portrait." --Betsy Blair, Manager, Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve
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Wildlife and Wilderness:
A History of Adirondack Mammals
Philip G. Terrie
175 pages, illustrated, 6 x 9, 1993
14.50 now 9.50 cloth--A Purple Mountain Press original
A history of the interaction of man and wild animals in the mountains,
explores the ecological, political and esthetic issues involved
in reintroducing the large mammals in their former ranges.
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WEATHER
Catskill Weather
Jerome S. Thaler
167 pages, 8.5 x 11, 1996
22.50 now 9.50 paperback--A Purple Mountain Press original
The hottest, coldest, wettest, driest, snowiest, earlist, latest, are all
covered in detail along with weather averages, weather extremes, weather trends
and weather cycles.
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Geology
THE CATSKILLS: A GEOLOGICAL GUIDE
Robert Titus
127 pages, illustrated, 7 x 10, 2004, Third Edition
15.00 paperback--A Purple Mountain Press original
The story of glaciers, continental collisions, lost mountain ranges,
fossil creatures and more.
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THE CATSKILLS IN THE ICE AGE
Robert Titus
123 pages, illustrated, 7 x 10, 2003, Revised Edition
15.00 paperback--A Purple Mountain Press original
How glaciers formed our remarkable present-day landscape.
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THE OTHER SIDE OF TIME
Robert Titus
152 pages, illustrated, 7 x 10, 2007, Revised Edition
15.00 paperback--A Purple Mountain Press original
The best of Titus's "Catskill Geologist" essays from regional periodicals.
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