![]() Harvil Solid Wood Dark Cherry Dartboard Cabinet Set $160.94 I received the item. It came as damaged during the shipping. So I returned it to Amazon.com, and I ordered another item. Once again, It came as damaged again. I don't believe that I just had a bad luck!! Do not buy this item!!! ![]() Comfort Seats C1B1E-18BN Designer Solid Wood Toilet Seat with PVD Brushed Nickel Hinges, Elongated, Dark Brown $45.99 Timely delivery. More beautiful than pictured. Color is darker and richer and goes so well in our new master bathroom. ![]() Reckitt Benckiser #6233875144 8OZ Dark Wood Old English $8.49 Old English Dark Wood Scratch Cover really works. Our baseboards were scuffed up and I was advised by a friend to try this scratch cover. It REALLY works. It lends an oil to old wood, so it both nourishes the wood and covers the scrapes and scratches. I would certainly recommend this product. ![]() In a Dark Wood: The Fight over Forests and the New Tyranny of Ecology $29.95 Other reviewers have noted Alston Chase's biases, though it took my wife the zoologist to point out just how dishonestly he supports them. He claims that nature is subject to drastic change without human intervention and that simple ecosystems are no more unstable than complex ones. He gives as examples (on page 108):- The elephants in Tsavo National Park, whose population exploded when it was established, so much so that the elephants ate almost all the vegetation. He doesn't mention that vast habitat destruction took place outside the park, as well as uncontrolled poaching.- Moose and wolf populations on Isle Royale, which do indeed very wildly. But that's as simple an ecosystem as you can get short of ferns in the sunlight: one predator, one prey.- Peruvian anchovies and Maine menhaden, whose populations crashed in the 1970s and 1960s. He doesn't mention that they were being fished unrestrainedly.So all his examples show either the effects of human intervention or of a simple ecosystem, proving just the opposite of his claims.Additionally, he claims that only six bird species have gone extinct in North America and Europe since 1600. My wife can name five that have gone extinct in North America just since 1914. And that's not even counting the passenger pigeon, which was once the most populous bird in the world, now extinct thanks solely to human activity.After that, it's impossible to believe anything Alston Chase says, which means there's not much point in reading this book. |
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