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Two Botkin Classics Arrive in Ebook Format

May 25, 2012 By richf Leave a Comment

Botkin’s guide is the perfect blend of ecology, history, and seasoned reflection on our two-hundred-year relationship with the nation’s longest river.
— Stephen E. Ambrose, author of the New York Times bestseller, Undaunted Courage and other books on Passage of Discovery
Entertaining, thought-provoking, and well worth it. The conservation message is strong and urgent. Enthusiastically recommended.
— Library Journal on Beyond the Stony Mountains (starred review)

Two of Dan Botkin's classic works about explorers' Lewis and Clark are being released in ebook format for the very first time. Passage of Discovery: The American Rivers Guide to the Missouri River of Lewis and Clark (now available) and Beyond the Stony Mountains: Nature in the American West from Lewis and Clark to Today (available June 2012) are available for purchase wherever ebooks are sold.

Passage of Discovery features both an Introduction by the late historian Stephen E. Ambrose, and an Afterward from actor and environmentalist Robert Redford. Beyond The Stony Mountains, meanwhile, is an exquisitely illustrated and expertly written account of the western landscape, as it was seen by Lewis and Clark, recounting one of the great adventures of the American past while powerfully relating it to the American present.Together, the books represent a lifelong passion for the famed explorers by Botkin, and transports readers on a unique journey into the landscape of their great trek, then and now, from the unique vantage point of an environmental scientist.

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Where to buy Passage of Discovery
Where to buy Beyond the Stony Mountains

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From Daniel B. Botkin, Ph.D

Daniel Botkin
I believe we are mostly on the wrong track in the way we try to deal with the environment. Everything I do, study, learn, and advise about the environment is different from the status quo. Throughout my career, I have tried to understand how nature works and use that understanding to figure out how we can solve our most pressing environmental problems.

My process over the past 45 years has been to look carefully at the facts, make simple calculations from them (sometimes simple computer models) and then tell people what I have learned. It’s surprising how rarely people bother to look at the facts. This has surprised me every time I’ve started a new ecology research project or work on an environmental issue.

In the course of my work and studies, I have learned many things and I want to tell you about them. That is the purpose of this website.

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Books by Dan Botkin

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Jabowa III Forest Model


Jabowa Forest Model
Jabowa Forest Model for Windows 7.
This forest model, used around the world, was developed first in 1970 by Daniel B. Botkin, James F. Janak and James R. Wallis

JABOWA remains the most completely detailed and well validated forest growth model available, accounting for 95% or more of the variation in real forests where it has been tested.

The book Forest Dynamics: An Ecological Model (available as an eBook) provides a complete description of the model and the rationales behind its development.

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Sea Ice Study

The Bockstoce and Botkin Historical Sea Ice Data Study has a new home at the University of Alaska website. The data include more than 52,000 daily observations in an unbroken 65 year record from 1849 – 1914.

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