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"America's Natural Places: Rocky Mountains and Great Plains" examines over 50 of the most spectacular and important areas of this region, with each entry describing the importance of the area, the flora and fauna that it supports, threats to the survival of the region, and what is being done to protect it.

Organized by state within the volume, this work informs readers about the wide variety of natural areas across the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains and identifies places that may be near them that demonstrate the importance of preserving such regions.

Danger in the Congo The unexplored Amazon Long perceived as a place of mystery and danger, and more recently as a fragile system requiring our protection, the tropical forest captivated America for over a century. In The Maximum of Wilderness, Kelly Enright traces the representation of tropical forests--what Americans have typically thought of as -jungles---and their place in both our perception of -wildness- and the globalization of the environmental movement.

In the early twentieth century, jungle adventure--as depicted by countless books and films, from...