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Historians of wilderness have shown that nature reserves are used ideologically in the construction of American national identity. But the contemporary problem of wilderness demands examination of how profoundly nature-in-reserve influences something more fundamental, namely what counts as being well, having a life, and having a future. What is wellness for the citizens to whom the parks are said to democratically belong? And how does the presence of foreigners threaten this wellness? Recent critiques of the Wilderness Act focus exclusively on its ecological effects, ignoring the extent to which wilderness policy affects our contemporary collective experience and political imagination. Tracing the challenges that migration and indigenousness currently pose to the national park system and the Wilderness Act, Grebowicz foregrounds concerns with social justice against the ecological and aesthetic ones that have created and continue to shape these environments. With photographs by Jacqueline Schlossman.

National parks and reserves --- National reserves --- Parks, National --- Reserves, National --- Parks --- Protected areas --- Public lands --- Forest reserves --- Military reservations --- National protected areas systems --- Natural areas --- Political aspects --- Big Bend National Park (Tex.) --- Death Valley National Park (Calif. and Nev.) --- Death Valley National Monument (Calif. and Nev.) --- Political aspects.

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Described as "a writer in the tradition of Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and other self-educated seers" by the San Francisco Chronicle, David Rains Wallace turns his attention in this new book to another distinctive corner of California-its desert, the driest and hottest environment in North America. Drawing from his frequent forays to Death Valley, Red Rock Canyon, Kelso Dunes, and other locales, Wallace illuminates the desert's intriguing flora and fauna as he explores a controversial, unresolved scientific debate about the origin and evolution of its unusual ecosystems. Eminent scientists and scholars appear throughout these pages, including maverick paleobiologist Daniel Axelrod, botanist Ledyard Stebbins, and naturalists Edmund Jaeger and Joseph Wood Krutch. Weaving together ecology, geology, natural history, and mythology in his characteristically eloquent voice, Wallace reveals that there is more to this starkly beautiful landscape than meets the eye.

Desert biology --- Deserts --- american southwest. --- arid. --- biome. --- biosphere. --- botany. --- cacti. --- california. --- conservation. --- death valley. --- desert animals. --- desert plants. --- desert. --- earth sciences. --- ecology. --- ecosystem. --- environment. --- environmentalism. --- extreme heat. --- geology. --- kelso dunes. --- landscape. --- life sciences. --- natural history. --- naturalist. --- nature. --- nonfiction. --- paleobiology. --- red rock canyon. --- science. --- wasteland. --- zoology.

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The MEET Special Issue aims at showing the gains in geothermal energy that can be achieved using a variety of techniques, depending on the geological setting of the underground. Among the list of exploitation concepts, enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) are particularly interesting, as their application is much less dependent of the underground setting, allowing, in turn, a large geographical deployment and market penetration in Europe. The challenges of EGS are multiple in terms of investment costs, the testing of novel reservoir exploitation approaches with an inherent risk of induced seismicity, and the presence of aggressive geothermal brines, damaging infrastructures. The conversion of oil wells or coproduction of heat or electricity together with oil is also addressed. This Special Issue summarizes the output of the H2020 MEET project based on laboratory experiments, geological field works on high-quality analogues, advanced reservoir modeling, the development of a decision-maker tool for investors and specific demonstration activities, such as chemical stimulation or the innovative monitoring of deep geothermal wells, and the production of electrical power via small-scale binary technology tested in various geological contexts in Europe.

Research & information: general --- Soultz-Sous-Forêts --- geothermal site --- heat exchanger --- scales --- sulfates --- sulfides --- As and Sb-bearing galena --- crystal growth --- crystal shapes --- fracture network --- Death Valley --- Noble Hills --- power law distribution --- multiscale analysis --- geothermal reservoir characterization --- Noble Hills granite --- Owlshead Mountains granite --- metamorphic grade --- fluid/rock interactions --- newly formed minerals --- element variations --- geothermal reservoir --- deep geothermal energy --- EGS --- Variscan fold-and-thrust belt --- district heating and cooling --- economic indicators --- CO2 abatement cost --- sensitivity analysis --- fracturing processes --- fluid circulation --- granite alteration --- low to moderate regional strain --- blind geothermal system --- compositional anomalies --- hierarchical clustering --- self-organizing maps --- unconventional reservoirs --- geothermal --- OVSP --- well seismic data --- fault --- fracture --- geothermal derisking --- FWI --- numerical modelling --- inversion --- imaging --- permeability --- fluid–rock interactions --- slate --- temperature --- time-dependent --- pressure solution --- dissolution --- Soultz-sous-Forêts --- hydro-thermal modeling --- conversion --- clustering --- upscaling --- heat --- electricity --- scenarios --- LCOE --- LCOH --- NPV --- CO2 emissions --- Upper Rhine Graben --- geothermal brine --- scaling --- metal sulfides --- thermodynamic --- kinetics --- oil --- corrosion --- geology --- stress --- fluid pressure --- Mohr diagrams --- fracturing --- greywackes --- slates --- deep geothermal reservoir --- structural model --- thermo-hydraulic simulations --- MEET H2020 project --- fracture network variability --- granite --- spacing distribution --- fracture intensity P10 --- well placement --- CO2-EGS --- water-EGS --- discrete fracture networks --- THM modeling --- enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) --- fractured granite --- core flooding experiments --- autoclave experiments --- Cornubian Batholith --- Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) --- Variscan rocks --- quartzite --- claystone --- graywacke --- gouge --- fracture transmissivity --- effective stress --- United Downs --- hydraulic stimulation --- equivalent permeability field --- exposed analogue --- enhanced geothermal system --- fractures --- n/a --- Soultz-Sous-Forêts --- fluid-rock interactions --- Soultz-sous-Forêts