"Birnam Wood is on the move . . . A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass on New Zealand's South Island, cutting o the town of Thorndike and leaving a sizable farm abandoned. The disaster presents an opportunity for Birnam Wood, an undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops wherever no one will notice. For years, the group has struggled to break even. To occupy the farm at...

"Look out below! Landslides and mudslides are some of the most dangerous forces in nature. In seconds, these roaring rivers of earth and rocks can uproot trees, flip cars, and destroy whole neighborhoods. Readers of this action-packed book will learn many earth-shattering facts, such as that a mudslide can move at speeds up to 50 miles (80 km) per hour! Diagrams explain how and why these natural disasters happen. Amazing archival photos and sidebars...

Nine-county study of landslide activity in relation to ancient landslide deposits, slope, bedrock geology, and rainfall pattern as keys to slope stability in land-use planning.