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Transient Landscapes
Landscape the unique combination of landforms, plants, animals, and weather that compose any natural place is inherently transient. Each essay in Transient Landscapes introduces …
Mountain Rivers Revisited
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Water Resources Monograph Series, Volume 19. What are the forms and processes characteristic of mountain rivers and how …
Saving the Dammed
The ability of beavers to create an abundant habitat for a diverse array of plants and animals has been analyzed time and again. The disappearance of beavers across the northern …
Island of Grass
Island of Grass tells the story of the Cathy Fromme Prairie Natural Area, a 240-acre preserve surrounded by housing developments in Fort Collins, Colorado. This small grassland is …
Disconnected Rivers
This important and accessible book surveys the history and present condition of river systems across the United States, showing how human activities have impoverished our rivers …
Sustaining River Ecosystems and Water Resources
This work is designed to broaden the scope with which many people regard a river. Rivers are commonly regarded from a very simplistic perspective as conduits for downstream flows …
Snap out of It
In Snap Out of It: An Unexpected Caregivers Way to Self-Care, Stability, and Survival, author Ellen Teitelman Wohl shares her honest, emotional?-?sometimes funny?-?memoir of the …
World of Rivers
Far from being the serene, natural streams of yore, modern rivers have been diverted, dammed, dumped in, and dried up, all in efforts to harness their power for human needs. But …
Wide Rivers Crossed
In Wide Rivers Crossed, Ellen Wohl tells the stories of two rivers-the South Platte on the western plains and the Illinois on the eastern-to represent the environmental history …
Rivers in the Landscape
Rivers are the great shapers of terrestrial landscapes. Very few points on Earth above sea level do not lie within a drainage basin. Even points distant from the nearest channel …
Rhythms of Change in Rocky Mountain National Park
To contemplate an alpine lake or a ribbon of white water twisting down the face of the Rocky Mountains is to appreciate the majesty of this block of bedrock thrust up from Earths …
ZWEITAUSENDVIERUNDACHTZIG
Alles wird gut. – Warum man Kindern heute noch diesen Bären aufbindet, ist schwer zu erklären. Am wahrscheinlichsten ist, dass es sich um eine simple Kompensation handelt – der …