The Hyporheic Handbook
The Hyporheic Handbook

Author: Great Britain, Environment Agency Staff

Publisher:

Published: 2009-11

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13: 9781849111317

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This handbook brings together the latest research on a range of topics related to the groundwater-surface water interface and hyporheic zones specifically for environmental management practitioners.

Birds as Monitors of Environmental Change
Birds as Monitors of Environmental Change

Author: R.W. Furness

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-04-17

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 9401513228

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Birds as Monitors of Environmental Change looks at how bird populations are affected by pollutants, water quality, and other physical changes and how this scientific knowledge can help in predicting the effects of pollutants and other physical changes in the environment.

Life on the Circuit with Lincoln
Life on the Circuit with Lincoln

Author: Henry Clay Whitney

Publisher:

Published: 1892

Total Pages: 772

ISBN-13:

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"Originally commenced as a pastime, and to please a circle of friends alone, success, in any degree, can only be hoped for, because of my vantage ground as an intimate and close friend of Mr. Lincoln, and because, by reason of such intimacy, of the novelty of some of the facts and deductions, and not, in any sense, by reason, but in spite of, its literary style or, rather, the lack thereof."--Preface.

Damming Grand Canyon
Damming Grand Canyon

Author: Diane E Boyer

Publisher:

Published: 2007-05-07

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13:

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In 1923, America paid close attention, via special radio broadcasts, newspaper headlines, and cover stories in popular magazines, as a government party descended the Colorado to survey Grand Canyon. Fifty years after John Wesley Powell's journey, the canyon still had an aura of mystery and extreme danger. At one point, the party was thought lost in a flood. Something important besides adventure was going on. Led by Claude Birdseye and including colorful characters such as early river-runner Emery Kolb, popular writer Lewis Freeman, and hydraulic engineer Eugene La Rue, the expedition not only made the first accurate survey of the river gorge but sought to decide the canyon's fate. The primary goal was to determine the best places to dam the Grand. With Boulder Dam not yet built, the USGS, especially La Rue, contested with the Bureau of Reclamation over how best to develop the Colorado River. The survey party played a major role in what was known and thought about Grand Canyon. The authors weave a narrative from the party's firsthand accounts and frame it with a thorough history of water politics and development and the Colorado River. The recommended dams were not built, but the survey both provided base data that stood the test of time and helped define Grand Canyon in the popular imagination. Also by Robert Webb: Lee's Ferry