Water, Watersheds, and Land Use in New Mexico
Author: Peggy Sue Johnson
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 164
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The Rio Grande Project
Author: Robert Autobee
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 50
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKHeritage and Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Author: Manuel May Castillo
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789087282998
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 2007, the United Nations adopted the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, a landmark political recognition of indigenous rights. A decade later, this book looks at the status of those rights internationally. Written jointly by indigenous and non-indigenous scholars, the chapters feature case studies from four continents that explore the issues faced by Indigenous Peoples through three themes: land, spirituality, and self-determination.
The Leatherback Turtle
Author: James R. Spotila
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2015-10-30
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 142141709X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe most comprehensive book ever written on leatherback sea turtles. Weighing as much as 2,000 pounds and reaching lengths of over seven feet, leatherback turtles are the world’s largest reptile. These unusual sea turtles have a thick, pliable shell that helps them to withstand great depths—they can swim more than one thousand meters below the surface in search of food. And what food source sustains these goliaths? Their diet consists almost exclusively of jellyfish, a meal they crisscross the oceans to find. Leatherbacks have been declining in recent decades, and some predict they will be gone by the end of this century. Why? Because of two primary factors: human redevelopment of nesting beaches and commercial fishing. There are only twenty-nine index beaches in the world where these turtles nest, and there is immense pressure to develop most of them into homes or resorts. At the same time, longline and gill net fisheries continue to overwhelm waters frequented by leatherbacks. In The Leatherback Turtle, James R. Spotila and Pilar Santidrián Tomillo bring together the world’s leading experts to produce a volume that reveals the biology of the leatherback while putting a spotlight on the conservation problems and solutions related to the species. The book leaves us with options: embark on the conservation strategy laid out within its pages and save one of nature’s most splendid creations, or watch yet another magnificent species disappear.
The Place Names of New Mexico
Author: Robert Julyan
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780826316899
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe indispensable traveler's guide to the history of places throughout the Land of Enchantment.
Groundwater Recharge in a Desert Environment
Author: James F. Hogan
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
Published: 2004-01-09
Total Pages: 310
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublished by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Water Science and Application Series, Volume 9. Groundwater recharge, the flux of water across the water table, is arguably the most difficult component of the hydrologic cycle to measure. In arid and semiarid regions the problem is exacerbated by extremely small recharge fluxes that are highly variable in space and time. --from the Preface Groundwater Recharge in a Desert Environment: The Southwestern United States speaks to these issues by presenting new interpretations and research after more than two decades of discipline-wide study. Discussions ondeveloping environmental tracers to fingerprint sources and amounts of groundwater at the basin scalethe critical role of vegetation in hydroecological processesnew geophysical methods in quantifying channel rechargeapplying Geographical Information System (GIS) models to land surface processescoupling process-based vadose zone to groundwater modeling, and more make this book a significant resource for hydmlogists, biogeoscientists, and geochemists concerned with water and water-related issues in arid and semiarid regions.
Federal Land Transaction Facilitation Act
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Publisher: Nova Science Pub Incorporated
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 93
ISBN-13: 9781606920565
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Fish and Wildlife Service, and National Park Service, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service manage about 628 million acres of public land, mostly in the 11 western states and Alaska. Under the Federal Land Transaction Facilitation Act (FLTFA), revenue raised from selling BLM lands is available to the agencies, primarily to acquire non-federal land within the boundaries of land they already own -- known as in-holdings, which can create significant land management problems. To acquire land, the agencies can nominate parcels under state-level interagency agreements or the Secretaries can use their discretion to initiate acquisitions. FLTFA expires in 2010. The author was asked to determine (1)FLTFA revenue generated, (2)challenges to future sales, (3)FLTFA expenditures, and (4)challenges to future acquisitions. This is an edited and indexed edition.
Water Resources of the Lower Pecos Region, New Mexico
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Publisher: New Mexico Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 162
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpanish Expeditions into Texas, 1689-1768
Author: William C. Foster
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9780292724891
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMapping old trails has a romantic allure at least as great as the difficulty involved in doing it. In this book, William Foster produces the first highly accurate maps of the eleven Spanish expeditions from northeastern Mexico into what is now East Texas during the years 1689 to 1768. Foster draws upon the detailed diaries that each expedition kept of its route, cross-checking the journals among themselves and against previously unused eighteenth-century Spanish maps, modern detailed topographic maps, aerial photographs, and on-site inspections. From these sources emerges a clear picture of where the Spanish explorers actually passed through Texas. This information, which corrects many previous misinterpretations, will be widely valuable. Old names of rivers and landforms will be of interest to geographers. Anthropologists and archaeologists will find new information on encounters with some 139 named Indian tribes. Botanists and zoologists will see changes in the distribution of flora and fauna with increasing European habitation, and climatologists will learn more about the "Little Ice Age" along the Rio Grande.
