| Main Title |
Restoring Colorado River ecosystems : a troubled sense of immensity / |
| Author |
Adler, Robert W.
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| Publisher |
Island Press, |
| Year Published |
2007 |
| OCLC Number |
77011583 |
| ISBN |
1597260568 (cloth : alk. paper) 9781597260565 (cloth : alk. paper) 1597260576 (pbk. : alk. paper) 97 |
| Subjects |
Restoration ecology--Colorado River (Colo-Mexico)
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Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
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| EOAM |
QH104.5.C6A35 2007 |
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Region 8 Technical Library/Denver,CO |
09/05/2008 |
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| Collation |
xxiii, 311 p. : maps ; 23 cm. |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-303) and index. |
| Contents Notes |
Introduction : Retaking old ground -- The living artery : disruptions to the river's linear connections -- Only the hills will know : changes in the watershed -- Tree of the people : tree of life -- Down the great unknown : environmental restoration in the face of scientific uncertainty -- Casting of the lots : conflicting methods and goals in environmental restoration -- Ownership of unownable things : property sights and environmental restoration at the water's edge -- An elusive and indefinable boundary : restoration and political borders -- The lovely and the usable : toward a more holistic approach to restoration -- Coda : Into new dimensions. |
