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Author : New Library Press.Net
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ISBN 13 : 9780795000935
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Natural History of the Colorado Plateau and Great Basin written by New Library Press.Net and published by . This book was released on 2001-06 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kimball T. Harper
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ISBN 13 : 9780870815119
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (151 download)
Download or read book A Natural History of the Colorado Plateau and Great Basin written by Kimball T. Harper and published by . This book was released on 1998-11-15 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remote Colorado Plateau and Great Basin portions of the Intermountain West are areas of spectacular natural beauty and diversity. Due to inaccessibility, however, scientific study of many aspects of the region's natural history has lagged. Natural History of the Colorado Plateau and Great Basin provides an up-to-date summary of the region's geology, climates, and biology, including thorough treatments of the area's insects, fish, and reptiles. Also discussed are the ecology and distribution of prehistoric human cultures in the region; how modern humans have used (and abused) resources in the Intermountain West; and the impact of post-Pleistocene environmental changes on genetics of disjunct populations of conifer trees. Written by a diverse group of acknowledged experts, Natural History of the Colorado Plateau and Great Basin offers invaluable background information for all students and resource managers who want to work in or visit the Intermountain West.
Author : Kimball T. Harper
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Natural History of the Colorado Plateau and Great Basin written by Kimball T. Harper and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen diverse contributed papers provide an up-to-date summary of this remote region's geology, climates, and biology, including thorough treatments of the area's insects, fish, and reptiles. Other topics include the ecology and distribution of prehistoric human cultures in the region; how modern humans have used and abused resources in the Intermountain West; and genetic diversity among populations of conifers. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Author : Donald L. Baars
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826323019
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Colorado Plateau written by Donald L. Baars and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written with the general reader in mind, this is the updated edition of the classic on the geology of the red rock and canyon country of the Fours Corners region of Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico.
Author : Steven R Simms
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315434962
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)
Download or read book Ancient Peoples of the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau written by Steven R Simms and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written to appeal to professional archaeologists, students, and the interested public alike, this book is a long overdue introduction to the ancient peoples of the Great Basin and northern Colorado Plateau. Through detailed syntheses, the reader is drawn into the story of the habitation of the Great Basin from the entry of the first Native Americans through the arrival of Europeans. Ancient Peoples is a major contribution to Great Basin archaeology and anthropology, as well as the general study of foraging societies.
Author : Donald Grayson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520267478
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The Great Basin written by Donald Grayson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-04-18 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Great Basin, centering on Nevada and including substantial parts of California, Oregon, and Utah, gets its name from the fact that none of its rivers or streams flow to the sea. This book synthesizes the past 25,000 years of the natural history of this vast region. It explores the extinct animals that lived in the Great Basin during the Ice Age and recounts the rise and fall of the massive Ice Age lakes that existed here. It explains why trees once grew 13' beneath what is now the surface of Lake Tahoe, explores the nearly two dozen Great Basin mountain ranges that once held substantial glaciers, and tells the remarkable story of how pinyon pine came to cover some 17,000,000 acres of the Great Basin in the relatively recent past. These discussions culminate with the impressive history of the prehistoric people of the Great Basin, a history that shows how human societies dealt with nearly 13,000 years of climate change on this often-challenging landscape"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Steven R. Simms
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ancient Peoples of the Great Basin and the Colorado Plateau written by Steven R. Simms and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Prologue -- 1 The Ancient World of the Basin-Plateau -- Native Culture before the Horse -- Technology -- Mobility and Settlement -- Subsistence -- Sidebar: Forager Cuisine -- Social and Political Organization -- Ideology -- From Historic Baseline to the Deep Past: A Spiral of Contexts -- 2 Ancient Climate and Habitats -- The Great Basin and the Colorado Plateau -- The Wasatch Front -- Just before History -- Stepping into a Deeper Past
Author : Charles Van Riper
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816524082
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (24 download)
Download or read book The Colorado Plateau written by Charles Van Riper and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stretching from the four corners of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah, the Colorado Plateau is a natural laboratory for a wide range of studies. This volume presents 23 original articles drawn from more than 100 research projects presented at the Sixth Biennial Conference of Research on the Colorado Plateau. This scientific gathering revolved around research, inventory, and monitoring of lands in the region. The book's contents cover management techniques for cultural, biological, and physical resources, representing collaborative efforts among federal, university, and private sector scientists and land managers. Chapters on cultural concerns cover benchmarks of modern southwestern anthropological knowledge, models of past human activity and impact of modern visitation at newly established national monuments, challenges in implementing the 1964 Wilderness Act, and opportunities for increased federal research on Native American lands. The section on biological resources comprises sixteen chapters, with coverage that ranges from mammalian biogeography to responses of elk at the urban-wildland interface. Additional biological studies include the effects of fire and grazing on vegetation; research on bald eagles at Grand Canyon and tracking wild turkeys using radio collars; and management of palentological resources. Two final chapters on physical resources consider a proposed rerouting of the Rio de Flag River in urban Flagstaff, Arizona, and an examination of past climate patterns over the Plateau, using stream flow records and tree ring data. In light of similarities in habitat and climate across the Colorado Plateau, techniques useful to particular management units have been found to be applicable in many locations. This volume highlights an abundance of research that will prove useful for all of those working in the region, as well as for others seeking comparative studies that integrate research into land management actions.
Author : Ronald C. Blakey
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau written by Ronald C. Blakey and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine seeing the varied landscapes of the earth as they used to look throughout hundreds of millions of years of earth history. Tropical seas lap on the shores of an Arizona beach. Immense sand dunes shift and swirl in Sahara-like deserts in Utah and New Mexico. Ancient rivers spill from a mountain range in Colorado that was a precursor to the modern Rockies. Such flights of geologic fancy are now tangible through the thought-provoking and beautiful paleogeographic maps, reminiscent of the maps in world atlases we all paged through as children, of Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau.Ron Blakey of Northern Arizona University is one of the world's foremost authorities on the geologic history of the Colorado Plateau. For more than fifteen years, he has meticulously created maps that show how numerous past landscapes gave rise to the region's stunning geologic formations. Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau is the first book to showcase Blakey's remarkable work. His maps are accompanied by text by Wayne Ranney, geologist and award-winning author of Carving Grand Canyon. Ranney takes readers on a fascinating tour of the many landscapes depicted in the maps, and Blakey and Ranney's fruitful collaboration brings the past alive like never before.Features: More than 70 state-of-the-art paleogeographic maps of the region and of the world, developed over many years of geologic research Detailed yet accessible text that covers the geology of the plateau in a way nongeologists can appreciate More than 100 full-color photographs, diagrams, and illustrations A detailed guide of where to go to see the spectacular rocks of the region
Author : Laura Foster Huenneke
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816531595
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book The Colorado Plateau VI written by Laura Foster Huenneke and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With a plethora of updates and insights into land conservation and management questions on the Colorado Plateau, The Colorado Plateau VI shows how new technologies for monitoring, spatial analysis, restoration, and collaboration improve our understanding, management, and conservation of outcomes at the appropriate landscape scale for the Colorado Plateau"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Charles Van Riper
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816527380
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (273 download)
Download or read book Colorado Plateau 3 written by Charles Van Riper and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roughly centered on the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States, the Colorado Plateau covers an area of 130,000 square miles. The relatively high semi-arid province boasts nine national parks, sixteen national monuments, many state parks, and dozens of wilderness areas. With the highest concentration of parklands in North America and unique geological and ecological features, the area is of particular interest to researchers. Derived from the Eighth Biennial Conference of Research on the Colorado Plateau, this third volume in a series of research on the Colorado Plateau expands upon the previous two books. This volume focuses on the integration of science into resource management issues, summarizes what criteria make a successful collaborative effort, outlines land management concerns about drought, provides summaries of current biological, sociological, and archaeological research, and highlights current environmental issues in the Four Corner States of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah. With broad coverage that touches on topics as diverse as historical aspects of pronghorn antelope movement patterns through calculating watershed prescriptions to the role of wind-blown sand in preserving archaeological sites on the Colorado River, this volume stands as a compendium of cuttingedge management-oriented research on the Colorado Plateau. The book also introduces, for the first time, tools that can be used to assist with collaboration efforts among landowners and managers who wish to work together toward preserving resources on the Colorado Plateau and offers a wealth of insights into land management questions for many readers, especially people interested in the natural history, biology, anthropology, wildlife, and cultural management issues of the region.
Author : Charles Van Riper
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816525263
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (252 download)
Download or read book The Colorado Plateau II written by Charles Van Riper and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publication of The Colorado Plateau: Cultural, Biological, and Physical Research in 2004 marked a timely summation of current research in the Four Corners states. This new volume, derived from the seventh Biennial Conference on the Colorado Plateau in 2003, complements the previous book by focusing on the integration of science into resource management issues. The 32 chapters range in content from measuring human impacts on cultural resources, through grazing and the wildland-urban interface issues, to parameters of climate change on the Plateau. The book also introduces economic perspectives by considering shifting patterns and regional disparities in the Colorado Plateau economy. A series of chapters on mountain lions explores the human-wildland interface. These chapters deal with the entire spectrum of challenges associated with managing this large mammal species in Arizona and on the Colorado Plateau, conveying a wealth of timely information of interest to wildlife managers and enthusiasts. Another provocative set of chapters on biophysical resources explores the management of forest restoration, from the micro scale all the way up to large-scale GIS analyses of ponderosa pine ecosystems on the Colorado Plateau. Given recent concerns for forest health in the wake of fires, severe drought, and bark-beetle infestation, these chapters will prove enlightening for forest service, park service, and land management professionals at both the federal and state level, as well as general readers interested in how forest management practices will ultimately affect their recreation activities. With broad coverage that touches on topics as diverse as movement patterns of rattlesnakes, calculating watersheds, and rescuing looted rockshelters, this volume stands as a compendium of cutting-edge research on the Colorado Plateau that offers a wealth of insights for many scholars.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 994 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Status and Trends of the Nation's Biological Resources written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael G. Barbour
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521559867
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (598 download)
Download or read book North American Terrestrial Vegetation written by Michael G. Barbour and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition provides extensively expanded coverage of North American vegetation from arctic tundra to tropical forests.
Author : David D. Gillette
Publisher : Utah Geological Survey
ISBN 13 : 1557916349
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (579 download)
Download or read book Vertebrate Paleontology in Utah written by David D. Gillette and published by Utah Geological Survey. This book was released on 1999 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 52 papers in this vary in content from summaries or state-of-knowledge treatments, to detailed contributions that describe new species. Although the distinction is subtle, the title (Vertebrate Paleontology in Utah) indicates the science of paleontology in the state of Utah, rather than the even more ambitious intent if it were given the title “Vertebrate Paleontology of Utah” which would promise an encyclopedic treatment of the subject. The science of vertebrate paleontology in Utah is robust and intense. It has grown prodigiously in the past decade, and promises to continue to grow indefinitely. This research benefits everyone in the state, through Utah’s muse ums and educational institutions, which are the direct beneficiaries.
Author : David M. Richardson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521789103
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Ecology and Biogeography of Pinus written by David M. Richardson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-07-31 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive review essential for all involved in the management of natural and planted pine forests.
Author : Catherine S. Fowler
Publisher : School for Advanced Research P
ISBN 13 : 9781930618961
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (189 download)
Download or read book The Great Basin written by Catherine S. Fowler and published by School for Advanced Research P. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about a place, the Great Basin of western North America, and about the lifeways of Native American people who lived there during the past 13,000 years. The authors highlight the ingenious solutions people devised to sustain themselves in a difficult environment. The Great Basin is a semiarid and often harsh land, but one with life-giving oases. As the weather fluctuated from year to year, and the climate from decade to decade or even from one millennium to the next, the availability of water, plants, and animals also fluctuated. Only people who learned the land intimately and could read the many signs of its changing moods were successful. The evidence of their success is often subtle and difficult to interpret from the few and fragile remains left behind for archaeologists to discover. These ancient fragments of food and baskets, hats and hunting decoys, traps and rock art and the lifeways they reflect are the subject of this well-illustrated book.
