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Book Synopsis The Story of Big Creek by : David H. Redinger
Download or read book The Story of Big Creek written by David H. Redinger and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-05 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nature never intended Southern California to be anything but desert, so they said. But settlers turned it into farms, factories and living areas for millions of people. The key to that development was 300 miles north, in the High Sierra, where the company that became the Southern California Edison Company undertook the creation of one of the great water power developments in the world. They called it Big Creek. Completed in 1929, this work of engineering art involved six dams, eight tunnels (one 13 miles long), three major artificial lakes and five powerhouses—all created to ensure electric power for a rapidly growing Los Angeles and suburbs. Author David H. Redinger was Resident Engineer for the Big Creek Hydroelectric Project, one of the most extensive in the world. In this fascinating book, he recounts the obstacles encountered in building a railroad in the High Sierra, from carving roads and tunnels through rough terrain, to enduring snowstorms at high altitudes, and generally accomplishing near-miracles with brainpower, mulepower, steampower, and manpower.
Book Synopsis Saving Tarboo Creek by : Scott Freeman
Download or read book Saving Tarboo Creek written by Scott Freeman and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2018-01-24 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Freeman family decided to transform a drainage ditch into a stream that could again nurture salmon, they knew the task would be formidable but the rewards plentiful. Saving Tarboo Creek artfully blends the story of the family's efforts with profound lessons about how we can live more constructive, fulfilling, and natural lives by engaging with the land rather than exploiting it. Based on the land ethic passionately promoted by Susan Leopold Freeman's grandfather, Aldo Leopold, in his influential book A Sand County Almanac, this timely tribute to our natural environment and the urgent need to protect it is destined to be another inspiring classic.
Book Synopsis Big Creek/Hurricane Creek Watershed Plan by :
Download or read book Big Creek/Hurricane Creek Watershed Plan written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Big Indian Creek written by Dave Hughes and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Absorbing, thought-provoking observations from one of America's most popular fly-fishing authors on a week he spent fishing, hiking, and writing in the Oregon desert.
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, and Rural Development Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :42 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (121 download)
Book Synopsis South Fork Watershed, KS, and Big Creek-Hurricane Creek Watershed, MO by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, and Rural Development
Download or read book South Fork Watershed, KS, and Big Creek-Hurricane Creek Watershed, MO written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, and Rural Development and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Big Burn written by Timothy Egan and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2009-10-19 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award–winner Timothy Egan turns his historian's eye to the largest-ever forest fire in America and offers an epic, cautionary tale for our time. On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno that jumped from treetop to ridge as it raged, destroying towns and timber in the blink of an eye. Forest rangers had assembled nearly ten thousand men to fight the fires, but no living person had seen anything like those flames, and neither the rangers nor anyone else knew how to subdue them. Egan recreates the struggles of the overmatched rangers against the implacable fire with unstoppable dramatic force, and the larger story of outsized president Teddy Roosevelt and his chief forester, Gifford Pinchot, that follows is equally resonant. Pioneering the notion of conservation, Roosevelt and Pinchot did nothing less than create the idea of public land as our national treasure, owned by every citizen. Even as TR's national forests were smoldering they were saved: The heroism shown by his rangers turned public opinion permanently in favor of the forests, though it changed the mission of the forest service in ways we can still witness today. This e-book includes a sample chapter of SHORT NIGHTS OF THE SHADOW CATCHER.
Book Synopsis Legends of Big Creek by : Beverly Robb
Download or read book Legends of Big Creek written by Beverly Robb and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little Brooks lives, hunts, and rides with the Plains Indians. While with them, he witnesses first hand a massacre of a pioneer woman and her two children. This act spurns hatred and bigotry between the communities of the White Settlers and Native Americans that would be felt for over 100 years. Can Little Brooks lay to rest this social strife with the truth he has witnessed?
Book Synopsis Big Creek, West Fork Watershed, Ringgold County by :
Download or read book Big Creek, West Fork Watershed, Ringgold County written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Reports and Documents by : United States. Congress
Download or read book Reports and Documents written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 2690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Billion-dollar Kiss by : Jeffrey Stepakoff
Download or read book Billion-dollar Kiss written by Jeffrey Stepakoff and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blending riveting memoir with a rare, behind-the-scenes look at how television is really made, a highly successful TV writer-producer describes why quality programming peaked in the 1980s and 90s and why viewers are now watching so much reality TV.
Book Synopsis Report by : United States. Congress. House
Download or read book Report written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on with total page 2636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report by : United States. Congress Senate
Download or read book Report written by United States. Congress Senate and published by . This book was released on with total page 2670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Decisions of the Railroad Commission of the State of California by : California Public Utilities Commission
Download or read book Decisions of the Railroad Commission of the State of California written by California Public Utilities Commission and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Saving the Best of Texas by : Richard C. Bartlett
Download or read book Saving the Best of Texas written by Richard C. Bartlett and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a deep belief in partnerships for conservation, Richard C. Bartlett, Chairman of The Nature Conservancy of Texas, explores the past and ongoing efforts of individuals and groups—private, public, federal, and state—to save the best of Texas' natural landscapes and the myriad species of plants and animals they support. Drawing on some 100,000 miles of backroads travel, Bartlett vividly describes many of the areas that, through a commitment to partnerships, have already been preserved in their natural state. Fine color photographs by Leroy Williamson provide a striking visual counterpoint to the text. These words and images give well-deserved credit to the people responsible for saving some of the best of Texas. They also highlight the need to continue to join together to preserve our natural environment so that the beauty and diversity we enjoy today will be available for future generations. It is the author's hope that Saving the Best of Texas will be a catalyst in that process.
Book Synopsis This Land Was Saved for You and Me by : Jeffrey H. Ryan
Download or read book This Land Was Saved for You and Me written by Jeffrey H. Ryan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of how America’s public lands—our city parks, national forests, and wilderness areas—came into being can be traced to a few conservation pioneers and proteges who shaped policy and advocated for open spaces. Some, like Frederick Law Olmsted and Gifford Pinchot, are well known, while others have never been given their due. Jeffrey Ryan covers the nearly century-long period between 1865 (when Olmsted contributed to the creation of Yosemite as a park and created its management plan) to the signing of the Wilderness Act of 1964. Olmsted influenced Pinchot, who became the first head of the National Forest Service, and in turn, Pinchot hired the foresters who became the founders of The Wilderness Society and creators of the Wilderness Act itself. This history emphasizes the cast of characters—among them Theodore Roosevelt, Bob Marshall, Benton MacKaye, Aldo Leopold, and Howard Zahniser—and provides context for their decisions and the political and economic factors that contributed to the triumphs and pitfalls in the quest to protect public lands. In researching the book, Ryan traveled to the places where these crusaders lived, worked, and were inspired to take up the cause to make public lands accessible to all.
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