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Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper
Author: Desert Winds
Author: Carol S. BreedPublisher:
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Category : Eolian processes
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
A Natural History of the Mojave Desert
Author: Lawrence R. WalkerPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816538417
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
The Mojave Desert has a rich natural history. Despite being sandwiched between the larger Great Basin and Sonoran Deserts, it has enough mountains, valleys, canyons, and playas for any eager explorer. Ancient and current waterways carve the bajadas and valley bottoms. This diverse topography gives rise to a multitude of habitats for plants and animals, many of which are found nowhere else in the world. A Natural History of the Mojave Desert explores how a combination of complex geology, varied geography, and changing climate has given rise to intriguing flora and fauna—including almost 3,000 plant species and about 380 terrestrial vertebrate animal species. Of these, one quarter of the plants and one sixth of the animals are endemic. The authors, who, combined, have spent more than six decades living in and observing the Mojave Desert, offer a scientifically insightful and personally observed understanding of the desert. They invite readers to understand how the Mojave Desert looks, sounds, feels, tastes, and smells. They prompt us to understand how humans have lived in this desert where scant vegetation and water have challenged humans, past and present. A Natural History of the Mojave Desert provides a lively and informed guide to understanding how life has adapted to the hidden riverbeds, huge salt flats, tiny wetlands, and windswept hills that characterize this iconic desert.
Desert Geomorphology
Author: Ronald U. CookePublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9780203020593
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Including recent research findings from terrestrial satellite imagery, the study of planetary landscapes, and advances in laboratory work, this also covers the environmental processes involved in desertification and the solution of planning and
Camping & Wilderness Survival
Author: Paul TawrellPublisher: Paul Tawrell
ISBN: 9780974082028
Category : Camping
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
Book Description
Extensively researched and illustrated guidebook of nearly every conceivable aspect of outdoor camping and survival in all types of terrain and climate.
Wilderness Camping & Hiking
Author: Paul TawrellPublisher: Paul Tawrell
ISBN: 9780974082035
Category : Backpacking
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The aim of this book is to entertain its readers, to alert readers to the potential dangers and emergencies that might occur inthe wilderness and how to avoid them.
The Forest Worker
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Category : Forest management
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
Book Description
West of the West
Author: Leonard MichaelsPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520201644
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
A vivid collection of stories, essays, remembrances and poems, conceived and organized as a journey through California, by a diverse and splendid array of writers including Jack Kerouac, Amy Tan, M.F.K. Fisher, Tom Wolfe, and Gore Vidal.
Foreign Agriculture Report
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Meteorology, Weather, and Methods of Forecasting, Description of Meteorological Instruments and River Flood Predictions in the United States
Author: Thomas RussellPublisher:
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Category : Flood forecasting
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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