Author: Kathleen A. Brosnan
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826323521
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Shows how the people of Denver, Colorado Springs, and Pueblo pushed their cities to the top of the new urban hierarchy following the discovery of gold, marginalizing the indigenous peoples.
Uniting Mountain & Plain
Author: Kathleen A. Brosnan
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826323521
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Shows how the people of Denver, Colorado Springs, and Pueblo pushed their cities to the top of the new urban hierarchy following the discovery of gold, marginalizing the indigenous peoples.
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826323521
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Shows how the people of Denver, Colorado Springs, and Pueblo pushed their cities to the top of the new urban hierarchy following the discovery of gold, marginalizing the indigenous peoples.
Flowers of Mountain and Plain
Author: Edith Schwartz Clements
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wild flowers
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wild flowers
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Mountains and Plains
Author: Dennis H. Knight
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300185928
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Many changessome discouraging, others hopefulhave occurred in the Rocky Mountain region since the first edition of this widely acclaimed book was published. Wildlife habitat has become more fragmented, once-abundant sage grouse are now scarce, and forest fires occur more frequently. At the same time, wolves have been successfully reintroduced, and new approaches to conservation have been adopted. For this updated and expanded Second Edition, the authors provide a highly readable synthesis of research undertaken in the past two decades and address two important questions: How can ecosystems be used so that future generations benefit from them as we have? How can we anticipate and adapt to climate changes while conserving biological diversity?
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300185928
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Many changessome discouraging, others hopefulhave occurred in the Rocky Mountain region since the first edition of this widely acclaimed book was published. Wildlife habitat has become more fragmented, once-abundant sage grouse are now scarce, and forest fires occur more frequently. At the same time, wolves have been successfully reintroduced, and new approaches to conservation have been adopted. For this updated and expanded Second Edition, the authors provide a highly readable synthesis of research undertaken in the past two decades and address two important questions: How can ecosystems be used so that future generations benefit from them as we have? How can we anticipate and adapt to climate changes while conserving biological diversity?
Thirty-one Years on the Plains and in the Mountains
Author: William F. Drannan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
Howes and others give scathing review of this work as unreliable. Drannan's wife may have actually written most of the book, based on her husband's stories. Drannan has himself as the rescuer of Olive Oatman, and a companion of Kit Carson.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
Howes and others give scathing review of this work as unreliable. Drannan's wife may have actually written most of the book, based on her husband's stories. Drannan has himself as the rescuer of Olive Oatman, and a companion of Kit Carson.
To Think Like a Mountain
Author: Niels Sparre Nokkentved
Publisher: Washington State University Press
ISBN: 1636820662
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
In the West, shortsighted human self-interest has resulted in devastating environmental losses. The fur trade decimated beaver populations, and streams and wetland ecosystems deteriorated. Though most mining ceased by the late 1920s, water running from the Pacific Mine nearly a century later still carried ten times the lead level standard set by the federal Clean Water Act. Where grazing depleted native bunchgrasses, fire-prone cheatgrass grew in its place. Migrating from Idaho streams, salmon once reached the ocean in ten to fourteen days. Now it takes fifty or more. In 2016, a snowstorm blew a flock of snow geese off course. They landed on contaminated water, and about three thousand died. Author Niels S. Nokkentved takes a fresh look at environmental challenges affecting Northwest residents. His essays examine cultural conflicts over resource extraction, threats to watersheds from abandoned mines, wolf recovery in the northern Rocky Mountains, the lingering effects of livestock grazing on western rangelands, and the rapidly disappearing sage grouse. They discuss the importance of forest fires, the value of beavers, the failed promises of salmon hatcheries, the reasons behind the decline of the timber industry in the Pacific Northwest, and how unlikely allies learned to set aside their differences in order to resolve long-standing disputes. Nokkentved’s goal is to encourage people to think like a mountain--in other words, to consider the long-term consequences. He shares his connection to each concern as well as his own evidence-based perspective. He believes that it most profits society--collectively and as individuals--when people respect the balance of nature, and he wants to draw others to the same conclusion.
Publisher: Washington State University Press
ISBN: 1636820662
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
In the West, shortsighted human self-interest has resulted in devastating environmental losses. The fur trade decimated beaver populations, and streams and wetland ecosystems deteriorated. Though most mining ceased by the late 1920s, water running from the Pacific Mine nearly a century later still carried ten times the lead level standard set by the federal Clean Water Act. Where grazing depleted native bunchgrasses, fire-prone cheatgrass grew in its place. Migrating from Idaho streams, salmon once reached the ocean in ten to fourteen days. Now it takes fifty or more. In 2016, a snowstorm blew a flock of snow geese off course. They landed on contaminated water, and about three thousand died. Author Niels S. Nokkentved takes a fresh look at environmental challenges affecting Northwest residents. His essays examine cultural conflicts over resource extraction, threats to watersheds from abandoned mines, wolf recovery in the northern Rocky Mountains, the lingering effects of livestock grazing on western rangelands, and the rapidly disappearing sage grouse. They discuss the importance of forest fires, the value of beavers, the failed promises of salmon hatcheries, the reasons behind the decline of the timber industry in the Pacific Northwest, and how unlikely allies learned to set aside their differences in order to resolve long-standing disputes. Nokkentved’s goal is to encourage people to think like a mountain--in other words, to consider the long-term consequences. He shares his connection to each concern as well as his own evidence-based perspective. He believes that it most profits society--collectively and as individuals--when people respect the balance of nature, and he wants to draw others to the same conclusion.
Landscapes of Colorado
Author: Ann Scarlett Daley
Publisher: SF Design, LLC / Frescobooks
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This overview of the rich vein of contemporary art in Colorado highlights the varied work created in response to the natural beauty of the state.
Publisher: SF Design, LLC / Frescobooks
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This overview of the rich vein of contemporary art in Colorado highlights the varied work created in response to the natural beauty of the state.
United States National Commission for UNESCO, Report on Mountain-Plains Regional Conference on UNESCO, Denver, Colorado, May, 1947
Author: United States. Department of State
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Seldom Seen
Author: Patrick Dobson
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803226438
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
In May 1995, with nothing but a backpack and a vague sense of disquiet, Patrick Dobson left his home and a steady if deadening job in Kansas City, Missouri. Over the next two and a half months he made his way to Helena, Montana, letting chance encounters guide him to a deeper sense of who he was and where he was going. His chronicle of this journey charts his experiences with the seldom-seen people of the small towns, the far-flung outposts, and the Great Plains that make up "our America."
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803226438
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
In May 1995, with nothing but a backpack and a vague sense of disquiet, Patrick Dobson left his home and a steady if deadening job in Kansas City, Missouri. Over the next two and a half months he made his way to Helena, Montana, letting chance encounters guide him to a deeper sense of who he was and where he was going. His chronicle of this journey charts his experiences with the seldom-seen people of the small towns, the far-flung outposts, and the Great Plains that make up "our America."
She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain
Author: Jonathan Emmett
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416936521
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
A new version of the traditional American folk song, in which the expected guest will be wearing frilly pink pajamas and juggling with jelly when she comes.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416936521
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
A new version of the traditional American folk song, in which the expected guest will be wearing frilly pink pajamas and juggling with jelly when she comes.
Report of James W. Taylor, on the Mineral Resources of the United States East of the Rocky Mountains [1867]
Author: United States. Department of the Treasury
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gold mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gold mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description