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Category : Housing and health
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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A Citizen's Guide to Radon
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Category : Housing and health
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Category : Housing and health
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Open Space and Environmental Quality
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works
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Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Lakes and Watersheds in the Sierra Nevada of California
Author: John M. Melack
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520278798
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 219
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The Sierra Nevada, California’s iconic mountain range, harbors thousands of remote high-elevations lakes from which water flows to sustain agriculture and cities. As climate and air quality in the region change, so do the watershed processes upon which these lakes depend. In order to understand the future of California’s ecology and natural resources, we need an integrated account of the environmental processes that underlie these aquatic systems. Synthesizing over three decades of research on the lakes and watersheds of the Sierra Nevada, this book develops an integrated account of the hydrological and biogeochemical systems that sustain them. With a focus on Emerald Lake in Sequoia National Park, the book marshals long-term limnological and ecological data to provide a detailed and synthetic account, while also highlighting the vulnerability of Sierra lakes to changes in climate and atmospheric deposition. In so doing, it lays the scientific foundations for predicting and understanding how the lakes and watersheds will respond.
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520278798
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 219
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The Sierra Nevada, California’s iconic mountain range, harbors thousands of remote high-elevations lakes from which water flows to sustain agriculture and cities. As climate and air quality in the region change, so do the watershed processes upon which these lakes depend. In order to understand the future of California’s ecology and natural resources, we need an integrated account of the environmental processes that underlie these aquatic systems. Synthesizing over three decades of research on the lakes and watersheds of the Sierra Nevada, this book develops an integrated account of the hydrological and biogeochemical systems that sustain them. With a focus on Emerald Lake in Sequoia National Park, the book marshals long-term limnological and ecological data to provide a detailed and synthetic account, while also highlighting the vulnerability of Sierra lakes to changes in climate and atmospheric deposition. In so doing, it lays the scientific foundations for predicting and understanding how the lakes and watersheds will respond.
EPA-440/5
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Languages : en
Pages : 346
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Languages : en
Pages : 346
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Nevada's Environmental Legacy
Author: James W. Hulse
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 0874177928
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Nevada's relatively brief history (it became a state in 1864) has been largely a story of the exploitation of its natural resources. Mining has torn down mountains and poisoned streams and groundwater. Uncontrolled grazing by vast herds of sheep and cattle has denuded grasslands and left them prey to the invasion of noxious plant species and vulnerable to wildfire. Clear-cut logging practices have changed the composition of forests and induced serious soil erosion. More recently, military testing, including hundreds of atomic blasts to determine the efficacy of nuclear weapons, has irreversibly polluted expanses of fragile desert landscape. And rampant development throughout the state over the past four decades, along with the public's growing demand for recreational facilities, has placed intolerable demands on the arid state's limited water resources and threatened the survival of numerous rare plant and animal species. Veteran historian and Nevada native James W. Hulse considers the state's complex environmental history as a series of Faustian bargains between the state's need for economic development and the industries, government agencies, and individuals that have exploited Nevada's natural resources with little concern for the long-term consequences of their activities. His survey covers all these issues, and examines public attitudes about the environment and the role of federal and state agencies in creating, interpreting, and enforcing environmental policies.
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 0874177928
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Nevada's relatively brief history (it became a state in 1864) has been largely a story of the exploitation of its natural resources. Mining has torn down mountains and poisoned streams and groundwater. Uncontrolled grazing by vast herds of sheep and cattle has denuded grasslands and left them prey to the invasion of noxious plant species and vulnerable to wildfire. Clear-cut logging practices have changed the composition of forests and induced serious soil erosion. More recently, military testing, including hundreds of atomic blasts to determine the efficacy of nuclear weapons, has irreversibly polluted expanses of fragile desert landscape. And rampant development throughout the state over the past four decades, along with the public's growing demand for recreational facilities, has placed intolerable demands on the arid state's limited water resources and threatened the survival of numerous rare plant and animal species. Veteran historian and Nevada native James W. Hulse considers the state's complex environmental history as a series of Faustian bargains between the state's need for economic development and the industries, government agencies, and individuals that have exploited Nevada's natural resources with little concern for the long-term consequences of their activities. His survey covers all these issues, and examines public attitudes about the environment and the role of federal and state agencies in creating, interpreting, and enforcing environmental policies.
Sierra Nevada Forest Plan Amendment
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Category : Forest ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 758
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Category : Forest ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 758
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Proposed Contractor-owned/contractor-operated Detention Facility, Las Vegas, Nevada Area
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Languages : en
Pages : 852
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Languages : en
Pages : 852
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Reno-Sparks Joint Water Pollution Control Joint Master Facilities Plan Expansion
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Languages : en
Pages : 532
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Languages : en
Pages : 532
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Nevada and H.R. 2262
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Bald Mountain Mine, North Operations Area Project
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Languages : en
Pages : 702
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Languages : en
Pages : 702
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