Author: United States National Park Service
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780428099756
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Excerpt from St. Croix River Shoreline Studies, 1995-2000 The Lower St. Croix National Scenic Riverway was designated a part of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System in 1972 by Congress, which specified that it be jointly managed by the National Park Service and the states of Minnesota and Wisconsin. The two state legislatures concurred in 1973. The National Park Service and the two state departments of natural resources created the Lower St. Croix Management Commission to cooperatively manage the riverway. The riverway is an extremely popular recreational boating area and a key management issue facing the Lower St. Croix Management Commission is regulating boating to ensure safe, enjoyable experiences and resource protection. State-imposed water surface use regulations have been in place since 1977 to restrict boat speeds and certain activities in congested areas. The management commission conducts regular surveys of boating density and has established policy that the need for regulation should be studied when density reaches 15 acres of water per moving boat in any particular area, and regulations should be imposed when density reaches 10 acres of water per moving boat. The five-mile reach of river between the north city limits of Stillwater and the Arcola Sandbar (a shallow area that largely prevents boat movement further north) is very popular with recreational boaters. It provides a highly scenic area flanked with cliffs, and with a braided channel and publicly owned islands it provides a popular area for boat-related island camping. Since 1977, waterskiing has been prohibited in this area on summer weekend afternoons. Boating density in recent years has fluctuated between and acres of water per moving craft. Concern has grown in recent years about boat congestion in the area and about island and shoreline erosion. In 1993, the management commission began considering additional boating regulations in this area; by early 1994, it was prepared to recommend the area be designated no-wake, the most restrictive speed regulation found on the river. The management commission held a public workshop on the concept on March 23 1994, anticipating as many as 100 people might attend; actual attendance was probably in excess of the 254 people who registered. The concept was so controversial that a new organization, the St. Croix Waterway Association, was formed to advocate for boater rights. Commentary at that meeting suggested that island erosion was caused by wind action or flooding, and not necessarily by boat wakes; citizens asked the agencies to conduct necessary research to determine the cause of island and shoreline erosion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Minnesota-Wisconsin Boundary Area Commission
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Category : Boats and boating
Languages : en
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Author: 3M Company
Publisher: 3m Company
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Category : 3M Company
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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A compilation of 3M voices, memories, facts and experiences from the company's first 100 years.
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Category : Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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Author: Garrison Keillor
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1951627709
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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With the warmth and humor we've come to know, the creator and host of A Prairie Home Companion shares his own remarkable story. In That Time of Year, Garrison Keillor looks back on his life and recounts how a Brethren boy with writerly ambitions grew up in a small town on the Mississippi in the 1950s and, seeing three good friends die young, turned to comedy and radio. Through a series of unreasonable lucky breaks, he founded A Prairie Home Companion and put himself in line for a good life, including mistakes, regrets, and a few medical adventures. PHC lasted forty-two years, 1,557 shows, and enjoyed the freedom to do as it pleased for three or four million listeners every Saturday at 5 p.m. Central. He got to sing with Emmylou Harris and Renée Fleming and once sang two songs to the U.S. Supreme Court. He played a private eye and a cowboy, gave the news from his hometown, Lake Wobegon, and met Somali cabdrivers who’d learned English from listening to the show. He wrote bestselling novels, won a Grammy and a National Humanities Medal, and made a movie with Robert Altman with an alarming amount of improvisation. He says, “I was unemployable and managed to invent work for myself that I loved all my life, and on top of that I married well. That’s the secret, work and love. And I chose the right ancestors, impoverished Scots and Yorkshire farmers, good workers. I’m heading for eighty, and I still get up to write before dawn every day.”
Author: Garrison Keillor
Publisher: Studio
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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"This book combines text and image to reveal the real-life origins of the place where "the women are strong, the men are good-looking and the children above average." Keillor meditates on the enduring culture of the county and on the years he spent there as a young writer and an outsider. And a short story of Lake Wobegon, "October," appears here for the first time in print."--BOOK JACKET.
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Languages : en
Pages : 278
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Author: Garrison Keillor
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101517778
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Stories, essays, poems, and personal reminiscences from the sage of Lake Wobegon When, at thirteen, he caught on as a sportswriter for the Anoka Herald, Garrison Keillor set out to become a professional writer, and so he has done—a storyteller, sometime comedian, essayist, newspaper columnist, screenwriter, poet. Now a single volume brings together the full range of his work: monologues from A Prairie Home Companion, stories from The New Yorker and The Atlantic, excerpts from novels, newspaper columns. With an extensive introduction and headnotes, photographs, and memorabilia, The Keillor Reader also presents pieces never before published, including the essays “Cheerfulness” and “What We Have Learned So Far.” Keillor is the founder and host of A Prairie Home Companion, celebrating its fortieth anniversary in 2014. He is the author of nineteen books of fiction and humor, the editor of the Good Poems collections, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Author: John O. Anfinson
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Category : Formations (Geology)
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Author: Gordon A. Harrison
Publisher: BDD Promotional Books Company
ISBN: 9780792458562
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Discusses the Allied invasion of Normandy, with extensive details about the planning stage, called Operation Overlord, as well as the fighting on Utah and Omaha Beaches.
