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Title:
Management and restoration of fluvial systems with broad historical changes and human impacts / edited by L. Allan James, Sara L. Rathburn, G. Richard Whittecar.
Publisher:
Geological Society of America,
Copyright Date:
2009
Description:
x, 244 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Subject:
River engineering--United States--History.
Soil erosion--United States--History.
Nature--History.--United States--History.
Rivers--History.--Environmental aspects--United States--History.
Fluvial geomorphology--United States--History.
Other Authors:
James, L. Allan.
Rathburn, Sara L., 1962-
Whittecar, George Richard, 1952-
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Sediment regime constraints on river restoration : an example from the Lower Missouri River / Robert B. Jacobson, Dale W. Blevins, and Chance J. Bitner -- Channel, floodplain, and wetland responses to floods and overbank sedimentation, 1846-2006, Halfway Creek Marsh, Upper Mississippi Valley, Wisconsin / Faith A. Fitzpatrick, James C. Knox, and Joseph P. Schubauer-Berigan -- Persistence of effects of high sediment loading in a salmon-bearing river, northern California / Mary Ann Madej and Vicki Ozaki -- Historical channel changes in the lower Yuba and Feather Rivers, California : long-term effects of contrasting river-management strategies / L. Allan James ... [et al.] -- Channel adjustments in northern and central Italy over the last 200 years / Nicola Surian ... [et al.] -- Bank erosion along the dam-regulated lower Roanoke River, North Carolina / Cliff R. Hupp ... [et al.] -- Planform change and stream power in the Kishwaukee River watershed, Illinois : geomorphic assessment for environmental management / Inci Güneralp and Bruce L. Rhoads -- Geomorphic evolution of the Le Sueur River, Minnesota, USA, and implications for current sediment loading / Karen B. Gran ... [et al.] -- Vanishing riverscapes : a review of historical channel change on the western Great Plains / Ellen Wohl, Dena Egenhoff, and Kelly Larkin -- Characterizing environmental flows for maintenance of river ecosystems : North Fork Cache la Poudre River, Colorado / Sara L. Rathburn ... [et al.] -- Testing the linear relationship between peak annual river discharge and drainage area using long-term USGS river gauging records / Joshua C. Galster -- Geomorphic changes resulting from floods in reconfigured gravel-bed river channels in Colorado, USA / John G. Elliott and Joseph P. Capesius -- Assessing geomorphological and ecological responses in restored step-pool systems / Anne Chin ... [et al.] -- River restoration strategies in channelized, low-gradient landscapes of West Tennessee, USA / Douglas P. Smith ... [et al.].
Series:
Special paper ; 451
ISBN:
0813724511 (pbk.)
9780813724515 (pbk.)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)265738856
LCCN:
2008046779
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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