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Author:

Adler, Robert W., 1955-

Title:

Restoring Colorado River ecosystems : a troubled sense of immensity / Robert W. Adler.

Publisher:

Island Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

xxiii, 311 p. : maps ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Restoration ecology--Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-303) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : Retaking old ground -- The living artery : disruptions to the river's linear connections -- Only the hills will know : changes in the watershed -- Tree of the people : tree of life -- Down the great unknown : environmental restoration in the face of scientific uncertainty -- Casting of the lots : conflicting methods and goals in environmental restoration -- Ownership of unownable things : property sights and environmental restoration at the water's edge -- An elusive and indefinable boundary : restoration and political borders -- The lovely and the usable : toward a more holistic approach to restoration -- Coda : Into new dimensions.

ISBN:

9781597260572 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1597260576 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781597260565 (cloth : alk. paper)
1597260568 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2006101562

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)

HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)