Virtual Rivers
Lessons from the Mountain Rivers of the Colorado Front Range
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Word Count
56,000 words, Guess
Page Count
224 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Internet Archivevirtualriversles0000wohl
- ISBN-100300084846
- ISBN-139780300084849
- Goodreads1519641
- Library of Congress Control Number00043771
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number44764255
- Better World Books9780300084849
- Open LibraryOL9845488M
Classifications
- LCCGB1227.S67W65 2001
- LCCGB 1227 S67 W65 2001
- LCCGB1227.S67 W65 2001
Description
"Sparsely settled mountain areas of the world, such as Colorado's Front Range, give an impression of wild, untouched, and unchanging nature. Yet in many cases mountain rivers that appear to be pristine natural systems actually have been impaired as a result of human activities. In this book, Ellen Wohl documents two hundred years of land-use patterns on the Front Range and their wide-ranging effects on river ecosystems.". "This book fills an important gap with a clear and comprehensive explanation of how rivers are changed by human activity. The book also includes a generous selection of striking historical and contemporary photographs, maps, and diagrams that provide a fresh perspective on the extent to which the rivers of the Colorado Front Range have undergone change during the last two centuries."--BOOK JACKET.
First Sentence
John Charles Fremont of the Topographical Engineers was one of the first people to write of the mountain valleys forming the upper drainage of the South Platte River.
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