Restoring Colorado River ecosystems : a troubled sense of immensity / Robert W. Adler.
Publisher's description: Over the past century, humans have molded the Colorado River to serve their own needs, resulting in significant impacts to the river and its ecosystems. Today, many scientists, public officials, and citizens hope to restore some of the lost resources in portions of the...
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Washington :
Island Press,
[2007]
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Table of 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.