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Virtual rivers : lessons from the mountain rivers of the Colorado front range

Title
Virtual rivers : lessons from the mountain rivers of the Colorado front range / Ellen E. Wohl.
Author
Wohl, Ellen E., 1962-
Publication
New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2001.

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Description
x, 210 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm
Summary
"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."--Jacket.
Subject
  • Water use > South Platte River Watershed (Colo. and Neb.) > History
  • Rivers > Colorado > History
  • Rivers
  • Water use
  • South Platte River Watershed (Colo. and Neb.) > History
  • Colorado
  • United States > South Platte River Watershed
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-207) and index.
Contents
OF RIVERS AND VIRTUAL RIVERS: The study of rivers -- Human impacts on rivers -- The physical framework -- Biological communities -- Virtual rivers -- Before the Europeans -- THE BEAVER MEN, 1811-1859 -- CIVILIZATION COMES TO THE FRONT RANGE, 1859-1990: Gold fever -- Timber harvest and tie drives -- A plumbing system for crops -- Roads -- Recreation -- Grazing -- The end result? -- THE PRESENT, AND THE FUTURE: Instream flow -- Urbanization -- Water quality and ecotoxicology -- River form versus river function -- Respect for rivers.
ISBN
  • 0300084846
  • 9780300084849
LCCN
00043771
OCLC
  • ocm44764255
  • 44764255
  • SCSB-1217709
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library