Downstream: Adaptive Management of Glen Canyon Dam and the Colorado River Ecosystem [1 ed.] 9780309593496, 9780309065795

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Downstream: Adaptive Management of Glen Canyon Dam and the Colorado River Ecosystem [1 ed.]
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The second highest concrete-arch dam in the United States, Glen Canyon Dam was built to control the flow of the Colorado

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The second highest concrete-arch dam in the United States, Glen Canyon Dam was built to control the flow of the Colorado

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The geologist and explorer's own account of his perilous venture into one of the last unmapped portions of the cont

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In 1923, America paid close attention, via special radio broadcasts, newspaper headlines, and cover stories in popular m

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This collection of papers on the geology of the Grand Canyon and the Colorado River is an outgrowth of informal conversa

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Recent studies of past climate and streamflow conditions have broadened understanding of long-term water availability in

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The Colorado River is in crisis. Persistent drought, climate change, and growing demands from ongoing urbanization threa

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This study assessed the downstream river system adaptation in response to upstream damming on the Ribb River, Ethiopia,

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The Colorado River Basin’s importance cannot be overstated. Its living river system supplies water to roughly forty mill

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This is a very good resource for geomorphologists and anyone that needs to assess a watershed or stream channel. The met

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