Author: James SpruntPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Chronicles of the Cape Fear River, 1660-1916
Author: James SpruntPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Guide to Common Wetland Plants of North Carolina
Author: Kristie GianopulosPublisher:
ISBN: 9780578863771
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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This fully illustrated guide provides information for identifying over 200 species of plants commonly found in North Carolina's mountain, piedmont, and coastal plain wetlands. It is designed for anyone interested in the state's wetland flora and contains: organization by plant type, key identifying features, maps showing relative commonness by ecoregion, status information from the National Wetland Plant List, habitat information, and a section on commonly confused plants. Wetland plants are indicators of the duration of water in an area. The ability to identify wetland plants is useful to anyone who needs to know where a wetland lies, whether it be landowner, regulator, developer, government, or conservation organization. This version is an update to the 1997 Common Wetland Plants of North Carolina written and illustrated by Karen Kendig before she retired from NC DEQ. The original guide included 128 taxa; this newly revised edition includes 206 taxa, photographs of all taxa, notation of non-native species, and other updated information. Wetlands are valuable, vanishing resources that provide useful functions including water storage and purification, wildlife and aquatic habitat, and outdoor recreation and education. We hope visitors to wetlands will recognize and appreciate the value of these wonderlands, beginning with the observation of wetland plants and animals.
Know Your Watersheds
Author: United States. Forest ServicePublisher:
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Category : Water-supply
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Where the Water Goes
Author: David OwenPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698189906
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
“Wonderfully written…Mr. Owen writes about water, but in these polarized times the lessons he shares spill into other arenas. The world of water rights and wrongs along the Colorado River offers hope for other problems.” —Wall Street Journal An eye-opening account of where our water comes from and where it all goes. The Colorado River is an essential resource for a surprisingly large part of the United States, and every gallon that flows down it is owned or claimed by someone. David Owen traces all that water from the Colorado’s headwaters to its parched terminus, once a verdant wetland but now a million-acre desert. He takes readers on an adventure downriver, along a labyrinth of waterways, reservoirs, power plants, farms, fracking sites, ghost towns, and RV parks, to the spot near the U.S.–Mexico border where the river runs dry. Water problems in the western United States can seem tantalizingly easy to solve: just turn off the fountains at the Bellagio, stop selling hay to China, ban golf, cut down the almond trees, and kill all the lawyers. But a closer look reveals a vast man-made ecosystem that is far more complex and more interesting than the headlines let on. The story Owen tells in Where the Water Goes is crucial to our future: how a patchwork of engineering marvels, byzantine legal agreements, aging infrastructure, and neighborly cooperation enables life to flourish in the desert—and the disastrous consequences we face when any part of this tenuous system fails.
Low-flow Characteristics and Discharge Profiles for Selected Streams in the Cape Fear River Basin, North Carolina, Through 1998
Author: J. Curtis WeaverPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hydraulic engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Cape Fear River, N.C.
Author: United States. Army. Corps of EngineersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cape Fear River (N.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
North Carolina Rivers
Author: John HairrPublisher: History Press Library Editions
ISBN: 9781540204677
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
John Hairr crafts a captivating study of the Tarheel State's rivers. The Cape Fear, the New, the Pee Dee: these are the streams that course through North Carolina's history, and Hairr navigates them all, while also exploring lesser-known waters. The only natural history to trace all of the state's rivers in a single volume, this is a must-read.
Paddling Eastern North Carolina
Author: Paul FergusonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780972026826
Category : Canoes and canoeing
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2142
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