Author: North Carolina. Dept. of Conservation and DevelopmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 1548
Book Description
Biennial Report of the North Carolina Department of Conservation & Development
Author: North Carolina. Dept. of Conservation and DevelopmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 1548
Book Description
ORRRC Study Report
Author: Mount Mitchell and the Black Mountains
Author: Timothy SilverPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807854235
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
This volume looks at the natural and human history of North Carolina's Mount Mitchell, part of the Black Mountain range and the highest peak in the United States. It chronicles the geological forces that created this landscape, traces its environmental change and human intervention.
Southern Waters
Author: Craig E. ColtenPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807156515
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Water has dominated images of the South throughout history, from Hernando de Soto's 1541 crossing of the Mississippi to tragic scenes of flooding throughout the Gulf South after Hurricane Katrina. But these images tell only half the story: as urban, industrial, and population growth create unprecedented demands on water in the South, the problems of pollution and water shortages grow ever more urgent. In Southern Waters: The Limits to Abundance, Craig E. Colten addresses how the South -- in an environment fraught with uncertainty -- can navigate the twin risks of too much water and not enough. From the arrival of the first European settlers, the South's inhabitants have pursued a course of maximum exploitation and control of the area's plentiful waters, investing widely in wetland drainage and massive flood-control projects. Disputes over southern waterways go back nearly as far: obstruction of fish migration by mill dams prompted new policies to protect aquatic life as early as the colonial era. Colten argues that such conflicts, which have heightened dramatically since the explosive urbanization of the mid-twentieth century, will only become more frequent and intense, making the shift toward sustainable use a national imperative. In tracing the evolving uses and abuses of southern waters, Colten offers crucial insights into the complex historical geography of water throughout the region. A masterful analysis of the ways in which past generations harnessed and consumed water, Southern Waters also stands as a guide to adapting our water usage to cope with the looming shortage of this once-abundant resource.
ORRC Study Report
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : National parks and reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
The Deep River Coalfield
Author: James H. ChapmanPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476629021
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
The region along Deep River in central North Carolina once boasted a small but significant coal mining industry that from the early 1800s to the end of the 20th century provided fuel for manufacturing and domestic use. Confronted by natural obstacles and other challenges--including a devastating explosion in 1925 that killed 53 men and boys--entrepreneurs made numerous attempts (some successful, some not) to harness the power of coal in a state still defining itself in a modernizing nation. Iron forges and hearths required ample supplies of coal to meet local demand, and the Deep River deposits provided them when no others existed.
Catalog of Books and Reports in the Bureau of Mines Technical Library, Pittsburgh, Pa
Author: United States. Bureau of Mines. Technical Library, PittsburghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Biennial Report of the North Carolina State Department of Archives and History
Author: North Carolina. State Department of Archives and HistoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
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