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Category : Colorado River Indian Reservation (Ariz. and Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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Historical Water Uses, Lower Colorado River Below Davis Dam Through 1977
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Category : Colorado River Indian Reservation (Ariz. and Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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A Brief Survey of the Lower Colorado River from Davis Dam to the International Border
Author: Albert H. SchroederPublisher:
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Category : Arizona
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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Lost, a Desert River and Its Native Fishes
Author: Gordon MuellerPublisher:
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Category : Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
Languages : en
Pages : 90
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The Colorado River had one of the most unique fish communities in the world. Seventy-five percent of those species were found nowhere else in the world. Settlement of the lower basin brought dramatic change to both the river and its native fish. Those changes began more than 120 years ago as settlers began stocking nonnative fishes. By 1930, nonnative fish had spread throughout the lower basin and replaced native communities. All resemblance of historic river conditions faded with the construction of Hoover Dam in 1935 and other large water development projects. Today, few remember what the Colorado River was really like. Seven of the nine mainstream fishes are now Federally-protected as endangered. Federal and state agencies are attempting to recover these fish. However, progress has been frustrated due to the severity of human impact. This report represents testimony, old descriptions, and photographs describing the changes that have taken place in hopes that it will provide managers, biologists, and the interested public a better appreciation of the environment that shaped these unique fish.
Lower Colorado River, Habitat Conservation Plan, Description and Assessment of Operations, Maintenance, and Sensitive Species, Biological Assessment
Author: The Ecology of the Lower Colorado River from Davis Dam to the Mexico-United States International Boundary
Author: Robert D. OhmartPublisher:
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Category : Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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A Brief Survey of the Lower Colorado River from Davis Dam to the International Border
Author: Albert H. SchroederPublisher:
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Category : Arizona
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Riverflows Between Davis Dam and Yuma, Arizona
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Category : Flood dams and reservoirs
Languages : en
Pages : 98
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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.
Water Resources Research in the Lower Colorado River Basin, 1977-1978
Author: E. Nathan CooperPublisher:
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Category : Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
Languages : en
Pages : 90
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Importance, Preservation, and Management of Riparian Habitat
Author: Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station (Fort Collins, Colo.)Publisher:
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Category : Nature conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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"Twelve presented and 15 contributed papers highlight what is known about this unique, diminishing vegetative type: characteristics, classification systems, associated fauna, use conflicts, management alternatives, and research needs. Speakers stressed the continuity and interrelationships of riparian ecosystems, their wildlife and vegetation, historic and current uses"--Abstract.