Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: The Long Trail Home
Author: Kiersi BurkhartPublisher: Darby Creek
ISBN: 1512430900
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Twelve-year-old Rivka is tired of everything about being Jewish, but during a summer at Quartz Creek Ranch, she is inspired to explore and embrace her heritage.
Water-supply Paper
Author: Newtown Creek
Author: Anthony HamboussiPublisher: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 9781568988580
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Once a tidal creek meandering through marshlands rich in herbs, grasses, fish, waterfowl, and oysters, Newtown Creek today is a toxic cesspool that brings up raw sewage every time it rains. A tributary of New York's East River that forms part of the border between Brooklyn and Queens, Newtown Creek has long been at the heart of the city's "industrial backyard," serving as home to numerous industries, storage/warehouse facilities, waste transfer stations, and power plants, and as the dumping ground for unwanted byproducts and toxic waste. Site of a 17-million-gallon underground oil spill that still contaminates the area, Newtown Creek is currently under consideration by the Environmental Protection Agency for designation as a Superfund site, but the creek, whose waterfront is for the most part inaccessible to the public, is still largely unknown to residents and visitors of New York alike. Newtown Creek: A Photographic Survey of New York's Industrial Waterfront is an extensive documentation of this forgotten landscape that shows the evolution of the built environment over five years in more than 230 images. Photographer Anthony Hamboussi followed the creek through the neighborhoods of Hunter's Point, Greenpoint, and Bushwick, shooting over fences and gates where he could not gain access, to record the bare industrial landscape. From the ruins of Morgan Oil and the Newtown Metal Corporation, to the construction of the new water treatment facility, to the footprints of the former Maspeth gas holders, Hamboussi recorded sites that may soon undergo further transformations. His survey captures the creek at a moment in time when gentrification and revitalization are just starting to change the area, providing a glimpse into the history of industrial New York. An insightful essay by Paul Parkhill puts Hamboussi's work into context.
Geological Survey Water-supply Paper
Author: Rural Development, Agriculture, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1988
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Rural Development, Agriculture, and Related AgenciesPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
Rural development, agriculture, and related agencies appropriations for 1988
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related AgenciesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
Reading Shaver’s Creek
Author: Ian MarshallPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271081589
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
What does it mean to know a place? What might we learn about the world by returning to the same place year after year? What would a long-term record of such visits tell us about change and permanence and our place in the natural world? This collection explores these and related questions through a series of reflective essays and poems on Pennsylvania’s Shaver’s Creek landscape from the past decade. Collected as part of The Ecological Reflections Project—a century-long effort to observe and document changes to the natural world in the central Pennsylvanian portion of the Appalachian Forest—these pieces show how knowledge of a place comes from the information and perceptions we gather from different perspectives over time. They include Marcia Bonta’s keen observations about how humans knowingly and unknowingly affect the landscape; Scott Weidensaul’s view of the forest as a battlefield; and Katie Fallon describing the sounds of human and nonhuman life along a trail. Together, these selections create a place-based portrait of a vivid ecosystem during the first decade of the twenty-first century. Featuring contributions by nationally known nature writers and local experts, Reading Shaver’s Creek is a unique, complex depiction of the central Pennsylvania landscape and its ecology. We know the land and creatures of places such as Shaver’s Creek are bound to change throughout the century. This book is the first step to documenting how. In addition to the editor, contributors to this volume are Marcia Bonta, Michael P. Branch, Todd Davis, Katie Fallon, David Gessner, Hannah Inglesby, John Lane, Carolyn Mahan, Jacy Marshall-McKelvey, Steven Rubin, David Taylor, Julianne Lutz Warren, and Scott Weidensaul.
Kansas Geographic Names: Alphabetical finding list [general
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.). Branch of Geographic NamesPublisher:
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Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Ground Water in the Permafrost Regions of Alaska
Author: John R. WilliamsPublisher:
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Category : Frozen ground
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Additional title page description: Ground water in permafrost regions in Alaska occurs according to the same geologic and hydrologic principles prevailing in temperate regions.