Author: Joseph R. Evans
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
ISBN: 1555664407
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Nobody thought much of it when twelve-year-old Robert Baldeshwiler hiked out ahead of his family on the Flat-top Mountain Trail. But he would never be seen alive again. Each year, millions of people like the Baldeshwiler family come to Rocky Mountain National Park expecting nothing but a fine vacation. However, between the years of 1884 and 2009, almost three hundred people have died in the park. From taking sudden falls off steep trails, to sliding down treacherous snow fields to deadly rocks below, visitors have found out the hard way that the park is still a wild place full of potential hazards. Book jacket.
Death, Despair, and Second Chances in Rocky Mountain National Park
Author: Joseph R. Evans
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
ISBN: 1555664407
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Nobody thought much of it when twelve-year-old Robert Baldeshwiler hiked out ahead of his family on the Flat-top Mountain Trail. But he would never be seen alive again. Each year, millions of people like the Baldeshwiler family come to Rocky Mountain National Park expecting nothing but a fine vacation. However, between the years of 1884 and 2009, almost three hundred people have died in the park. From taking sudden falls off steep trails, to sliding down treacherous snow fields to deadly rocks below, visitors have found out the hard way that the park is still a wild place full of potential hazards. Book jacket.
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
ISBN: 1555664407
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Nobody thought much of it when twelve-year-old Robert Baldeshwiler hiked out ahead of his family on the Flat-top Mountain Trail. But he would never be seen alive again. Each year, millions of people like the Baldeshwiler family come to Rocky Mountain National Park expecting nothing but a fine vacation. However, between the years of 1884 and 2009, almost three hundred people have died in the park. From taking sudden falls off steep trails, to sliding down treacherous snow fields to deadly rocks below, visitors have found out the hard way that the park is still a wild place full of potential hazards. Book jacket.
R Is for Rocky Mountains
Author: Maria Kernahan
Publisher: Arcadia Children's Books
ISBN: 9781942402466
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From the Aspens on the hill to the Zig Zag of ski tracks through fresh powder, this board book takes young readers on a colorful A-to-Z tour of some of the most beautiful country in America. Full color.
Publisher: Arcadia Children's Books
ISBN: 9781942402466
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From the Aspens on the hill to the Zig Zag of ski tracks through fresh powder, this board book takes young readers on a colorful A-to-Z tour of some of the most beautiful country in America. Full color.
Rocky Mountain Birds
Author: Betty R. Seacrest
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
ISBN: 9780937321010
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Birds most often sighted in the Rocky Mountains.
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
ISBN: 9780937321010
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Birds most often sighted in the Rocky Mountains.
Fire Ecology in Rocky Mountain Landscapes
Author: William L. Baker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Fire Ecology in Rocky Mountain Landscapes is the first comprehensive review of scientific research on fire in Rocky Mountain ecosystems emphasizing the landscape scale. It is essential reading for anyone concerned with fire and fire management, including academic and agency scientists; natural resource professionals; and researchers, professors, and students involved with environmental science, land management, and resource management.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Fire Ecology in Rocky Mountain Landscapes is the first comprehensive review of scientific research on fire in Rocky Mountain ecosystems emphasizing the landscape scale. It is essential reading for anyone concerned with fire and fire management, including academic and agency scientists; natural resource professionals; and researchers, professors, and students involved with environmental science, land management, and resource management.
Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park Then & Now
Author: James H. Pickering
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
ISBN: 9781565795327
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Historic photographs paired with contemporary photographs taken from the exact same locations illuminate the evolution that has occurred in the Estes Park area, as well as in Rocky Mountain National Park, over more than a century. From the Stanley Hotel to Lake Estes, see whether the landmarks and landscape of Estes Park have been completely transformed or if they remain almost unchanged.
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
ISBN: 9781565795327
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Historic photographs paired with contemporary photographs taken from the exact same locations illuminate the evolution that has occurred in the Estes Park area, as well as in Rocky Mountain National Park, over more than a century. From the Stanley Hotel to Lake Estes, see whether the landmarks and landscape of Estes Park have been completely transformed or if they remain almost unchanged.
My Water Comes From the San Juan Mountains
Author: Tiffany Fourment
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1461743907
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
This book introduces children to the nation's watershed, the Continental Divide, and how snowmelt forms the headwaters of the rivers and streams that bring life to the land below on the Rocky Mountain's Western Slope. The entire water cycle is described from evaporation to glacier formation and the various life zones that water runs through on its way from alpine tundra to the rich farmland of the Western Slope is detailed in exquisite drawings.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1461743907
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
This book introduces children to the nation's watershed, the Continental Divide, and how snowmelt forms the headwaters of the rivers and streams that bring life to the land below on the Rocky Mountain's Western Slope. The entire water cycle is described from evaporation to glacier formation and the various life zones that water runs through on its way from alpine tundra to the rich farmland of the Western Slope is detailed in exquisite drawings.
Around Rocky Mountain National Park
Author: Suzanne Silverthorn
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439653038
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Following the establishment of Rocky Mountain National Park in 1915, promotional campaigns generated by the railroads lured wealthy travelers to the park with images of the great outdoors and the many luxuries offered by the finest hotels. Postcards were circulated proclaiming the park as the "Playground of the World." The gateway communities of Estes Park and Grand Lake became vibrant hospitality centers, and in 1920, when the two towns were connected with the opening of Fall River Road, a new era of tourism was introduced that continues today. More than 200 postcards are used in this book to provide a chronology of the early hotels, ranches, and other settings that have shaped the park's history for more than a century.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439653038
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Following the establishment of Rocky Mountain National Park in 1915, promotional campaigns generated by the railroads lured wealthy travelers to the park with images of the great outdoors and the many luxuries offered by the finest hotels. Postcards were circulated proclaiming the park as the "Playground of the World." The gateway communities of Estes Park and Grand Lake became vibrant hospitality centers, and in 1920, when the two towns were connected with the opening of Fall River Road, a new era of tourism was introduced that continues today. More than 200 postcards are used in this book to provide a chronology of the early hotels, ranches, and other settings that have shaped the park's history for more than a century.
Managing Coarse Woody Debris in Forests of the Rocky Mountains
Up in the Rocky Mountains
Author: Jennifer Eastman Attebery
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452912998
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
"By defining personal letters as a vernacular genre, Attebery provides a model for discerning immigrants' shared culture in correspondence collections. By studying their words, she brings to life small Swedish communities throughout the Rocky Mountain region."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452912998
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
"By defining personal letters as a vernacular genre, Attebery provides a model for discerning immigrants' shared culture in correspondence collections. By studying their words, she brings to life small Swedish communities throughout the Rocky Mountain region."--BOOK JACKET.
Rising from the Plains
Author: John McPhee
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374708509
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Pulitzer Prize-winning author John McPhee continues his Annals of the Former World series about the geology of North America along the fortieth parallel with Rising from the Plains. This third volume presents another exciting geological excursion with an engaging account of life—past and present—in the high plains of Wyoming. Sometimes it is said of geologists that they reflect in their professional styles the sort of country in which they grew up. Nowhere could that be more true than in the life of a geologist born in the center of Wyoming and raised on an isolated ranch. This is the story of that ranch, soon after the turn of the twentieth century, and of David Love, the geologist who grew up there, at home with the composition of the high country in the way that someone growing up in a coastal harbor would be at home with the vagaries of the sea.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374708509
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Pulitzer Prize-winning author John McPhee continues his Annals of the Former World series about the geology of North America along the fortieth parallel with Rising from the Plains. This third volume presents another exciting geological excursion with an engaging account of life—past and present—in the high plains of Wyoming. Sometimes it is said of geologists that they reflect in their professional styles the sort of country in which they grew up. Nowhere could that be more true than in the life of a geologist born in the center of Wyoming and raised on an isolated ranch. This is the story of that ranch, soon after the turn of the twentieth century, and of David Love, the geologist who grew up there, at home with the composition of the high country in the way that someone growing up in a coastal harbor would be at home with the vagaries of the sea.