Southern Rivers

2024-03-15 Nature

Author : R. Scot Duncan
Release : 2024-03-15
Genre : Nature
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 286/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Southern Rivers written by R. Scot Duncan. This book was released on 2024-03-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Southern Rivers: Restoring America's Freshwater Biodiversity, R. Scot Duncan explores the environmental history and future of the rivers of the southeastern United States. These river systems are the epicenter of North American freshwater biodiversity and the top global hotspot for several aquatic taxa including mussels, turtles, snails, crayfish, and temperate zone fish; these rivers also play a prominent role in the region's history, culture, and economy. Unfortunately, centuries of industrialization have impaired the region's river systems, sacrificing biodiversity and compromising their ability to provide essential ecosystem services like drinking water, waste disposal, irrigation, navigation, and power production to human communities. And now overall waterflow is diminishing in the Southeast due to increasing heat and drought brought by climate change. As these and other threats to the region's water supply increase, it may seem necessary to prioritize between using water for natural resource conservation or reserving it for human concerns-but Duncan argues this is a false choice. Combining nature, science, and stories in a series of short, illustrated chapters, Southern Rivers takes readers on an illuminating journey of the Southeast's river systems and the many communities that depend on them. Duncan cogently articulates the challenges threatening rivers, streams, and wetlands in the face of the planet's accelerating climate and extinction crises, then turns to explore the new solutions conservationists and water managers have developed to preserve them. Ultimately, the book is both a call to action and a clear, comprehensive, practical plan to help the Southeast save its water resources and adapt to climate change by restoring the very biodiversity that is now under threat"--

Tales of Southern Rivers

2000-03-21 Sports & Recreation

Author : Zane Grey
Release : 2000-03-21
Genre : Sports & Recreation
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 413/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Tales of Southern Rivers written by Zane Grey. This book was released on 2000-03-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When not writing his famous Western novels, Zane Grey was an insatiable angler. Tales of Southern Rivers recounts his tales of fishing in the Gulf of Mexico, the Florida Keys, the Everglades, and on remote rivers in the jungles of Mexico. With many of these venues being some of today's most popular saltwater fly-fishing destinations, no one will want to miss these highly entertaining and informative yarns. Armchair fishing will never be the same.

Rivers

2013-09-10 Fiction

Author : Michael Farris Smith
Release : 2013-09-10
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 441/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Rivers written by Michael Farris Smith. This book was released on 2013-09-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Cormac McCarthy and Annie Proulx, “a wonderfully cinematic story” (The Washington Post) set in the post-Katrina South after violent storms have decimated the region. It had been raining for weeks. Maybe months. He had forgotten the last day that it hadn’t rained, when the storms gave way to the pale blue of the Gulf sky, when the birds flew and the clouds were white and sunshine glistened across the drenched land. The Gulf Coast has been brought to its knees. Years of catastrophic hurricanes have so punished and depleted the region that the government has drawn a new boundary ninety miles north of the coastline. Life below the Line offers no services, no electricity, and no resources, and those who stay behind live by their own rules—including Cohen, whose wife and unborn child were killed during an evacuation attempt. He buried them on family land and never left. But after he is ambushed and his home is ransacked, Cohen is forced to flee. On the road north, he is captured by Aggie, a fanatical, snake-handling preacher who has a colony of captives and dangerous visions of repopulating the barren region. Now Cohen is faced with a decision: continue to the Line alone, or try to shepherd the madman’s prisoners across the unforgiving land with the biggest hurricane yet bearing down—and Cohen harboring a secret that poses the greatest threat of all. Eerily prophetic in its depiction of a Southern landscape ravaged by extreme weather, Rivers is a masterful tale of survival and redemption in a world where the next devastating storm is never far behind.“This is the kind of book that lifts you up with its mesmerizing language then pulls you under like a riptide” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution).

Tales of Southern Rivers

1924 Everglades (Fla.)

Author : Zane Grey
Release : 1924
Genre : Everglades (Fla.)
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Tales of Southern Rivers written by Zane Grey. This book was released on 1924. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of hunting, fishing and exploring in the southern United States and Mexico.

Sturgeon biodiversity and conservation

2005-12-09 Science

Author : Vadim J. Birstein
Release : 2005-12-09
Genre : Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 549/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Sturgeon biodiversity and conservation written by Vadim J. Birstein. This book was released on 2005-12-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected, reviewed and revised papers from the International Conference on Sturgeon Biodiversity and Conservation held at The American Museum of Natural History in New York on 28-30 July 1994

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