Down the Susquehanna to the Chesapeake
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Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 23,81 MB
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ISBN : 0271046651
Author :
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 23,81 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 0271046651
Author : Susan Q. Stranahan
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,52 MB
Release : 1995-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801851476
In Susquehanna, River of Dreams award-winning journalist Susan Q. Stranahan tells the sweeping story of one of America's great rivers – ranging in time from the Susquehanna's geologic origins to the modern threats to its eco-system, describing human settlements, industry and pollution, and recent efforts to save the river and its "drowned estuary," the Chesapeake Bay. The result is a unique natural history of the vast Susquehanna watershed and a compelling look at environmental issues of national importance.
Author : Tom Horton
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 48,78 MB
Release : 2003-07-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1610911164
In 1991, Island Press published Turning the Tide, a unique and accessible examination of the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem. The book took an indepth look at the Bay’s vital signs to gauge the overall health of its entire ecosystem and to assess what had been done and what remained to be done to clean up the Bay. This new edition of Turning the Tide addresses new developments of the past decade and examines the factors that will have the most significant effects on the health of the Bay in the coming years.With new case studies and updated maps, charts, and graphs, the book builds on the analytical power of ten years of experience to offer a new perspective, along with clear, science-based recommendations for the future. For all those who want to know not only how much must be done to save the Bay but what they can do and how they can make a difference, Turning the Tide is an essential source of information.
Author : Howard R. Ernst
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 12,98 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780742523517
The USA touts Chesapeake Bay as its premier environmental restoration programme, yet the Bay remains in poor condition.
Author : Shawn Kimbro
Publisher :
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 12,83 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
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ISBN : 9780615562506
Light tackle tips and techniques for fishing the Chesapeake Bay including full color photographs, fishing reports, and conservation methods for landing big fish on light tackle
Author : Ed Russell
Publisher : Wilderness Adventures Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 25,64 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.)
ISBN : 1885106947
This is a book that long needed to be written. Fly fishermen have been enjoying their sport in the Chesapeake Bay for decades. Yet, until now, no one has given it a comprehensive treatment...Ed and Bill have put together a book that is well organized and packed with invaluable information for anyone who enjoys fly or light tackle fishing in the Chesapeake Bay. Book jacket.
Author : Ronald E. Shaw
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 39,38 MB
Release : 2014-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0813145821
All but forgotten except as a part of nostalgic lore, American canals during the first half of the nineteenth century provided a transportation network that was vital to the development of the new nation. They lowered transportation costs, carried a vast grain trade from western farms to eastern ports, delivered Pennsylvania coal to New York, and carried thousands of passengers at what seemed effortless speed. Along their courses sprang up new towns and cities and with them new economic growth. Canals for a Nation brings together in one volume a survey of all the major American canals. Here are accounts of innovative engineering, of near heroic figures who devoted their lives to canals, and of canal projects that triumphed over all the uncertainties of the political process.
Author : Cameron Davidson
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,87 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.)
ISBN : 9780984162000
These aerial photos of the Chesapeake Bay Area are presented with text about local and national environmental issues.
Author : John Copeland Nagle
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 41,48 MB
Release : 2010-05-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 030016291X
John Copeland Nagle shows how our reliance on environmental law affects the natural environment through an examination of five diverse places in the American landscape: Alaska's Adak Island; the Susquehanna River; Colton in California's Inland Empire; Theodore Roosevelt National Park in the badlands of North Dakota; and Alamogordo in New Mexico. Nagle asks why some places are preserved by the law while others are not, and he finds that environmental laws often have unexpected results while other laws have surprising effects on the environment. Nagle argues that sound environmental policy requires better coordination among the many laws, regulations, and social norms that determine the values and uses of our scarce lands and waters.
Author : Martin D. Gallivan
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 13,35 MB
Release : 2018-09-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0813063671
Southern Anthropological Society James Mooney Award As Native American history is primarily studied through the lens of European contact, the story of Virginia's Powhatans has traditionally focused on the English arrival in the Chesapeake. This has left a deeper indigenous history largely unexplored--a longer narrative beginning with the Algonquians' construction of places, communities, and the connections in between. The Powhatan Landscape breaks new ground by tracing Native placemaking in the Chesapeake from the Algonquian arrival to the Powhatan's clashes with the English. Martin Gallivan details how Virginia Algonquians constructed riverine communities alongside fishing grounds and collective burials and later within horticultural towns. Ceremonial spaces, including earthwork enclosures within the center place of Werowocomoco, gathered people for centuries prior to 1607. Even after the violent ruptures of the colonial era, Native people returned to riverine towns for pilgrimages commemorating the enduring power of place. For today's American Indian communities in the Chesapeake, this reexamination of landscape and history represents a powerful basis from which to contest narratives and policies that have previously denied their existence. A volume in the series Society and Ecology in Island and Coastal Archaeology, edited by Victor D. Thompson