North Platte River Basin, Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska
Title | North Platte River Basin, Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Bureau of Reclamation. Region 7 |
Publisher | |
Pages | 434 |
Release | 1957 |
Genre | North Platte River Watershed |
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South Platte River Basin, Colorado-Wyoming-Nebraska
Title | South Platte River Basin, Colorado-Wyoming-Nebraska PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Bureau of Reclamation. Region 7 |
Publisher | |
Pages | 271 |
Release | 1959 |
Genre | South Platte River Watershed |
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Endangered and Threatened Species of the Platte River
Title | Endangered and Threatened Species of the Platte River PDF eBook |
Author | National Research Council |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2005-02-24 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0309092302 |
The tension between wildlife protection under the Endangered Species Act and water management in the Platte River Basin has existed for more than 25 years. The Platte River provides important habitat for migratory and breeding birds, including three endangered or threatened species: the whooping crane, the northern Great Plains population of the piping plover, and the interior least tern. The leading factors attributed to the decline of the cranes are historical overhunting and widespread habitat destruction and, for the plovers and terns, human interference during nesting and the loss of riverine nesting sites in open sandy areas that have been replaced with woodlands, sand and gravel mines, housing, and roadways. Extensive damming has disrupted passage of the endangered pallid sturgeon and resulted in less suitable habitat conditions such as cooler stream flows, less turbid waters, and inconsistent flow regimes. Commercial harvesting, now illegal, also contributed to the decline of the sturgeon. Endangered and Threatened Species of the Platte River addresses the habitat requirements for these federally protected species. The book further examines the scientific aspects of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's instream-flow recommendations and habitat suitability guidelines and assesses the science concerning the connections among the physical systems of the river as they relate to species' habitats.
Classification of Public Lands Administered by the Bureau of Land Management, North Platte River Basin, Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska
Title | Classification of Public Lands Administered by the Bureau of Land Management, North Platte River Basin, Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Missouri River Basin Studies |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1962 |
Genre | Colorado |
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Water-quality Assessment of the South Platte River Basin, Colorado, Nebraska, and Wyoming
Title | Water-quality Assessment of the South Platte River Basin, Colorado, Nebraska, and Wyoming PDF eBook |
Author | David W. Litke |
Publisher | |
Pages | 76 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Freshwater ecology |
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Water Resource Appraisals for Hydroelectric Licensing
Title | Water Resource Appraisals for Hydroelectric Licensing PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Federal Power Commission. Bureau of Power |
Publisher | |
Pages | 22 |
Release | 1966 |
Genre | Hydroelectric power plants |
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Key to individual areas, interpretive index. Maps 3, 4-5, 6 and 7
Title | Key to individual areas, interpretive index. Maps 3, 4-5, 6 and 7 PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Missouri River Basin Studies |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1962 |
Genre | Colorado |
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