Wild and Scenic Rivers

Wild and Scenic Rivers
Title Wild and Scenic Rivers PDF eBook
Author Tim Palmer
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2017
Genre Art
ISBN 9780870718977

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The rivers of America flow from mountains, forests, and grasslands with astonishing beauty, essential to all life. Many of the best of these streams have been safeguarded under the National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 1968--America's premier program for the protection of our finest natural waterways. Wild and Scenic Rivers celebrates this creative conservation initiative with 160 stunning photographs and a lively history involving citizen activists, scientists, dedicated public officials, and enlightened political leaders. In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, award-winning author and photographer Tim Palmer illuminates the values of this irreplaceable system of free-flowing streams, probes its problems, and addresses its future. With a depth of experience dating almost to the inception of the wild and scenic rivers program, Palmer has captured the splendor and essence of our most extraordinary rivers with his camera, and he has told their remarkable story as no one else could do.

Paddling America

Paddling America
Title Paddling America PDF eBook
Author Susan Elliott
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 313
Release 2018-10-01
Genre Sports & Recreation
ISBN 1493033697

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The nation’s rivers connect mountains to sea, communities to natural places, and people to wildlife. America’s Wild & Scenic River system recognizes these values. Paddling America provides descriptions for paddling and exploring 50 Wild and Scenic Rivers across the country. Woven throughout the river descriptions will be small anecdotal sidebars touching on the history of the Wild & Scenic Rivers Act, the adventurers themselves, and tips for paddling. Each chapter will contain one map, specifications in accordance with paddling guidelines including GPS coordinates, put-in/takeout information, an overview of the paddle, miles and directions, full-color photos, and sidebars.

Rivers of America

Rivers of America
Title Rivers of America PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 234
Release 2006-09
Genre Nature
ISBN

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Photographer Tim Palmer presents hundreds of images of the U.S.'s rivers and discusses their protection and the life within them.

Nationwide Rivers Inventory

Nationwide Rivers Inventory
Title Nationwide Rivers Inventory PDF eBook
Author United States. Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service. Pacific Southwest Regional Office
Publisher
Pages 62
Release 1980
Genre Rivers
ISBN

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Rivers of Oregon

Rivers of Oregon
Title Rivers of Oregon PDF eBook
Author Tim Palmer
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2016
Genre Nature
ISBN 9780870718502

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Rivers of Oregon captures the beauty and the intrinsic qualities of the state's irresistible riverscapes like no other book has done. From the underwater view and from the refuge of riparian forests, from the seat of a canoe or raft and from distant mountain summits, readers will gain new perspectives on the extraordinary features that provide us with water, with life, and with scenes whose loss would leave us deeply impoverished.

Along the Wekiva River

Along the Wekiva River
Title Along the Wekiva River PDF eBook
Author Jim Robison
Publisher Arcadia Publishing
Pages 132
Release 2009
Genre History
ISBN 9780738566023

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Meandering through Orange, Lake, and Seminole Counties, this "purest form of Central Florida nature," as described by one of its champions, is also bordered by some of the region's most densely populated suburban sprawl. The Wekiva River makes up some of the best protected waters in the state with laws designed for its preservation, as it is recognized as a regional "jewel" and a resource worth saving in public trust as parks, preserves, and forests. Today visitors who paddle, boat, and hike here discover a sanctuary that seems unchanged since its earliest history, when ancient tribes piled fresh water shells, sand, bone, and pot shards to create midden mounds, and when Clay Springs and other early settlements helped draw river traffic and railroads hauled out its forest products. Its cooling springs have provided recreation for generation after generation.

The River and the Wall

The River and the Wall
Title The River and the Wall PDF eBook
Author Ben Masters
Publisher Texas A&M University Press
Pages 202
Release 2019-03-27
Genre Travel
ISBN 1623497817

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When a team of five explorers embarked on a 1,200-mile journey down the Rio Grande, the river that marks the southern boundary of Texas and the US-Mexico border, their goal was to experience and capture on film the rugged landscapes of this vast frontier before the controversial construction of a border wall changed this part of the river forever. The crew—Texas filmmaker Ben Masters, Brazilian immigrant Filipe DeAndrade, Texas conservationist Jay Kleberg, wildlife biologist Heather Mackey, and Guatemalan-American river guide Austin Alvarado—began the trip in El Paso, pedaling mountain bikes through the city’s dry river bed. Their path took them on horseback through the Big Bend, down the Wild and Scenic stretch of the river in canoes, and back to bikes from Laredo to Brownsville. They paddled the last ten miles through a forest of river cane to the Gulf of Mexico. As they made their way to the Gulf, they met and talked with the people who know and live on the river—border patrol, wildlife biologists, ranchers, politicians, farmers, social workers, locals, and travelers. They climbed the wall (in twenty seconds). They encountered rare black bears, bighorn sheep, and birds of all kinds. And they sought to understand the complexities of immigration, the efficacy of a wall, and the impact of its construction on water access, wildlife, and the culture of the borderlands. The River and the Wall is both a wild adventure on a spectacular river and a sobering commentary on the realities of walling it off.