Virtual Rivers
Subtitle: Lessons from the Mountain Rivers of the Colorado Front Range
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: March 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780300084849
Subjects: Applied ecology; Conservation of the environment; Hydrology (freshwater); Management of land & natural resources; Water Resources Conservation; Nature; Freshwater Ecology; Environmental Studies; South Platte River Watershed (Colo. and Neb.); Nature/Ecology; Colorado; Life Sciences - Ecology - Ecosystems; Science / General; Water use; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; History; Rivers; South Platte River Watershed (
First sentence: John Charles Fremont of the Topographical Engineers was one of the first people to write of the mountain valleys forming the upper drainage of the South Platte River.
Description: "Sparsely settled mountain areas of the world, such as Colorado's Front Range, give an impression of wild, untouched, and unchanging nature. Yet in many cases mountain rivers that appear to be pristine natural systems actually have been impaired as a result of human activities. In this book, Ellen Wohl documents two hundred years of land-use patterns on the Front Range and their wide-ranging effects on river ecosystems.".

"This book fills an important gap with a clear and comprehensive explanation of how rivers are changed by human activity. The book also includes a generous selection of striking historical and contemporary photographs, maps, and diagrams that provide a fresh perspective on the extent to which the rivers of the Colorado Front Range have undergone change during the last two centuries."--BOOK JACKET.