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Where Land and Water Meet: A Western Landscape Transformed

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Description for Where Land and Water Meet: A Western Landscape Transformed Paperback. Water and land interrelate in surprising and ambiguous ways, and riparian zones, where land and water meet, have effects far outside their boundaries. Using the Malheur Basin as a case study, this book explores the ways people envisioned boundaries between water and land, the ways they have altered these places, and the often unintended results. Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books. Num Pages: 248 pages, 30 photos. BIC Classification: HBJK; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 16. Weight in Grams: 386.

Water and land interrelate in surprising and ambiguous ways, and riparian zones, where land and water meet, have effects far outside their boundaries. Using the Malheur Basin in southeastern Oregon as a case study, this intriguing and nuanced book explores the ways people have envisioned boundaries between water and land, the ways they have altered these places, and the often unintended results.

The Malheur Basin, once home to the largest cattle empires in the world, experienced unintended widespread environmental degradation in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. After establishment in 1908 of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge as a ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Series
Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
Number of Pages
268
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9780295984995
SKU
V9780295984995
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Nancy Langston
Nancy Langston is associate professor of environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the author of Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares: The Paradox of Old Growth in the Inland West.

Reviews for Where Land and Water Meet: A Western Landscape Transformed
"In Where Land and Water Meet, environmental historian Nancy Langston delivers an intricate, well-researched exposé of how changes in human values and social goals have informed land use and land management decisions at the present-day Malheur National Wildlife Refuge..[T]his is an excellent example of environmental history by an experienced researcher and writer."
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