Return To Rocky Mountain Watershed

Author : Bill Burch
Publisher : outskirtspress
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781478726234

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Return to Rocky Mountain Watershed by Bill Burch Pdf

In the second book of the popular Watershed series we meet Laura Menard. She is a college professor of fish biology, a licensed fishing guide, and an EMT for a Wisconsin Search and Rescue team, and has returned to the remote community of Towne, located in a secluded Rocky Mountain watershed surrounded by snow capped mountains. Newly widowed, Laura has no idea what to expect upon her unannounced arrival. Some of her old friends have passed away or moved on, but Laura is soon reunited with Ted Miller, her friend and a ranger with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. She'll also become involved with the FBI team of Skye Coulter and Phil Newberry, and undercover border agent Milo Damon. Longing for the tranquility of mountain life and the people who live there, Laura has returned to the valley to find inner peace and healing, but she soon finds herself trapped by the flames of a raging forest fire, and later she gets caught up in a bear bile poaching operation. And while she learns that even in a small mountain community, you can't escape greed, to even murder, she also finds that home is where the heart is. Return to Rocky Mountain Watershed is an expressive, humorous, and heartwarming novel that celebrates the joys and tribulations of small-town life and the majesty of the Rocky Mountains.

Author : Bill Burch
Publisher : Outskirts Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1478769041

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Rocky Mountain Watershed - Sanctuary by Bill Burch Pdf

When Laura Menard, a transplanted college professor from the Midwest, finds herself working with Ted Miller, a back country ranger for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, she does not expect to be caught in the crossfire between two ruthless drug cartels fighting for control of the Whoosh Watershed-nor does she expect to fall in love... But the conflict is real, escalating to the point where a private jet, full of heroin, is brought down by a well-placed bomb, and the lone survivor of the plane crash, a beautiful young woman, is rescued by a retired Army K-9 veteran and his orphaned wolf pup. Ted and Laura join forces with the FBI to combat the flow of drugs into their beloved Watershed, and when Ted Miller is offered a game warden's job in Northern Wisconsin, he asks Laura to marry him and return to the Midwest. Laura-torn between her love of Ted and her love of the Rockies-must make a difficult decision, a decision complicated by the return of a former lover. Rocky Mountain Watershed Sanctuary is packed with adventure, romance, and pulse-pounding excitement-and written with humor and a deep respect for the people and animals who inhabit the small mountain communities of the Rocky Mountain Watershed.

Author : Bill Burch
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781450271486

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Rocky Mountain Watershed by Bill Burch Pdf

In a secluded Rocky Mountain watershed, gathering rivulets of melting ice form from snow-capped peaks. They launch slowly down headwater creeks, meander through plush beaver meadows, and catapult between deep canyon walls, slowed only momentarily by a large reservoir. They then race through the white-water rapids of Devil's Gulp and eventually intersect Towne, a remote mountain community. Within this community lives a host of people with a variety of successes, failures, loves, ambitions, obsessions, hopes, and fears. There's Laura Menard, who left Wisconsin looking for a job but finds only fishing. When her car breaks down near Maggie's Corner, Laura discovers that people do care. There's former Wall Street broker Richard Whendelstat, who gave up the fast pace of life to open the Flies and Lies fishing resort. And then there's Bradley Hawkins, who came to the area on a fishing trip and never left; his wife now wants a divorce. With wry humor, joy for life, and an immense appreciation of the mountains and small-town living, Rocky Mountain Watershed narrates the stories of these characters, who face personal decisions that will change their lives and those around them-as well as affecting the common thread that binds them all, the river.

Author : M. Martinelli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Watershed management
ISBN : MINN:31951D02996108G

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Watershed Management in the Rocky Mountain Alpine and Subalpine Zones by M. Martinelli Pdf

Author : Christopher Armstrong,Matthew Evenden,H.V. Nelles
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773581449

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The River Returns by Christopher Armstrong,Matthew Evenden,H.V. Nelles Pdf

Alberta's iconic river has been dammed and plumbed, made to spin hydro-electric turbines, and used to cleanse Calgary. Artificial lakes in the mountains rearrange its flow; downstream weirs and ditches divert it to irrigate the parched prairie. Far from being wild, the Bow is now very much a human product: its fish are as manufactured as its altered flow, changed water quality, and newly stabilized and forested banks. The River Returns brings the story of the Bow River's transformation full circle through an exploration of the recent revolution in environmental thinking and regulation that has led to new limits on what might be done with and to the river. Rivers have been studied from many perspectives, but too often the relationship between nature and people, between rivers and the cultures that have grown up beside them, have been separated. The River Returns illuminates the ways in which humans, both inadvertently and consciously, have interacted with nature to make the Bow.

Author : Donald F. Potts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Watersheds
ISBN : MINN:31951D02889021Q

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Watershed Modeling for Fire Management Planning in the Northern Rocky Mountains by Donald F. Potts Pdf

Author : Richard N. Williams
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005-11-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 0080454305

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Return to the River by Richard N. Williams Pdf

Return to the River will describe a new ecosystem-based approach to the restoration of salmon and steelhead populations in the Columbia River, once one of the most productive river basins for anadromous salmonids on the west coast of North America. The approach of this work has broad applicability to all recovery efforts throughout the northern hemisphere and general applicability to fisheries and aquatic restoration efforts throughout the world. The Pacific Northwest is now embroiled in a major public policy debate over the management and restoration of Pacific salmon. The outcome of the debate has the potential to affect major segments of the region's economy - river transportation, hydroelectric production, irrigated agriculture, urban growth, commercial and sport fisheries, etc. This debate, centered as it is on the salmon in all the rivers, has created a huge demand for information. The book will be a powerful addition to that debate. A 15 year collaboration by a diverse group of scientists working on the management and recovery of salmon, steelhead trout, and wildlife populations in the Pacific Northwest Includes over 200 figures, with four-color throughout the book Discusses complex issues such as habitat degradation, juvenile survival through the hydrosystem, the role of artificial production, and harvest reform

Author : Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station (Fort Collins, Colo.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CUB:U183029135563

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List of Publications - Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station by Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station (Fort Collins, Colo.) Pdf

Author : Robert G. H. Raynolds
Publisher : Geological Society of America
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780813700106

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Roaming the Rocky Mountains and Environs by Robert G. H. Raynolds Pdf

Prepared following the 2007 GSA Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado, these 15 guides illustrate the latest geological and archeological thinking on a variety of current research themes.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783375121754

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Papers Relative to the Exploration by Captain Palliser by Anonymous Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1859.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030812838

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Rocky Mountains Regional Plan Standards and Guidelines by Anonim Pdf

Author : Tiffany Fourment
Publisher : Long Term Ecological Research
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0981770010

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My Water Comes from the Rocky Mountains by Tiffany Fourment Pdf

Describes a journey through a watershed of snow that falls on the Rocky Mountain Continental Divide, is transformed into drinking water, and flows into rivers, and heads to the ocean.

Author : John Palliser
Publisher : London : G.E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Canada
ISBN : HARVARD:32044072258858

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Papers Relative to the Exploration by Captain Palliser of that Portion of British North America which Lies Between the Northern Branch of the River Saskatchewan and the Frontier of the United States; and Between the Red River and Rocky Mountains by John Palliser Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Forests and forestry
ISBN : UIUC:30112104058224

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Publications of the Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station 1980-1989 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Cumulative effects assessment (Environmental assessment)
ISBN : OSU:32435076389048

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CWE by Anonim Pdf