The Riverkeeper S Guide To The Chattahoochee

Author : Fred Brown,Sherri M. L. Smith,Richard Stenger
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1580720005

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The Riverkeeper's Guide to the Chattahoochee by Fred Brown,Sherri M. L. Smith,Richard Stenger Pdf

The Chattahoochee is a prototypical American river-from its headwaters in the Blue Ridge Mountains to where it flows into Apalachicola Bay, one of the most productive estuaries in North America. This entertaining, fact-filled guide covers the Chattahoochee's entire 500 mile course and 8,000 square mile watershed. The guide divides the river into ten sections, each of which includes a brief natural history and information on: camping, hiking, fishing, boating, and other recreational pursuits bodies of water that feed into the river cities and towns with river frontage manmade structures such as bridges, dams, and historic ruins environmental threats and preservation efforts Entertaining sidebars throughout highlight the people, history, culture, wildlife, and geography of the entire river valley. Understand the "Hooch," say those dedicated to its conservation, and you will know more about all of our country's waterways. This guide is the place to begin.

Author : Fred Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:489302106

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The Riverkeeper's Guide to the Chattahoochee River by Fred Brown Pdf

Author : Joe Cook
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780820346793

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Chattahoochee River User's Guide by Joe Cook Pdf

This useful guide traces the Chattahoochee's 430-mile course through 200 color photographs, 32 maps, and detailed practical information about public access points, potential hazards, and camping facilities.

Author : Sally Sierer Bethea
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780820364346

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Keeping the Chattahoochee by Sally Sierer Bethea Pdf

Sally Sierer Bethea was one of the first women in America to become a "riverkeeper"-a vocal defender of a specific waterway who holds polluters accountable. In Keeping the Chattahoochee, she tells stories that range from joyous and funny to frustrating-even alarming-to illustrate what it takes to save an endangered river. Her tales are triggered by the regular walks she takes through a forest to the Chattahoochee over the course of a year, finding solace and kinship in nature. For two decades, Bethea worked to restore the neglected Chattahoochee, which provides drinking water and recreation to millions of people, habitat for wildlife, and water for industries and farms as it cuts through the heart of the Deep South. Pairing natural and political history with reflective writing, she draws readers into her watershed and her memories. Bethea's passion for the natural world-and for defending it with a strong, informed voice animates this instructive memoir. Offering lessons on how to fight for our fundamental right to clean water, Bethea and her colleagues take on powerful corporate and government polluters. They strengthen environmental policies and educate children, reviving the great river from a century of misuse.

Author : Joel P. Smith
Publisher : NewSouth Books
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781603060684

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Candid Comments by Joel P. Smith Pdf

For almost fifty years, Joel P. Smith served as editor and publisher of the Eufaula Tribune, the newspaper of record in Eufaula in southeast Alabama. For much of that time, week after week, he wrote his "Candid Comments" column, which traced the often-intersecting history of Eufaula and Smith's own life. In the selections from "Candid Comments" collected in this volume, Smith ranges from Eufaula's "top ten characters" to the history of the Chattahoochee River, from the Tribune's initial support of Governor George Wallace until it ceased to endorse him, and from marriage and fatherhood to press junkets in Egypt and Cuba.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556034733956

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Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), General Mangement Plan by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stacy S. Kowtko
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1039 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780313350894

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America's Natural Places [5 volumes] by Stacy S. Kowtko Pdf

This timely set invites readers to celebrate the most beautiful and environmentally important places in the United States. Each of the United States boasts numerous special places that are significant for their biodiversity, ecology, habitats for rare and endangered species, or other qualities that make them unique and worthy of preservation. These sites range from nature preserves to state and national parks, wildlife areas, ecosystems that provide a home to diverse flora and fauna, and even scenic vistas. The five volumes of America's Natural Places examine over 200 of the most spectacular and important of these places, with each entry describing the importance of the area, the flora and fauna that it supports, threats to the survival of the region, and what is being done to protect it. Organized by state within regional volumes, this encyclopedia both informs the reader about the wide variety of natural areas across the country and identifies places nearby that demonstrate that preserving such treasurers is of immediate importance to every U.S. citizen.

Author : MARCUS WOOLF
Publisher : Wilderness Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780899977874

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Afoot and Afield: Atlanta by MARCUS WOOLF Pdf

This book showcases more than 100 great hikes within a 2-hour drive of Atlanta.

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410358622

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A Study Guide for Sidney Lanier's "Song of the Chattahoochee" by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

A Study Guide for Sidney Lanier's "Song of the Chattahoochee," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.

Author : H. Thomas Foster II
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000545258

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Apalachicola by H. Thomas Foster II Pdf

This book is a synthesis of research spanning archaeology, geology, geography, history, ecology, and ethnography. It follows the history of the Apalachicola people who contributed to the culture that was later called the Creek Indians in the Southeastern United States. Apalachicola is the origin story of the Creek Indians and how they adapted to a changing environment and shows that specific institutions, subsistence strategies, and social organizations developed as a risk management strategy and a form of resilience. It is unique in its comprehensive and long-term study of a community. It identifies and demonstrates a new way of understanding the development of political institutions and regime change. Incorporating the role of social groups that are under discussed by archaeological studies, the book offers a new and novel understanding of the development of complex societies in the Southeastern United States. It also includes a holistic view of the entire social and economic organizations rather than just an aspect of the economy or politics and shows how this culture developed a society that dealt with an unpredictable environment by distributing risks, knowledge, and authority throughout the society. The social and political organization of these Native American peoples was adapted to a particular environment that was altered when Europeans immigrated to the Americas. The book is relevant to scholars interested in Southeastern North American archaeology and history, ecological resilience, political change, colonialism, gender studies, ecology, and more.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0820329290

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Peachtree Creek by Anonim Pdf

In 1990 David Kaufman decided to explore Peachtree Creek from its headwaters to its confluence with the Chattahoochee River. For thirteen years he paddled the creek, photographed it, and researched its history as the Atlanta area's major watershed. The result is Peachtree Creek, a compelling mix of urban travelogue, local history, and call for conservation. Historical images and Kaufman's evocative color photographs help capture the creek's many faces, past and present. Most Atlantans only glimpse Peachtree Creek briefly, as they pass over it on their daily commute, if at all. Looking down on the creek from Piedmont or Peachtree Roads, few contemplate how it courses through the city, where it originates and flows to. Fewer still-many fewer-would ever consider paddling down it, with its pollution and flash floods. Through his expeditions down Peachtree Creek and its five tributaries--North Fork, South Fork, Clear Creek, Nancy Creek, and Tanyard Creek--Kaufman takes readers through such places as Piedmont and Chastain Parks, which, aside from the polluted water, are beautiful, even bucolic. Other stretches of creek, like those draining Midtown and Atlantic Station, are channeled into massive culverts and choked with discarded waste from the city. One day, floating past the Bobby Jones Golf Course, he surprises a golfer searching for his stray ball along the creek bank; another he spends talking to a homeless man living under a bridge near Buckhead. Kaufman reveals fascinating aspects of Atlanta by examining how Peachtree Creek shaped and was shaped by the history of the area. Street names like Moore's Mill Road and Howell Mill Road take on new meaning. He explains the dynamics of water run off that cause the creek to go from a trickle to a torrent in a matter of hours. Kaufman asks how a waterway that was once people's source of water, power, and livelihood became, at its worst, an open sewer and flooding hazard. Portraying some of our worst mishandling of the environment, Kaufman suggests ways to a more sustainable stewardship of Peachtree Creek.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University Alabama Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Photography
ISBN : IND:30000067916886

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A Chattahoochee Album by Anonim Pdf

From the blending of diverse peoples, a singular culture has developed in the lower Chattahoochee River Valley that persists to the present day-diverse, robust, and tradition proud. Published by the Historic Chattahoochee Commission, A Chattahoochee Album is Fred Fussell's personal tribute to the region, lovingly compiled to honor the folklife and traditions of an enduring place and its people.

Author : Nancy Marie White
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780817361303

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Apalachicola Valley Archaeology by Nancy Marie White Pdf

"Apalachicola Valley Archaeology is a major holistic synthesis of the archaeological record and what is known or speculated about the ancient Apalachicola and lower Chattahoochee Valley region of northwest Florida, southeast Alabama, and southwest Georgia. Volume 1 coverage spans from the time of the first human settlement, around 14,000 years ago, to the Middle Woodland period, ending about AD 700. Author Nancy Marie White had devoted her career to this archaeologically neglected region, and she notes that it is environmentally and culturally different from better-known regions nearby. Early chapters relate the individual ecosystems and the types of typical and unusual material culture, including stone, ceramic, bone, shell, soils, and plants. Other chapters are devoted to the archaeological Paleoindian, Archaic, Woodland periods. Topics include migration/settlement, sites, artifacts and material culture, subsistence and lifeways, culture and society, economics, warfare, and rituals. White's prodigious work reveals that Paleoindian habitation was more extensive than once assumed. Archaic sites were widespread, and those societies persisted through the first global warming when the Ice Age ended. Besides new stone technologies, pottery appeared in the Late Archaic period. Extensive inland and coastal settlement is documented. Development of elaborate religious or ritual systems is suggested by Early Woodland times when the first burial mounds appear. Succeeding Middle Woodland societies expanded this mortuary ceremony in about forty mounds. In the Middle Woodland, the complex pottery of the concurrent Swift Creek and the early Weeden Island ceramic series as well as the imported exotic objects show an increased fascination with the ornate and unusual. Native American lifeways continued with gathering-fishing-hunting subsistence systems similar to those of their ancestors. The usefulness of the information to modern society to understand human impacts on environments and vice versa caps the volume"--

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Water quality
ISBN : CORNELL:31924101595704

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Stormwater by Anonim Pdf

Author : Donald Pfitzer,Jimmy Jacobs
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781493011094

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Hiking Georgia by Donald Pfitzer,Jimmy Jacobs Pdf

The 4th edition of Hiking Georgia takes up where the last edition left off: poised to start hikers on some of the finest trekking adventures the Peach State has to offer. Whether the trails are in the high mountains of north Georgia, on coastal barrier islands or in fertile Piedmont river valleys, the flora, fauna and scenery can be spectacular. The information in all 72 chapters is updated, incorporating a total of 15 new trails. The hike descriptions offer directions, as well as GPS-tracked color trail maps and elevation charts to make the journey easier and more enjoyable. To whet your appetite for the adventures, all new color images offer glimpses of what lies around many of the bends in the paths.