Color Country is a traveler's complete guide to exploring and understanding the spectacular, multihued landscapes of the Colorado Plateau. Found insideUnlike any other book published recently about the Plateau, this book not only acts as a source of great information and imagery, but as a practical guide and a true celebration of one of America’s most beautiful and endangered lands. This volume presents 23 original articles drawn from more than 100 research projects presented at the Sixth Biennial Conference of Research on the Colorado Plateau. This guide book is designed for experienced desert trekkers seeking a thorough-hiking experience on a well-tested route. Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. An easy-to-read geology tutorial of the of the eastern Colorado Plateau, this book will answer all of your questions about how this stunning region was formed. Includes detailed road logs. This informative and easy-to-use guide is beautifully produced and makes a terrific gift for an outdoor enthusiast, visitor, or new neighbor in Arizona. This new edition features 19 all-new hikes. With this guide in hand, you will gain a sympathetic understanding of the desert ecosystems that make up the region. This transdisciplinary book explores the natural and built environment of this desert region and introduces development tools for shaping its future in a more sustainable way. Designed to educate and entertain, this charming tale of Michael, Emily, and their family explores the scat and tracks of the Colorado Plateau that covers parts of Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico.Little Michael is terrified of wild ... Discusses the natural history, geography, and geology of canyons, and offers advice on hiking, rappelling, and rafting, as well as, how to train for an expedition Take your fifth graders on a trip, albeit only virtually, across the western states of America. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR. "But it is precisely this - nothing - that writer Brooke Williams and photographer Chris Noble find captivating about Escalante. Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau is the first book to showcase Blakey's remarkable work. His maps are accompanied by text by Wayne Ranney, geologist and award-winning author of Carving Grand Canyon. This guide provides information on the best ascents and bouldering problems at each area, along with protection information and gear recommendations that will keep you heading to the top. •17 all-new hikes •More than half the color photos are new •All hikes completely reviewed and re-checked 100 Classic Hikes: Arizona, 4th Edition, is the newest update in the popular Classic Hikes series of full-color coffee-table ... The Plateau of Doubt details a 725 mile, two-season trek tracing the Hayduke Trail across the Colorado Plateau. Each year, millions tour the exquisite plateau that joins Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado. Includes breathtaking photos, quotes from renowned authors, and short essays. This volume, the fifth from the University of Arizona Press and the tenth overall, focuses on adaptation of resource management and conservation to climate change and water scarcity, protecting biodiversity through restructured energy ... Elias describes how the increased precipitation and cooler temperatures of the Pleistocene affected the desert environment. He also traces the impact of ancient cultures on the landscape, from the earliest inhabitants to the Anasazi. This volume focuses on the integration of science into resource management issues, summarizes what criteria make a successful collaborative effort, outlines land management concerns about drought, provides summaries of current biological, ... Found inside"A raw and honest journey of addiction, love, trauma, and redemption—grounded in a deep love of place and all things mustang." —LAURA PRITCHETT, author of Stars Go Blue Kathryn Wilder's powerful story of grief, motherhood, and return to ... Plant are named with both common and scientific names. Photo notes provide useful information to the striking images in the book. "The six assessments compiled in this study evaluated 238 million acres across 11 states and two countries. A geological exploration of the high rock plains of Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New mexico offers a unique study of billion-year-old rock formations, and the culture of the ancient people who lived there What happens when a ski-bumming, river-running, tree-hugging, travel-loving guy settles down and has kids? He becomes a monkey wrench dad! Ten authors present an overview of the diverse natural environments in Arizona, including information on the state's climate, geology, soil and water resources, flora and fauna, and human impacts on the fragile ecosystems. Broken into three subsections, this volume addresses conservation biology, biophysical resources, and inventory and monitoring concerns. This book will be of interest to researchers and scholars of physical geography, geomorphology, environmental sciences, and earth sciences. He spent the next fifty years painting the desert which he believed saved him from certain death.This book contains 23 color images of Swinnerton's paintings and 12 color images of the original art work for his beloved Canyon Kiddies ... This is an evocative portrait of the marvelous and secret places of the desert's unspoiled wilderness. Describes important geological formations in sixteen national parks, discusses contintental drift, earthquakes, volcanic activity and erosion Written with the general reader in mind, this is the updated edition of the classic on the geology of the red rock and canyon country of the Fours Corners region of Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico. Throughout this volume, the contributors present solutions to help promote ecological balance between nature and the built environment in the American Southwest—and offer valuable insights for other ecologically fragile regions around the ... In this collection of essays, fire historian Stephen J. Pyne explains the relevance of the Interior West to the national fire scene. Focusing on the integration of science into resource management issues over the Colorado Plateau, this volume includes contributions from dozens of leading scholars of the region. " ... centers at the well known Four Corners where Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico meet ... corresponds closely with ... the Colorado Plateau but goes beyond--it shares a part of the Great American Desert, the Southwest and even the ... In all, this is an informative and visually stunning compilation of Art in Utah, detailing its profound influence on western and American culture. This advanced-level book provides a benchmark for the current state of science, and is written by an international team of authors who are acknowledged experts in their fields. Written in the tradition of Edward Abbey and Terry Tempest Williams, this collection of essays inspired by a year spent hiking 120 desert canyons explores the "sacred geography" of the West, discussing a wide range of issues, from bears to ... Discusses birds that live in a variety of deserts all over the world, including subtropical deserts, cool-coastal deserts, and polar deserts. 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