Download or read book An Introduction to the Environmental Literature of the Mississippi Deltaic Plain Region written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proceedings written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Marsh Zones and Vegetative Types in the Louisiana Coastal Marshes written by Robert Henry Chabreck and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Proceedings Conference Chairman and Editor Richard J Russell written by Richard Joel Russell and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Second Coastal Geography Conference written by Richard J. Russell and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Louisiana Coastal Marsh Ecology written by Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College. Coastal Studies Institute and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: Vegetation of the drainage basin of Grand Bayou Blue Evaluation of biological conditions for winter months Chemical and bacteriological survey Chemical investigations from four selected stations Appendix: Evaluation of procedures employed in collecting chemical data Bacteriological investigations Chemical survey of waters and muds Ecological studies in Timbalier Bay.

Download or read book Faculty Publications and Research in Progress written by Tulane University and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Barrow Family and the Barataria and Lafourche Canal written by Thomas Becnel and published by . This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Robert Ruffin Barrow moved from North Carolina to Louisiana in the early 1800's, intent on making his fortune in cotton and sugar." "Thomas A. Becnel relates the efforts of Robert Ruffin Barrow and his son, Robert Jr., to establish the Barataria and Lafourche Canal as an important shipping link between New Orleans on the Mississippi River and the Attakapas District of Bayou Teche to the west." "In addition to relating the foresight, determination, and questionable business practices of Robert Barrow and his son, this study adds significantly to the field of transportation history. It provides an opportunity to compare Louisiana's canal ventures with those of other states and reveals the extent of sugar and cotton planters' involvement in public transportation." -- cover Includes surnames and vital statistics of Barrow, Hunley, Slatter, and Tennant, as well as many other contemporaries.

Download or read book The Control of Nature written by John McPhee and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While John McPhee was working on his previous book, Rising from the Plains, he happened to walk by the engineering building at the University of Wyoming, where words etched in limestone said: "Strive on--the control of Nature is won, not given." In the morning sunlight, that central phrase--"the control of nature"--seemed to sparkle with unintended ambiguity. Bilateral, symmetrical, it could with equal speed travel in opposite directions. For some years, he had been planning a book about places in the world where people have been engaged in all-out battles with nature, about (in the words of the book itself) "any struggle against natural forces--heroic or venal, rash or well advised--when human beings conscript themselves to fight against the earth, to take what is not given, to rout the destroying enemy, to surround the base of Mt. Olympus demanding and expecting the surrender of the gods." His interest had first been sparked when he went into the Atchafalaya--the largest river swamp in North America--and had learned that virtually all of its waters were metered and rationed by a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' project called Old River Control. In the natural cycles of the Mississippi's deltaic plain, the time had come for the Mississippi to change course, to shift its mouth more than a hundred miles and go down the Atchafalaya, one of its distributary branches. The United States could not afford that--for New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and all the industries that lie between would be cut off from river commerce with the rest of the nation. At a place called Old River, the Corps therefore had built a great fortress--part dam, part valve--to restrain the flow of the Atchafalaya and compel the Mississippi to stay where it is. In Iceland, in 1973, an island split open without warning and huge volumes of lava began moving in the direction of a harbor scarcely half a mile away. It was not only Iceland's premier fishing port (accounting for a large percentage of Iceland's export economy) but it was also the only harbor along the nation's southern coast. As the lava threatened to fill the harbor and wipe it out, a physicist named Thorbjorn Sigurgeirsson suggested a way to fight against the flowing red rock--initiating an all-out endeavor unique in human history. On the big island of Hawaii, one of the world's two must eruptive hot spots, people are not unmindful of the Icelandic example. McPhee went to Hawaii to talk with them and to walk beside the edges of a molten lake and incandescent rivers. Some of the more expensive real estate in Los Angeles is up against mountains that are rising and disintegrating as rapidly as any in the world. After a complex coincidence of natural events, boulders will flow out of these mountains like fish eggs, mixed with mud, sand, and smaller rocks in a cascading mass known as debris flow. Plucking up trees and cars, bursting through doors and windows, filling up houses to their eaves, debris flows threaten the lives of people living in and near Los Angeles' famous canyons. At extraordinary expense the city has built a hundred and fifty stadium-like basins in a daring effort to catch the debris. Taking us deep into these contested territories, McPhee details the strategies and tactics through which people attempt to control nature. Most striking in his vivid depiction of the main contestants: nature in complex and awesome guises, and those who would attempt to wrest control from her--stubborn, often ingenious, and always arresting characters.

Download or read book Rise of the Cajun Mariners written by Woody Falgoux and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of four families of Cajun boatmen and their rise from trappers and shrimpers to mega-millionaires. Rise of the Cajun Mariners documents an untold piece of American history—the beginnings of what is now the global, multibillion-dollar marine oil and gas industry. In addition, it gives an insightful insider account of one of America’s only truly distinctive cultures—the Cajuns. The book tells the story through the Cajun boatmen who drive the boats that supply and move the men who work the offshore platforms. The book follows four of these French-speaking trailblazers as they scrape to buy and build their first boats and struggle toward success. Their success stories will appeal to any believer in the American dream. But it is also a candid account of a wild time in a rough, vital business. Most of the characters are as flawed as they are dynamic. While they are master seamen, they lead a lifestyle that, for many of them, is as much about drinking and whoring as it is about seamanship and deal-making. The seedy side of their business adds complexity to their story and makes the tale especially human. Rise of the Cajun Mariners is a fast-paced tale about the rapid evolution of a worldwide industry, the modernization of a culture, and the deliverance of four fascinating families.

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Download or read book Cities of the Future written by Vladimir Novotny and published by IWA Publishing. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is developed from and includes the presentations of leading international experts and scholars in the 12-14 July, 2006 Wingspread Workshop. With urban waters as a focal point, this book will explore the links between urban water quality and hydrology, and the broader concepts of green cities and smart growth. It also addresses legal and social barriers to urban ecological sustainability and proposes practical ways to overcome those barriers. Cities of the Future features chapters containing visionary concepts on how to ensure that cities and their water resources become ecologically sustainable and are able to provide clean water for all beneficial uses. The book links North American and Worldwide experience and approaches. The book is primarily a professional reference aimed at a wide interdisciplinary audience, including universities, consultants, environmental advocacy groups and legal environmental professionals.

Download or read book Designing the Bayous written by Martin Reuss and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: :This history of the Atchafalaya Basin is an account of the transformation of an area that has endured perhaps more human manipulation than any other natural environment in the nation.

Download or read book Federal Water Project Recreation Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: