Download or read book Notes on Red River Floods with Particular Reference to the Flood of 1950 written by Clark, Robert H and published by C.E. Leech, King's Printer for Manitoba. This book was released on 1950 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Geomorphic Approaches to Integrated Floodplain Management of Lowland Fluvial Systems in North America and Europe written by Paul F. Hudson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-29 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a comprehensive perspective on geomorphic approaches to management of lowland alluvial rivers in North America and Europe. Many lowland rivers have been heavily managed for flood control and navigation for decades or centuries, resulting in engineered channels and embanked floodplains with substantially altered sediment loads and geomorphic processes. Over the past decade, floodplain management of many lowland rivers has taken on new importance because of concerns about the potential for global environmental change to alter floodplain processes, necessitating revised management strategies that minimize flood risk while enhancing environmental attributes of floodplains influenced by local embankments and upstream dams. Recognition of the failure of old perspectives on river management and the need to enhance environmental sustainability has stimulated a new approach to river management. The manner that river restoration and integrated management are implemented, however, requires a case study approach that takes into account the impact of historic human impacts to the system, especially engineering. The river basins examined in this volume provide a representative coverage of the drainage of North America and Europe, taking into account a range of climatic and physiographic provinces. They include the 1) Sacramento (California, USA), 2) San Joaquin (California), 3) Missouri (Missouri, USA), 4) Red (Manitoba, Canada and Minnesota, USA), 5) Mississippi (Louisiana, USA), 6) Kissimmee (Florida, USA), 7) Ebro (Spain), 8) Rhone (France), 9) Rhine (Netherlands), 10) Danube (Romania), and 11) Volga (Russian Federation) Rivers. The case studies covered in these chapters span a range of fluvial modes of adjustment, including sediment, channel, hydrologic regime, floodplains, as well as ecosystem and environmental associations.
Download or read book Wet Prairie written by Shannon Stunden Bower and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-06-29 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Canadian prairies are often envisioned as dry, windswept fields; however, much of southern Manitoba is not arid plain but wet prairie, poorly drained land subject to frequent flooding. Shannon Stunden Bower brings to light the complexities of surface-water management in Manitoba, from early artificial drainage efforts to late-twentieth-century attempts at watershed management. She engages scholarship on the state, liberalism, and bioregionalism in order to probe the connections between human and environmental change in the wet prairie. This account of an overlooked aspect of the region’s environmental history reveals how the biophysical nature of southern Manitoba has been an important factor in the formation of Manitoba society and the provincial state.
Download or read book Landscapes and Landforms of Western Canada written by Olav Slaymaker and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the only book to focus on the geomorphological landscapes of Canada West. It outlines the little-appreciated diversity of Canada’s landscapes, and the nature of the geomorphological landscape, which deserves wider publicity. Three of the most important geomorphological facts related to Canada are that 90% of its total area emerged from ice-sheet cover relatively recently, from a geological perspective; permafrost underlies 50% of its landmass and the country enjoys the benefits of having three oceans as its borders: the Arctic, Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Canada West is a land of extreme contrasts — from the rugged Cordillera to the wide open spaces of the Prairies; from the humid west-coast forests to the semi-desert in the interior of British Columbia and from the vast Mackenzie river system of the to small, steep, cascading streams on Vancouver Island. The thickest Canadian permafrost is found in the Yukon and extensive areas of the Cordillera are underlain by sporadic permafrost side-by-side with the never-glaciated plateaus of the Yukon. One of the curiosities of Canada West is the presence of volcanic landforms, extruded through the ice cover of the late Pleistocene and Holocene epochs, which have also left a strong imprint on the landscape. The Mackenzie and Fraser deltas provide the contrast of large river deltas, debouching respectively into the Arctic and Pacific oceans.
Download or read book The Raging Red written by Douglas Ramsey and published by . This book was released on 1995-12-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Harm s Way written by Anthony W. Rasporich and published by University of Calgary Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories told in this collection, though tragic for many, illustrate the steadfast determination and courage of people in the face of misfortune and extreme distress. From the lesser-known weed outbreaks and tornadoes to the world-wide influenza outbreak in 1918 that devastated many Calgary families, these stories focus on the human side of these disasters. It may be a heroic individual or the collective response of a community, but what is truly remarkable in these stories is the human response to the world being turned upside down by famine and disease, by flood, fire, or rock slide, by wind and cold, by dynamite or gas explosions, or even by the seemingly mundane threat of weeds upon crops. It is the resolution to continue to fight and the persistence of the human spirit and its adaptability to challenges that is the true story of a century of development in western Canada
Download or read book The Red River Flood of 1950 written by William D. Hurst and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flooding of the Red River of the North and Its Tributaries written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Oversight and Review and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The 1950 Red River Flood written by and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eleven page daily summary by W. D. Hurst of the progress and devastation of the Red River flood from April 1 to June 15, 1950. Includes river levels in Fargo, Grand Forks, Emerson and Winnipeg, daily weather conditions and activity reports.
Download or read book Report of Activities written by Manitoba. Geological Services Branch and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Floods of the Red River Valley written by Elwyn Francis Chandler and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Notes on Hydrologic Activities written by United States. Inter-agency Committee on Water Resources and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Red River Flood of 1950 written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Summary of Floods in the United States During 1950 written by and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flooding Problems Red River of the North written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Investigations and Review and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report written by Manitoba. Department of Mines and Natural Resources and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Changes in Flood Response of the Red River of the North Basin North Dakota Minnesota written by Jeffrey E. Miller and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
