Download or read book Salton Sea Atlas written by Redlands Institute (Redlands, Calif.) and published by ESRI, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive scientific, historical, and physcial representation of the Salton Sea region utilizing the latest GIS technology

Download or read book The Salton Sea Region California written by John Stafford Brown and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Salton Sea written by Karl Anderson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Salton Sea was an accident of man created when heavy rainfall caused the Rio Colorado to swell and breach an Imperial Valley dike in 1905. For two years, water flowed into the Salton Sink and ancient Lake Cahuilla. Today, the sea is 227 feet below sea level, covers approximately 376 square miles, and is California's largest lake. During the early 1900s, it became an important bird and waterfowl refuge. When many species of fish were introduced, the Salton Sea also became popular for boating, fishing, hunting, and camping activities. Motels, yacht clubs, and marinas developed around Salton City and North Shore. During recent decades, the sea has become polluted from agricultural runoff, creating a doubtful future for the Salton Sea. However, it remains a sanctuary for anyone who enjoys bird watching, desert landscapes, or beautiful farmlands.

Download or read book Birds of the Salton Sea written by Michael Patten and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-08-19 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Salton Sea, California’s largest inland lake, supports a spectacular bird population that is among the most concentrated and most diverse in the world. Sadly, this crucial stopover along the Pacific Flyway for migratory and wintering shorebirds, landbirds, and waterfowl is dangerously close to collapse from several environmental threats. This book is the first thoroughly detailed book to describe the birds of Salton Sea, more than 450 species and subspecies in all. A major contribution to our knowledge about the birds of western North America, it will also be an important tool in the struggle to save this highly endangered area. Synthesizing data from many sources, including observations from their long-term work in the area, the authors’ species accounts discuss each bird’s abundance, seasonal status, movement patterns, biogeographic affinities, habitat associations, and more. This valuable reference also includes general information on the region’s fascinating history and biogeography, making it an unparalleled resource for the birding community, for wildlife managers, and for conservation biologists concerned with one of the most threatened ecosystems in western North America.

Download or read book Abandoned California written by Andy Willinger and published by America Through Time. This book was released on 2021-03-29 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Southern California, settlers have long ventured into the Mojave Desert, seduced by its capacious horizons and fragile beauty, only to be abased by the intense heat, bone-dry terrain and maddening isolation. Industry, intent on extracting the land of its essence, set up operations, then walked away when there was nothing left worth taking. Civilization has always pushed into the frontier, and quite often the frontier pushes back. Areas like the forsaken homesteads of Wonder Valley and the abandoned mining operations of Joshua Tree seem simultaneously depleted yet majestically audacious in their quiet desolation, juxtaposed against the breathtaking landscapes of the desert. Abandoned California: The Mojave Desert is a collection of photographs and writings by Andy Willinger that capture the majesty of these forsaken buildings, vehicles and artifacts of the Mojave's once vibrant past. These sites have become meaningful, unintended statements - not only as vibrant, ephemeral artworks of minimal beauty, but as testament to the impact on nature by humanity. Undaunted, the Mojave Desert continues to brashly flaunt its skill in overcoming man's attempts to conquer it.

Download or read book The Salton Sea written by George Kennan and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book ROUTES TO DESERT WATERING PLACES IN THE SALTON SEA REGION CALIFORNIA written by JOHN S. BROWN and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Salton Sea California written by United States. Federal Water Quality Administration. Southwest Regional Office and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Routes to Desert Watering Places in the Salton Sea Region California written by Geological Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Salton Sea Project California written by United States. Department of the Interior and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Salt Dreams written by William DeBuys and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Salton Sea, which has become a prophetic story of mounting environmental crises that impinge on the water supply of southern California's sixteen million people.

Download or read book Greetings from the Salton Sea written by Kim Stringfellow and published by Center for American Places. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Salton Sea is a man-made catastrophe, redolent with the smell of algae and decomposing fish. Nevertheless, the lake's vast, placid expanses continue to attract birdwatchers, tourists and artists. In Greetings from the Salton Sea, photographer Kim Stringfellow explores the history of California's largest lake from its disastrous beginnings—the "sea" was formed when Colorado River levees broke and spilled into a depression 280 feet below sea level—to its heyday as a desert paradise in the 1950s and its current state as an environmental battleground. Like the 400-plus species of birds that use the lake as a halfway point in their annual migration, developers flocked to the water too: they planted palm trees, built golf courses, and hired showstoppers such as the Beach Boys to perform at area resorts. These days, politicians seek to redirect the lake's only source of replenishment—agricultural runoff from surrounding farms—to water golf courses and green lawns elsewhere. Greetings from the Salton Sea's photographs capture the war among policymakers, environmentalists, developers, and the individuals still living along the lake's shores. As Stringfellow aptly documents, it is a war for water and, ultimately, for existence.

Download or read book Lost America The Abandoned Roadside West written by Troy Paiva and published by . This book was released on with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunningly photographed examination of the roadside icons that dot America's landscape. Lost America celebrates the boom-to-bust towns, aircraft bone yards, and filling stations of days past that were sacrificed at the altars of speed and technology and relegated to windswept desert plains and abandoned fields. The eye-catching and memorable photography is complemented with a succinct text history that details the rise and fall of each subject. The result is an impressive tour of an America still standing, yet largely forgotten.

Download or read book The Imperial Valley and the Salton Sink written by Harry Thomas Cory and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Settler Sea written by Traci Brynne Voyles and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-09 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An environmental history of Southern California’s Salton Sea, the state’s largest inland body of water, and the complex politics of environmental and human health in the West.

Download or read book Hydrologic Regimen of Salton Sea California written by Allen Grant Hely and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the variations in water level and water quality and their causes.

Download or read book No Reservations written by Anthony Bourdain and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-10-30 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The host of the Travel Channel series "No Reservations" provides a behind-the-scenes account of his global culinary adventures, from New Jersey to New Zealand, offering commentary on food in every corner of the globe.