Water-quality Assessment of the Central Columbia Plateau in Washington and Idaho
Author | : Joseph L. Jones |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Columbia Plateau |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Joseph L. Jones |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Columbia Plateau |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Alex K. Williamson |
Publisher | : Geological Survey (USGS) |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kathleen A. McCarthy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Hydrocarbons |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Andy Bookter |
Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 2010-11 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1437927661 |
This is a print-on-demand edition of a hard-to-find report.Production of high-quality water is a vitally important ecosystem service in the interior Columbia River basin (ICRB), and there is concern about the maintenance of this water supply for domestic, agricultural, industrial, recreational, and ecosystem uses. Water quantity and quality are an important component of habitat for depleted salmonid populations in the ICRB where a multi-agency effort is underway to restore salmon, trout, and char listed as threatened or endangered. An active program of salmonid restoration is ongoing in the Entiat River sub-basin, During spring 2007, the authors began testing a pilot water quality monitoring strategy using multi-parameter data-logging instruments. Illus.
Author | : Andrew P. Duffin |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2009-11-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0295989807 |
In Plowed Under, Andrew P. Duffin traces the transformation of the Palouse region of Washington and Idaho from land thought unusable and unproductive to a wealth-generating agricultural paradise, weighing the consequences of what this progress has wrought. During the twentieth century, the Palouse became synonymous with wheat, and the landscape was irrevocably altered. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, native vegetation is almost nonexistent, stream water is so dirty that it is often unfit for even livestock, and 94 percent of all land has been converted to agriculture. Commercial agriculture also created a less noticeable ecological change: soil erosion. While common to industrial agriculture nationwide, topsoil loss evoked different political and social reactions in the Palouse. Farmers all over the nation take pride in their freedom and independence, but in the Palouse, Duffin shows, this mentality - a remnant of an older agrarian past - has been taken to the extreme and is partly responsible for erosion problems that are among the worst in the nation. In the hope of charting a better, more sustainable future, Duffin argues for a candid look at the land, its people, their decisions, and the repercussions of those decisions. As he notes, the debate is not over whether to use the land, but over what that use will look like and its social and ecological results.