Water Quality of the Anacostia River, Washington, DC
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Water Resources |
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Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Science |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Water Resources |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Science |
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Author | : Krista Schlyer |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2018-11-26 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1623496926 |
Incorporating seven years of photography and research, Krista Schlyer portrays life along the Anacostia River, a Washington, DC, waterway rich in history and biodiversity that has nonetheless lingered for years in obscurity and neglect in our nation’s capital. River of Redemption offers an experience of the river that reveals its eons of natural history, centuries of destruction, and decades of restoration efforts. The story of the Anacostia echoes the story of rivers across America. Inspired by Aldo Leopold’s classic book, A Sand County Almanac, Krista Schlyer evokes a consciousness of time and place, taking readers through the seasons in the watershed as well as through the river’s complex history and ecology. As with rivers nationwide, the ways we’ve changed the Anacostia affect the people and wildlife that inhabit its shores, from the headwaters in Maryland, past its confluence with the Potomac River, and ultimately to the Chesapeake Bay. Centuries of abuse at the hands of people who have altered the landscape and mistreated the waterway have transformed it into a polluted, toxic soup unfit for swimming or fishing. The forgotten river is both a reminder of the worst humanity can do to the natural landscape and a wellspring of memory that offers a roadmap back to health and well-being for watershed residents, human and non-human alike. Blending stunning photography with informative and poignant text, River of Redemption offers the opportunity to reinvent our role in urban ecology and to redeem our relationship with this national river and watersheds nationwide.
Author | : John R. Wennersten |
Publisher | : Publishing Concepts (Baltimore, MD) |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
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An Unspoiled Waterway teeming with fish, its shores a virtual paradise, the Anacostia River figured prominently in the original plans for the new nation's elegant, bustling capital. Instead it quickly became a poster child for America's tragically neglected and abused urban waterways. With a clear eye and sharp pen, accomplished environmental historian John R. Wennersten takes an unsparing look at the historic forces and misguided policies that all but ruined a beautiful river while imposing the burden of pollution unequally on Washington's poorer citizens. Anacostia offers a much needed corrective to the uncritical assumptions of growth for its own sake and the cost it imposes on our waters, our natural resources, and the health of our citizenry. It also demonstrates how thoughtless destruction can be stopped, and rivers restored. Book jacket.
Author | : United States. Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 620 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Anacostia River (Md. and Washington, D.C.) |
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Author | : Geological Survey (U.S.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Geology |
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