The Salton Sea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Salton Sea write by Karl Anderson. This book was released on 2011. The Salton Sea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Birds of the Salton Sea
Birds of the Salton Sea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Birds of the Salton Sea write by Michael Patten. This book was released on 2003-08-19. Birds of the Salton Sea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Salton Sea
Salton Sea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Salton Sea write by George McCormick. This book was released on 2012. Salton Sea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fiction. "These are stories of the American West, a 21st century West where everyone works a shit job; whose denizens know all too well that the dreams they've dreamt of that place are just that, dreams; where the natural world has all but disappeared often because we refuse to look up and see it. Like the inland sea that gives this collection its name, whose algae blooms 'cumulous, bloody forms just under the surface, ' there is beauty in their ruin." Bayard Godsave "George McCormick's writing as clear and direct as a fast-moving river, but the lives of his characters never run straight. As his narrator tells us, 'In the West what we love most are lies. What we love are images of a stampede, of animals running; of what we think are the right stories of stealing away.' Don't let these marvelous stories slip past you." Jesse Lee Kercheval"
Greetings from the Salton Sea
Greetings from the Salton Sea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Greetings from the Salton Sea write by Kim Stringfellow. This book was released on 2011. Greetings from the Salton Sea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Salton Sea
The Salton Sea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Salton Sea write by George Kennan. This book was released on 1917. The Salton Sea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
