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Great Basin National Park : a guide to the park and surrounding area /

Great Basin National Park is in large part a high-alpine park, but it sits in one of America's driest, least populated, and most isolated deserts. That contrast is one facet of the diversity that characterizes this region. Within and outside the park are phenomenal landscape features, biotic wo...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Baker, Gretchen M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Logan, UT : Utah State University Press, Ã2012.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Great Basin National Park is in large part a high-alpine park, but it sits in one of America's driest, least populated, and most isolated deserts. That contrast is one facet of the diversity that characterizes this region. Within and outside the park are phenomenal landscape features, biotic wonders, unique environments, varied historic sites, and the local colors of isolated towns and ranches. Vast Snake and Spring Valleys, bracketing the national park, are also subjects of one of the West's most divisive environment contests, over what on the surface seems most absent but undergroun.
Item Description:Title from PDF title page (viewed on Apr. 11, 2013).
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780874218411
0874218411
9780874218961
0874218969