Meander Scars : Reflections on Healing the Willamette River /

This book of personal stories recounts a forgotten Oregon river, the Willamette, as it was before white settlement. Once a rich network of channels and sloughs, the Willamette of the twenty-first century bears the scars of development and degradation. Yet, through canoe trips and intimate exploratio...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Metzger, Abby P.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Corvallis : Oregon State University Press, [2013]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Metzger, Abby P.
Metzger, Abby P. > Travel > Oregon > Willamette River.
Travel.
Stream ecology.
Stream conservation.
Restoration ecology.
Environmental degradation.
Ecology.
Rehabilitation (Écologie) > Oregon > Willamette (Riviere)
Cours d'eau > Conservation > Oregon > Willamette (Riviere)
Environnement > Degradation > Oregon > Willamette (Riviere)
Restoration ecology > Oregon > Willamette River.
Stream ecology > Oregon > Willamette River.
Stream conservation > Oregon > Willamette River.
Environmental degradation > Oregon > Willamette River.
Oregon > Willamette River.
Willamette (Or. : Riviere) > Histoire.
Willamette (Or. : Riviere) > Descriptions et voyages.
Willamette (Or. : Riviere) > Conditions environnementales.
Willamette River (Or.) > History.
Willamette River (Or.) > Description and travel.
Willamette River (Or.) > Environmental conditions.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • The first sighting
  • Blinking island (the meaning of change)
  • Shards of beauty in a fragmented landscape
  • The many truths a river tells
  • Dread
  • Memory
  • Story mapping
  • The grief and the gladness
  • Trees, weeds, and rivers : the work of restoration
  • The daily braid
  • Meander scars
  • Resources.

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