The River Returns: An Environmental History of the Bow
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Alberta's iconic river has been dammed and plumbed, made to spin hydro-electric turbines, and used to cleanse Calgary. Artificial lakes in the mountains rearrange its flow; downstream weirs and ditches divert it to irrigate the parched prairie. Far from being wild, the Bow is now very much a human product: its fish are as manufactured as its altered flow, changed water quality, and newly stabilized and forested banks. The River Returns brings the...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0773535845
ISBN13:9780773535848
Release Date:October 2009
Publisher:McGill-Queen's University Press
Length:488 Pages
Weight:2.60 lbs.
Dimensions:1.5" x 6.9" x 9.8"
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