Nature of Southwestern Colorado: Recognizing Human Legacies and Restoring Natural Places

by Deborah D. Paulson and William L. Baker

Book Overview

Travelers pass through one jaw-dropping landscape after another where the snowy San Juan Mountains meet the canyon and mesa country of the Colorado Plateau in southwestern Colorado. Yet this small but remarkably varied region also plainly reveals a history of hard use, including logging scars, mine-polluted rivers, and overgrazed grasslands and forests.

In "The Nature of Southwestern Colorado," Deborah D. Paulson and William L. Baker guide readers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087081849X
• ISBN13: 9780870818493
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: University Press of Colorado
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"