04136cam a2200769 4500 522967693 TxAuBib 20210904120000.0 ||||||s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780807004722 0807004723 B004EPZ6BA Amazon b5251b5f-1cda-4796-9aaa-a2b0acac4d17 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 205093 205093 205093 480847 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Hawley, Steven. Recovering a Lost River [Libby] : Removing Dams, Rewilding Salmon, Revitalizing Communities. Beacon Press, 2011. Animals. politics. Nature. wilderness. Environmental science. Natural history. Science. ocean animals. earth. Wildlife conservation. Outdoors. Fish. Environment. Wildlife. Ocean. Oceanography. Sustainability. Sustainable Living. environmental ethics. animal books. ocean waves. political books. science books. nature books. earth day books. gifts for nature lovers. science book. environmental books. gifts for animal lovers. science books for adults. science gifts. ocean book. animal lover gifts. nature lover gifts. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 318kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Nature. Science. Nonfiction. HTML:<p><b>A powerful argument for why dam removal makes good scientific, economic, and environmental sense--and requires our urgent attention</b><br /> <br /> The Snake River, flowing through the Northwest, was once one of the world's greatest salmon rivers. As recently as a hundred years ago, it retained some of its historic bounty with seven million fish coming home to spawn there. Now, due to damming for hydroelectricity over the past fifty years, the salmon population has dropped close to extinction. Efforts at salmon recovery, through fish ladders, hatcheries, and even trucking them over the dams, have failed.<br /> <br /> Hawley argues that the solution for the Snake River lies in dam removal, pitting the power authority and Army Corps of Engineers against a collection of conservationists, farmers, commercial and recreational fishermen, and the Nez Perce tribe. He also demonstrates the interconnectedness of the river's health to Orca whales in Puget Sound, local economies, fresh water rights, and energy independence.<br /> <br /> This regional battle has garnered national interest, and is part of a widespread river-restoration movement that stretches from Maine's Kennebec to California's Klamath. In one instance, Butte Creek salmon rebounded from a paltry fourteen fish to twenty thousand within just a few years of rewilding their river, showing the incredible resiliency of nature when given the slightest chance. In this timely book, Hawley shows how river restoration, with dam removal as its centerpiece, is not only virtuous ecological practice, but a growing social and economic enterprise.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 13:21:58. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=B5251B5F-1CDA-4796-9AAA-A2B0ACAC4D17&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=B5251B5F-1CDA-4796-9AAA-A2B0ACAC4D17&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=B5251B5F-1CDA-4796-9AAA-A2B0ACAC4D17&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)