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| #367941 in Books | Harvard Univ. Press | 2006-02-28 | 2006-02-13 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.25 x.56 x6.13l,1.00 | File type: PDF | 320 pages | ||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| Narrow, but rich|By Stephen Lowe|If you read Barry Lopez River Notes, this book is not that. There is a subtext that comes through -- Leopold loved his work, the outdoors life of a river surveyor, and the rivers he studied -- but this is not a book of naturalist poetry. What it is, is the digest of a lifetime's study of the fluvial morphology of small rivers in America. Leopold||The strength of this book is the force of intellect and experience Leopold brings to his subject. His writing style is clear, his explanations lucid, the coverage comprehensive. This is an extremely personal, almost autobiographical bookâit is certainly not
With the Midwest under water, America had a chance to see how effectively it had “improved” its rivers. We’ve straightened and dredged them, revetted and rerouted them, made massive efforts to control them, yet our actions have been less than successful. Too often, physical changes made to a river conflict with natural processes, resulting in damage rather than alleviating it. Applying available knowledge on how rivers form and act could prevent such pr...
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