A distillation of fourteen years of detailed observations, in this surprisingly engaging almanac, Spencer records a natural history teeming with fish, water, vegetation, birds, mammals, insects, reptiles and amphibians, seasonal changes, and interesting events and stories.

"We are matter and long to be received by an Earth that conceived us, which accepts and reconstitutes us, its children, each of us, without exception, every one. The journey is long, and then we start homeward, fathomless as to what home might make of us."--

A "novel of psychological suspense about the slipperiness of the truth and a family drowning in secrets"--A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long submerged. Left behind is a lonely fifteen-year-old girl. Parentless...

Two mice investigate why the stream dried up after a big storm.

The magnificent Colorado River, vast and unyielding, lets no man tame its fierce soul. But Isaac Beard, a man of courage and strength, dares to defy the mighty forces of nature to build a dynasty for his sons and their children in this sweeping hi.

How rivers have shaped American politics, economics, and society from the beginnings of the Republic to today.America has more than 250,000 rivers, coursing over more than 3 million miles, connecting the disparate regions of the United States. On a map they can look like the veins, arteries, and capillaries of a continent-wide circulatory system, and in a way they are. Over the course of this nations history rivers have served as integral trade routes,...

"The Aquatic Ecosystems series explores how different bodies of water shape their environments and support the plants and animals that are reliant on them"--

This policy addresses the Water Quality Control Commission's methodology and rationale for developing water temperature criteria and standards for the protection of aquatic life in Colorado's surface waters. Colorado's temperature criteria are in the process of being revised and this policy records the incremental progress towards final criteria.

Gazing at the river outside her window, a child imagines all the places the river could take her from the city all the way to the ocean, and dreams of all that she would see.