"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 collection of fiction and non-fiction. In A Streetlamp in the Netherlands, a woman causes a distraction which leads to an accident, The King of Epoxy is a satire on archeology, and Another Brutal Indian Attack is on berry-picking. By the author of The Brothers K.

"Plugged by no fewer than twenty-five dams, the Colorado is the world's most regulated river, providing most of the water supply of Las Vegas, Tucson, and San Diego, and much of the power and water of Los Angeles and Phoenix, cities that are home to morethan 25 million people. If it ceased flowing, the water held in its reservoirs might hold out for three to four years, but after that it would be necessary to abandon most of southern California and...

Arkansas Headwaters Recreation Area [AHRA] is a partnership between the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management [BLM] and the State of Colorado's Department of Natural Resource's Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation, with Department of Agriculture's Forest Service [FS] and the State of Colorado's Department of Natural Resource's Division of Wildlife [CDOW] to manage recreation resources and activities along 148 miles of the...

This report outlines an initial assessment of selected whitewater parks and courses that have been designed and installed in rivers across the State of Colorado. This effort has been undertaken to provide a convenient, useful description of the location, ownership, design, intended use and success to date for examples of this genre of public works which have become institutionalized recreation amenities and economic development catalysts for river...

In 1875, a young Inupiat boy travels the length of the Kobuk River with his family, from its source in the mountains of northern Alaska to Kotzebue Sound, where they join others for an annual trade fair.

Water quality standards in Colorado have been developed and applied in permitting with the simplifying assumption that effluent will be fully mixed with the receiving water at or very near the point of discharge. This assumption typically is incorrect; there often is a significant mixing zone below the point of discharge. In such a case, water quality standards may be exceeded within the mixing zone, even when the effluent discharge is in full compliance...