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2) The raft
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Reluctant Nicky spends a wonderful summer with Grandma who introduces him to the joy of rafting down the river near her home and watching the animals along the banks.
4) Pond & river
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This is a photo essay about the range of plants and animals found in fresh water throughout the year, examining the living conditions and survival mechanisms of creatures dwelling at the edge of the water, on its surface, or under the mud.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Description
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...
8) River story
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Follows a river from its source as a mountain stream formed from melting snow, as it rushes over rocks and through valleys to the busy city, and finally to its end, where it joins the sea.
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Formats
Description
"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...
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Description
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...
Description
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.
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
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...
13) The Grand Canyon
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"It all started with water. But how did one river make such a deep canyon? Read on and find out"--Back cover.