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2) The raft
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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.
3) Pond & river
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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.
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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...
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"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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
12) Bear came along
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An assortment of animals living separate lives discover they need each other when they have a chance encounter on a river.
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"Joan Rivers was known all over the world--from the Palace Theater to Buckingham Palace, from the bright lights of Las Vegas to the footlights of Broadway, from the days of talkies to hosting talk shows. But there was only one person who knew Joan intimately, one person who the authorities would call when she got a little out of hand. Her daughter and best friend, Melissa. Joan and Melissa Rivers had one of the most celebrated mother-daughter relationships...
17) Go home, river
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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.