Rocky Mountains
This guide describes 590 species, with detailed information on flowering season, related species, range, and habitat. More than 100 plant drawings supplement these descriptions, and more than 200 colour photographs show flowers as they appear in the field.
In one easy-to-carry volume, this comprehensive field guide includes plants and wildlife it would otherwise take ten field guides to cover - all the flora and fauna you're most likely to see in the forest communities of the Rocky Mountains and the Southwest. With 53 colour plates and more than 80 colour photos illustrating trees, birds, mammals, wildflowers, mushrooms, reptiles and amphibians...
"The Peterson Identification System," describes Roger Tory Peterson's unique system that shows exactly what features to look for to tell one species from another.
Here are descriptions and illustrations of 1,492 species from 77 families - virtually all of the wildflowers found from British Columbia to Baja California, from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. Grouped by colour...
Thirty seven hikes are described in the Colombia River Basin, Colville National Park, around Spokane/Coeur d'Arlene, Lolo National Forest and Idaho Panhandle National Forests.
An excellent guide for mountain-man enthusiasts and an intriguing exploration of the West, Rocky Mountain Rendezvous focuses on the fur-trading rendezvous that took place from 1825-1840 in the Central Rocky Mountains. Originally commercial gatherings where furs were traded for necessities such as traps, guns, horses, and other supplies, they evolved into rich social events that were pivotal in...
Since the Pikes Peak gold rush in the mid-nineteenth century, women have gone into the mountains of Colorado to hike, climb, ski, homestead, botanize, act as guides, practice medicine, and meet a variety of other challenges, whether for sport or for livelihood. Janet Robertson recounts their exploits in a lively, well-illustrated book that measures up to its title, The Magnificent Mountain...
This book includes the following papers:
- A.R. Riebau, Reflecting stars in a mountain lake: managing alpine air quality with new techniques for data gathering, pollution modeling, and data visualization
- P. Wezyk, M. Guzik, The use of "Photogrammetry-GIS" (P-GIS) for the analysis of changes in the Tatra Mountains' natural environment
- W. Fraczek, A. Bytnerowicz,...
The third edition of this climbing guide provides a description of routes south of Death Canyon, from Death Canyon to Avalanche Canyon, the Garnet Canyon Peaks, Grand Teton and the Enclosure, Garnet Canyon to Glacier Gulch to Cascade Canyon, Leigh Canyon, Moran Canyon, Webb Canyon and north of Webb Canyon. Tips on winter climbing in the Teton Range are provided.
Tourism is a business. Despite attractive brochures that advertise international understanding and exchange between local people and tourists, tourism is clearly a business proposition for those who supply tourist services and those who market these services world-wide. It is also clear that tourists themselves are more interested in relaxation, a change of scenery, and their own enjoyment...
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