Insight Guides Colorado Travel made easy. Ask local experts. Comprehensive travel guide packed with inspirational photography and fascinating cultural insights, now with free eBook. From deciding when to go, to choosing what to see when you arrive, this guide to Colorado is all you need to plan your perfect trip, with insider information on ......
A detailed guide to fly-fishing destinations in the Rocky Mountains, many of which can only be reached by foot or on horseback, this book includes discussions on necessary gear AND strategies. The actual destinations are explored in depth. 33 color illustrations.
Told from the unique perspective of a woman, mother, environmentalist, cowboy, and rancher, this work of literary nonfiction conveys the joys, challenges, heartbreaks, and qualms of contemporary ranching in the American West. On nineteen thousand acres of combined public and private land in southwest Colorado, Kathryn Wilder and her son, with ......
A History of Managing the Backcountry and Wilderness of a National Park
Mesa Verde National Park is the only congressionally designated land-based Wilderness to prohibit all recreational use. While backcountry use was encouraged for decades, stewardship changed over time as "gardening" the park for aesthetic purposes decreased while secrecy increased. The reasons for these changes, as Christopher Barns discovered, are ......
The final report from the Utah Statewide Archeological Survey that covers an area bounded on the north by the Uintah Mountains, on the west by the Wasatch Mountains and Plateau, and on the south by the southern edge of the Dirty Devil drainage. The Colorado River and the Utah-Colorado state line form the eastern boundary.
Contains the archaeological survey of the Kaiparowits Plateau by James Gunnerson, the Glen Canyon main stem survey by Don Fowler, and the San Juan triangle survey by Ted Weller reports.
Based on archaeological research in Colorado's Middle Park-a high mountain basin initially encountered by Europeans in the early 1800s and occupied for centuries by the Ute people-The First Rocky Mountaineers is a prehistory of the earliest people of the region at the conclusion of the Ice Age. The Utes and their predecessors lived and thrived for ......
There are endless hiking options in Colorado, and the Front Range (which runs from the Wyoming/Colorado border north of Fort Collins to Pikes Peak/Colorado Springs in the south) is one of the best areas to explore. Best Hikes in Colorado's Front Range highlights the top trails from Fort Collins down to Colorado Springs. The book includes a variety ......
As the population of the greater Las Vegas area grows and the climate warms, the threat of a water shortage looms over southern Nevada. But as Christian S. Harrison demonstrates in All the Water the Law Allows, the threat of shortage arises not from the local environment but from the American legal system, specifically the Law of the River that ......
