The story of the advancing American frontier has unending interest. Perhaps one of the most colorful and unusual frontier developments was that of the mining frontier in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. During the years following the discovery of gold in 1858 and the early 1880's occurred an almost

This thesis explores preservation issues regarding modernist architecture in Chicago. As urban and public history research, the project examines the new questions brought to the forefront by recent controversies over the preservation of modernist architecture. Modernism, and an "all concrete" varian

This thesis studies the world-building elements of Urban Fantasy, a genre of popular fiction that emerged in the early 1980’s. I examine the genre as a model-variant of the fantastic that uses elements of traditional Fantasy, Science-Fiction, and the Gothic to construct a believable storyworld inhab

A later culture knowa as Che Ozark To;}-Layer Culture (Illinois River area) possessed the bow ond crrov;» a variety of hotiQ and etone iciplemsnts, end v?sre makers of crude pottery.Anothsr culture flourished about 1200 A.D. In the Arkansas River Valley (Bradens Bottoms) in northeastern Le Flore cou

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The BLM has adopted a two-phase procedure for the integration of geological, energy and minerals (GEM) resources data for suitable/nonsuitable decisions for wilderness study areas (WSA's).

Climate models forecast that headwater catchments in the western U.S. will undergo a reduction in snowpack, early season snowmelt, and increases in evapotranspiration. The resulting extended dry season will stress vegetation in mountainous watersheds throughout the Upper Colorado River Basin. We inv

Variation in population sizes of indicator species on an annual scale is much more likely to be of significance for most studies of ecosystem recovery. This broader time scale encompasses the regularly occurring seasonal climatic cycles and the corresponding variation in population dynamics of most

Secondo l’U.S. Census Bureau, il 50% della popolazione degli Stati Uniti viveva in aree suburbane nel 2000. Stando ai dati del censimento 2010, questa quota è ulteriormente cresciuta, passando al 58%. Un aumento enorme, se pensiamo che negli anni ’20 del xx secolo questa quota era attorno al 15%. N

We use relative dating criteria to document post-depositional alteration of till and periglacial deposits, and to map these deposits as facies of four allostratigraphic units (alloformations) in the Wind River Range. The alloformations are composed of till as well as rock-glacier, protalus-rampart,

Attached to the division of the San Juan as assistant topographer, as much time as possible was given to the botany of the country through which our work obliged us to pass. Under such circumstances, it was impossible to make a complete botanical collection of the district given to our division ; th

What sociological attributes characterize the form of an enduring social organization that empowers individually rational self-interested actors to provide themselves with a common property resource and collective good? In order to address this research question, the analyst compared three common pr

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