Ellen E Wohl: 3 books
Wide Rivers Crossed
The South Platte and the Illinois of the American Prairie
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
In Wide Rivers Crossed, Ellen Wohl tells the stories of two rivers—the South Platte on the western plains and the Illinois on the eastern—to represent the environmental history and historical transformation of major rivers across the American prairie. Wohl begins with the rivers’ natural histories,...
by Ellen E. Wohl
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Island of Grass tells the story of the Cathy Fromme Prairie Natural Area, a 240-acre preserve surrounded by housing developments in Fort Collins, Colorado. This small grassland is a remnant of the once-vast prairies of the West that early European explorers and settlers described as seas of grass.Agricultural...
Transient Landscapes
Insights on a Changing Planet
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Landscape—the unique combination of landforms, plants, animals, and weather that compose any natural place—is inherently transient. Each essay in Transient Landscapes introduces this idea of a constantly metamorphosing global landscape, revealing how to see the ubiquity of landscape transience,...