James M Aton: 2 books
The River Knows Everything
Desolation Canyon and the Green
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
Desolation Canyon is one of the West's wild treasures. Visitors come to study, explore, run the river, and hike a canyon that is deeper at its deepest than the Grand Canyon, better preserved than most of the Colorado River system, and full of eye-catching geology-castellated ridges, dramatic walls,...
River Flowing From The Sunrise
An Environmental History of the Lower San Juan
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2000
The authors recount twelve millennia of history along the lower San Juan River, much of it the story of mostly unsuccessful human attempts to make a living from the river's arid and fickle environment. From the Anasazi to government dam builders, from Navajo to Mormon herders and farmers, from scientific...