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Delta County Public Library Booklist

Below is a list of books related to water issues, rivers, and environmental and farming subjects that can be found in the Delta County Public Library system. The list can also be downloaded in an Microsoft Excel format by clicking here.

We are always updating this list with the most current information, and are planning to make a list of "NFRIA Recommended Reads" in the very near future. In addition, NFRIA is working to address a need for books for children and teens. We believe it is important to establish community and environmental awareness at an early age.

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Title Author Delta County Call #
The complete whitewater rafter  Bennett, Jeff 37971 Bennett
The last ranch : a Colorado community and the coming desert  Bingham, Sam 333374 BIN
The last ranch : a Colorado community and the coming desert  Bingham, Sam 333374 Bingham
The Colorado, river of mystery, Buff, Mary (Marsh) 3978 Buf
Colorado River storage project / Paonia Dam and relocation of state highway  Bureau of Reclamation 1958 39788 Bureau
I wonder why trees have leaves, and other questions about plants  Charman, Andy 3580 Charman
House of rain : tracking a vanished civilization across the American Southwest  Childs, Craig Leland 3978982 Childs
The secret knowledge of water : discovering the essence of the American desert  Childs, Craig Leland 35537 Childs
Water, earth, and sky : the Colorado River Basin  Collier, Michael 355148 Collier
Citizen's guide to Colorado's environmental era  Colorado Foundation for Water Education 33637 Citizens
Preliminary assessment of the morphological characteristics of the North Fork of the Gunnison River  Crane, Jeffory 39788 Crane
The romance of the Colorado River : the story of its discovery in 1540, with an account of the later explorations, and with special reference to the voyages of Powell through the line of the great canyons  Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel 3978 Dellenbaugh
A Colorado River reader  Fleck, Richard F 391791 COL
River : one man's journey down the Colorado, source to sea  Fletcher, Colin 391791 Fletcher
A river no more : the Colorado River and the West  Fradkin, Philip L 39791 Fradkin
A new plateau : sustaining the lands and peoples of canyon country  Friederici, Peter 333376 New
The Colorado River  Gilpin, Daniel 39791 Gilpin
Watershed : the undamming of America  Grossman, Elizabeth 333391 Grossman
Downstream : encounters with the Colorado River  Halverson, Karen 391791 Halverson
The Colorado River through Glen Canyon before Lake Powell : historic photo journal 1872 to 1964  Inskip, Eleanor. 397292 Inksip
The Arkansas River  Jackson, Tom 39767 JacksonT
Waterwise landscaping with trees, shrubs, and vines : a xeriscape guide for the Rocky Mountains, California, and the Desert Southwest  Knopf, Jim 36359 Knopf
Fluvial changes related to anthropogentic activity on the North Fork of the Gunnison River near Paonia, Colorado LaBounty, Shawn 39788 LaBounty
Colorado River country  Lavender, David Sievert 39788 LAVEN
Colorado trout fishing : methods and techniques  Leeper, Merton D. 37991 Leeper
Water in the West : a High Country News reader  Miller, Char 33339 Miller
Water in rivers and lakes  Nadeau, Isaac 355148 Nadeau
Food chains in a desert habitat  Nadeau, Isaac 357754 Nadeau
When the rivers run dry : water, the defining crisis of the twenty-first century  Pearce, Fred 333391 Pearce
The exploration of the Colorado River and its canyons  Powell, John Wesley 397910 Powell
River of the South Wind: The Arkansas Prescott, John Arthur 3978 Pre
Cadillac desert : the American West and its disappearing water  Reisner, Marc 333391 REISN
The Colorado : a river at risk  Richardson, Jim; Carrier, Jim 391791 Richardson
The Arkansas River  Sherman, Jory W Rivers
The upper Arkansas : a mountain river valley  Simmons, Virginia McConnell 39788 Sim
Colorado River Controversies Stanton,Robert Brewster 39788 Stanton
History of agriculture in Colorado: a chronological record of progress in the development of general farming, livestock production and agricultural education and investigation, on the western border of the great plains and in the mountains of Colorado, 1858 to 1926, Steinel, Alvin Theodore 36309 Steinel
Colorado River basins investigation : Grand Mesa reservoirs. U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation 362786 Col
The Grand Colorado; the story of a river and its canyons, Watkins, T. H. (Tom Hall) 3978 Wat
Rough-Water Man: Elwin Blake's Colorado River Expeditions Westwood, Richard E.Reno 391791 Westwood
Citizen's guide to Colorado's water heritage  Wright, Ruth M 3363610 Citizens
Our place : people and conservation in the Roaring Fork and Colorado River Valleys 39788 Cochran

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