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Full-Text Articles in Desert Ecology
A Review Of The Limnology Of And Water Quality Standards For Lake Mead, Charles R. Goldman
A Review Of The Limnology Of And Water Quality Standards For Lake Mead, Charles R. Goldman
Publications (WR)
1. The waters of Las Vegas Bay, a heavily utilized recreational resource, receive discharges from a variety of municipal and industrial waste sources. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has determined, on the basis of numerous studies, that the present water quality violates state and federal standards and constitutes a public nuisance. Consultants have advised the Sewage and Wastewater Advisory Committee that rapid abatement of the alleged pollution conditions can be achieved by an advanced wastewater treatment (AWT) plant.
2. The major problems in Las Vegas Bay are an objectionable water color, excessive turbidity, noxious odors, and oxygen depletion in certain …
Annotated Checklist Of The Vascular Plants Of Washington County, Utah, Susan Elizabeth Meyer
Annotated Checklist Of The Vascular Plants Of Washington County, Utah, Susan Elizabeth Meyer
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
This thesis is comprised of two parts, the annotated checklist of plants and the explanatory text which precedes it.
The checklist includes entries for the 1,207 vascular plant species known to occur in Washington county. each entry consists of species name, floristic component classification, community type occurrence, range termination information, specimen citations, and in some cases notes and relevant synonymy.
The explanatory text includes a discussion of the methods used in the preparation of the checklist, a description of the study area, a conspectus of botanical research in the area, and a summary of the systematic and phytogeographic affiliations of …
Distribution Of Stream Pollution In Lake Water, Richard W. Tew, Samuel S. Egdorf, James E. Deacon
Distribution Of Stream Pollution In Lake Water, Richard W. Tew, Samuel S. Egdorf, James E. Deacon
Publications (WR)
Wastewater effluent-laden waters from Las Vegas Wash (LVW) form a density current that may be detected in Boulder Basin of Lake Mead at considerable distances from the wash estuary. This led to the suspicion that water from the inflowing stream [40 mgd (1.5 X 105 cu m/day)] might not be rapidly diluted in the enormous volume of the lake [19 mil acre-ft (2.3 X 1010 cu m)], but might persist as a recognizable entity to the vicinity of the intake of a major water source for populous Clark County, Nev.
Because of the detection sensitivity implicit in the …
Emus On The Move : 1976, Michael T. Sexton
Emus On The Move : 1976, Michael T. Sexton
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
The greatest migration of emus in recent times came out of the ZMurchison and Gascoyne pastoral areas during the winter of 1976. The emus were driven south-westerly by an instinctive search for food.
The Agriculture Protection Board's barrier fences stoped the wave of emus on the fringes of the wheatbelt, causing a congregation estimated in mid June to total 50,000 birds.
This article reviews the reason behind the emu migration and the policies employed to deal with such a situation.
Biological Inventory Of The Southern Nevada Water Project, Second Stage, W. Glen Bradley, J. Scott Miller
Biological Inventory Of The Southern Nevada Water Project, Second Stage, W. Glen Bradley, J. Scott Miller
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The present report is a biological inventory of the Southern Nevada Water Project, Second Stage. The boundaries of the project encompass sections of North Las Vegas, Las Vegas, East Las Vegas and areas along Las Vegas Wash extending to its drainage point in Las Vegas Bay in Lake Mead. Therefore, it encompasses a wide array of ecological situations and landscapes ranging from essentially natural to various stages of urban development.
This biological inventory presents basic ecological classifications, descriptions of vegetation, lists of vascular plants and vertebrates known to occur in the area. Each major group, i.e., plants, fish, amphibians, reptiles, …