LEADER 04221nam 2200517 450 001 9910795328203321 005 20230117155849.0 010 $a0-8165-4750-5 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC28943154 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL28943154 035 $a(CKB)19919423900041 035 $a(OCoLC)1286663498 035 $a(OCoLC)1287883666 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_98306 035 $a(EXLCZ)9919919423900041 100 $a20230117h20142014 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRequiem for the Santa Cruz $ean environmental history of an Arizona river /$fRobert H. Webb, Julio L. Betancourt, R. Roy Johnson, and Raymond M. Turner ; foreword by Bernard L. Fontana 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aTucson, Arizona :$cUniversity of Arizona Press,$d[2014] 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (297 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Webb, Robert H. Requiem for the Santa Cruz : University of Arizona Press,c2014 9780816530724 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aList of illustrations -- Foreword / by Bernard L. Fontana -- Preface and acknowledgments -- 1. The problem of riverine change -- 2. Characteristics of a desert river -- 3. Causes of arroyo downcutting -- 4. Perennial flow and discontinuous arroyos, 1691-1872 -- 5. Land use, climate, and floods, 1873-1888 -- 6. Arroyo downcutting and widening, 1889-1915 -- 7. Water development and the Great Mesquite Forest, 1916-1942 -- 8. The city and the arroyo, 1943-1975 -- 9. Arroyo management in the time of floods, 1976-1995 -- 10. Channel filling and river restoration efforts, 1996-2012 -- 11. Summary of the past and some possible futures -- Appendixes -- Notes --References -- Index. 330 $a"Requiem for the Santa Cruz is the natural history of the life and death of a Southwestern river. The book is a model for explaining changes in river systems and the consequences"--$cProvided by publisher. 330 $a"Over the millennia, the drainageway we now call the Santa Cruz River has seen many ebbs, flows, and floods. Throughout its long history, the river has meandered. It has flowed on the surface. It has carved deep fissures, and it has widened and narrowed. As readers of Requiem for the Santa Cruz learn, these are events that also have taken place in historic times. Authored by an esteemed group of scientists, Requiem for the Santa Cruz thoroughly documents this river, which flows through Tucson, Arizona, as a prime example of arroyo cutting, a process where heavy rains cut down through rock to create deep channeling. Each chapter provides a unique opportunity to chronicle the arroyo legacy, evaluate its causes, and consider its aftermath. Using more than a century of observations and collections, the authors reconstruct the physical, biological, and cultural circumstances of the river's entrenchment, widening, and subsequent partial filling. Today, communities everywhere face this conundrum: do we manage ephemeral rivers through urban areas for flood control, or do we attempt to restore them to some previous state of naturalness? Requiem for the Santa Cruz carefully explores the channel-change legacy, the efficacy of attempts to stabilize it, and the nascent attempts at river restoration to give a long-term perspective on management of rivers in arid lands. Tied together by authors who have committed their life's work to the study of arid-land rivers, this book offers a touching and scientifically grounded requiem for the Santa Cruz and every southwestern river"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aNatural history$zSanta Cruz River (Ariz. and Mexico) 606 $aStream ecology$zSanta Cruz River (Ariz. and Mexico) 607 $aSanta Cruz River (Ariz. and Mexico) 615 0$aNatural history 615 0$aStream ecology 676 $a577.640979179 686 $aNAT010000$2bisacsh 700 $aWebb$b Robert H.$0123725 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910795328203321 996 $aRequiem for the Santa Cruz$93857043 997 $aUNINA