Utilization and management of resources in mountain regions of the (former) Federal Republic of Germany
Environment ; Federal Republic of Germany ; Germany ; Mountain ; Natural resources ; Regional planning ; Resource management
Delineation of mountain regions of Western Germany and how people have evaluated the use of their mountain space. Discussion of the assistance programs of five states to develop tourism and preserve nature. In former East Germany, the mountain zones
Stratigraphy and chronology of Quaternary deposits of the Puget Lowland and Olympic Mountains of Washington and the Cascade Mountains of Washington and Oregon in Quaternary glaciations in the Northern Hemisphere.
Cascade Range ; Datation ; Etats-Unis ; Géographie de l'Amérique ; Holocène ; Montagne ; Olympic Mountain ; Oregon ; Pléistocène ; Puget Lowland ; Quaternaire ; Quaternaire zones moyennes ; Stratigraphie ; Washington State
Management of land use conflicts in the United States Rocky Mountains
Colorado ; Conflict ; Geographical information system ; Land development ; Land use ; Mountain ; Nature conservation ; Resource management ; Rocky Mountains ; United States of America
Colorado ; Conflit ; Etats-Unis ; Gestion des ressources ; Mise en valeur ; Montagne ; Protection de la nature ; Rocky Mountains ; Système d'information géographique ; Utilisation du sol
Annual population growth rates in the Rocky Mountain West are now three times greater than those of the United States. The new settlements there is of a more permanent, intrusive nature than the old boom and bust towns ; there are now 35 acre
ranchettes for the ex-urbanites and sprawling commercial developments around national parks. Management of the Rocky Mountain landscape must now focus not on public lands, but on land use decisions regarding private lands. They discuss the System
Revealing diversity patterns of vascular plants and their causes in semiarid high mountain regions. A top-down approach for great basin mountain ranges, USA
Aridity ; Biodiversity ; Great Basin ; Mountain ; Multidimensional scaling ; United States of America ; Vegetation ; Western United States
Exhaustion and steady state models for predicting landslide hazards in the Canadian Rocky Mountains
Alberta ; Canada ; Glissement de terrain ; Modèle ; Mouvement de masse ; Risque naturel ; Rocky Mountains ; Versant
Alberta ; Canada ; Landslide ; Mass movement ; Model ; Natural hazards ; Rocky Mountains ; Slope
Using the prehistoric rock slides and sites of potential rock slides in Kananaskis Country, Alberta, as data, this paper examines the steady-state model and introduces a new model, the exhaustion model, which predicts the probability of landsliding
Integrating local voices and visions into the Global Mountain Agenda
Agriculture ; Ecuador ; Mountain ; Natural resources ; Philippines ; Project ; Resource management ; Sustainable development ; United States of America
Mountains and their inhabitants have scored a number of political victories in recent years (1992 Rio Earth Summit's Chapter 13 of Agenda 21, UN General assembly's declaration of 2002 as the International Year of Mountains, etc), but this does
not mean that either will be better off in the 21st century. Author wants mountain people to be made central to the planning for the future of mountains. He sees mountain-to-mountain exchanges of scientists and indigenous peoples as particularly useful
. Discussed is the Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) project involving Ecuadorians Andes, Bukidon mountains of the Philippines, and the southern Appalachians. - (SLD)
The paper finds, for a sample of 250 nonurban counties in the eight states of the intermountain west, no evidence that the existence of federal wilderness is directly or indirectly associated with either population-density or total-employment
Water Conflicts and the New Role of the State in Rural Morocco. The Example of the High Atlas Mountains
Labour migration ; Morocco ; Mountain ; Rural area ; Social segregation ; State ; Use conflict ; Water
Water conflict and growing social disparities, labour migration and social differentiation, village associations and the reorganisation of the local political arena, water supply in rural areas : stronger or less presence of the state. - (IfL)
Vegetation survey on Mount Trus Madi, Borneo - a prospective new mountain park
Biogeography ; Environmental conservation ; Malaysia ; Mountain ; Nature conservation ; Resource management ; Sabah ; Vegetation
Description of the vegetation of this mountain in the State of Sabah (Bornean Malaysia), delineating three zones between 1 500 and 2 642 m above sea level. Logging is the major threat to this forest; protection as a preserve is urged.―(DWG)
The mountainous West: explorations in historical geography
Historical geography ; Mountain ; Natural environment ; Resource management ; United States of America
Fourteen essays by North American geographers organized around the themes of barriers, islands of moisture, zones of concentrated resources, areas of governmental control, restorative sanctuary, and the mountain-valley interface. All essays deal
Protalus Ramparts on Navajo Mountain, Utah, USA : reinterpretation as blockslope-sourced rock glaciers
Creep ; Moraine ; Mountain ; Periglacial features ; Permafrost ; Rock glacier ; Stone river ; United States of America ; Utah
Here the AA. report the results of field reinvestigation of the Navajo Mountain ridges, designed to evaluate the validity of their interpretation as protalus ramparts, and discuss possible alternative origins for these landforms.
Rates of heave and surface rotation of periglacial frost boils in the White Mountains, California
California ; Freeze-thaw cycle ; High mountain ; Mountain ; Patterned ground ; Periglacial features ; Slope dynamics ; Snow ; Thawing ; United States of America
This paper presents information on active nested patterned ground existing at three distinct scales at elevations ranging from 3900 m to 4150 m in the White Mountains. The processes responsible for the observed movement in the White Mountains
The AA. present a model to explain the pattern of Holocene vegetational changes in the Rocky Mountains. The model is based on the understanding of : 1) the vegetational and climatic history of the Yellowstone region and the northern Rocky Mountains
of Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho; 2) paleoclimate simulations from general circulation models that incorporate changes in large-scale controls; and 3) present-day climatic regimes of the western United States.
Moisture trajectories associated with heavy rainfall in the Appalachian region of the United States
Appalachian Mountains ; Atmospheric circulation ; Atmospheric moisture ; Heavy rain ; Mountain ; Orographic effect ; Precipitation ; Seasonal variation ; United States of America ; Weather type
Appalachian Mountains ; Circulation atmosphérique ; Effet orographique ; Etats-Unis ; Humidité atmosphérique ; Montagne ; Pluie torrentielle ; Précipitation ; Type de temps ; Variation saisonnière
Amerindians ; Cultural landscape ; Cultural studies ; Ethnic community ; Mountain ; Myth ; Tradition ; United States ; Value system ; Western United States
In the American Southwest many mountains, buttes, rivers, springs, caves and ruins are revered by the Navajo Indians as having supernatural power. The most sacred places are four mountains along the state borders in Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona
Stratigraphic evidence of a Pre-Wisconsinan interglaciation in the Adirondack Mountains, New York
Datation C 14 ; Etats-Unis ; Interglaciaire ; New York State ; Palynologie ; Paléogéographie ; Paléosol ; Quaternaire ; Stratigraphie
C 14 dating ; Interglacial ; New York State ; Palaeogeography ; Palaeosol ; Palynology ; Quaternary ; Stratigraphy ; United States
In 1963, open-pit mining at Tahawus, near Newcomb, in the central Adirondack Mountains, temporarily exposed two till sheets separated by 3.6 m of lake or pond clay. Pollen analysis suggests that the pond sediments contain an interglacial pollen