Creating Yellowstone : mountains in the early park years
Historical geography ; Montana ; Nature conservation ; Nature park ; Nineteenth Century ; Resource management ; Tourism ; United States of America
Essay explores the relationship between national parks and nearby residents by reconstructing how locals from Montana shaped the world's first national park-Yellowstone. They played roles as explorers of the bizarre, as tourists identifying key
attractions, as trail cutters and road builders establishing the human landscape, as entrepreneurs guiding the tourism infrastructure, and as arbiters over the extent of federal protection over park wildlife and resources. - (SLD)
Bomb-fallout Cs 137 as a marker of geomorphic stability in dune sands and soils, Pinery Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada
This paper will evaluate the depth distribution of Cs 137 in soils and near-shore dune sands of Pinery Provincial Park, Ontario, in order to relate soil properties to the Cs 137 distribution as well as to investigate the possibility of using the Cs
Patterns of winter dessication in krummholz forms of Abies lasiocarpa at treeline sites in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
Biogeography ; Drought ; Fir tree ; Freezing ; Montana ; Mountain ; National park ; Snow cover ; Tree line ; United States of America ; Winter
The objectives of this research are to : quantify the amount of winter dessication that occurred at treeline sites in Glacier National Park, Montana, during the winter of 1998/1999; determine if the variability in winter dessication between
Environmental change in Glacier National Park, Montana : an assessment through repeat photography from fire lookouts
This paper describes a largely unrecognized source of panoramic photographs from the 1930s for fire lookouts in the American West, and uses a set of those photographs from Glacier National Park (GNP), to illustrate landscape changes through
Air temperature ; Atmospheric moisture ; Cave ; Climate ; Microclimate ; National park ; Poland ; Seasonal variation ; Thermal regime
The paper presents results of seasonal microclimatic research in five caves of this park. and in two caves situated 1,5 km (Mamutowa) and 0,5 km (Nietoperzowa) from Park's bordre. The seasonal changes of horizontal and vertical distribution of air
Competitiveness ; Electronics ; High-tech industry ; Industrial district ; Industrial organization ; Industry ; Network ; Science park ; Taiwan
-based Industrial Park. Along with the creation and maintenance of global competitiveness in this industry, the means of developing organizational relationships and geographical linkages are examined in this paper.
L'ensemble de Lafayette Park (Détroit) est la plus importante réalisation résidentielle de l'architecte moderniste Mies van der Rohe. Cette tour de verre propose un espace domestique révolutionnaire en marge des normes établies. A partir d'une série
d'entretiens conduits auprès de la population socialement et ethniquement très hétérogène de Lafayette Park, l'article analyse les modalités d'appropriation et de domestication des espaces ouverts de Mies, et invite à reconsidérer les accusations d'inhumanité