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Streams: Their Ecology and Life

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Collaborative written by ecologists Colbert E. Cushing (Colorado State University) and J. David Allen (University of Michigan), Streams: Their Ecology And Life is a superbly presented field guide packed with beautiful color photography, sketches, charts, graphs, and an authoritative text introducing readers of all backgrounds to the diverse, rich and fascinating splendor of streams and the chains of natural life that form around them. From the different types of rivers to the variety of different creatures that inhabit them and the surrounding area - birds, fish, crustaceans, amphibians, insects and more - Streams: Their Ecology And Life is packed cover to cover with an incredible amount of solid information and highly recommended for personal, school, and community library environmental studies and reference collections.

I'm an environmental engineer in Missouri and I deal mostly with water pollution and wastewater treatment systems. I wanted to read this book so I could know more about actual stream ecology. My last class in stream ecology was many years ago and I felt I needed to know more. This book, which I'm still reading, is excellent and explains the topic in just enough detail for me. While I'm a bit buried in Latin names of the various organisms, it is still very useful information. Water pollution in the engineering sense is treated in much too a simplistic manner. And until the people in the state agencies and consulting firms have a more sophisticated understanding of water quality and how streams function, I think we will continue to waste a lot of money in wrong places and on the wrong solutions.