Summary: | These articles were featured in the Los Angeles Times and Audubon magazine during the 1970s and 1980s. Collected here, with an epilogue that updates news of the people and locations mentioned, they look at people and the environment in the two regions, discussing such subjects as the giant waves of Lituya Bay, the piloting of supertankers through Valdez narrows, drought and fire in California, overgrazing in Arizona and Nevada, and an energy boomtown in Colorado. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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