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This ambitious book will enthrall armchair naturalists and river runners alike, offering a stunning tour through the natural, environmental, and human history of Cataract Canyon, a seventeen-mile run of free-flowing river above Lake Powell in the canyonlands of southern Utah. Setting the stage with preliminary chapters on geology, hydrology, prehistory, geography, biology, and river-running history the authors take the reader on a ""downriver journey,"" narrating an exploration of the river that is breathtaking in scope. From the plants and animals that live along its banks to the humans who seek out its rapids, from the wind and water that continue to shape the landscape to the government agencies that seek to control it, all of these become stories woven into the larger fabric of a beautiful, fragile, complex ecosystem where change--good or bad--is inevitable.

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Cataract Canyon is a book of scientific and emotional integrity. Consider it a passport for anyone entering this particular stretch of the Colorado River with their eyes wide open for a joyous pilgrimage.

Cataract Canyon is a labor of experts who love not only the river and everything about it, but who are able to faithfully record the facts without diminishing the mystery of how it all folds together and thereby unfolds in the human mind and eye. A more comprehensive collection of natural, environmental, and human history is hard to imagine.... The knowledge imparted in this book is endless and endlessly fascinating. The Times-Independent, Moab

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Robert H. Webb is a research advisor with the U.S. Geological Survey in Tucson, Arizona. Jayne Belnap is a biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Moab, Utah. John Weishiet is a senior river guide and co-founder of Colorado Plateau River Guides, which publishes the journal The Confluence.

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