Science and values in river restoration in the grand canyon: There is no restoration or rehabilitation strategy that will improve the status of every riverine resource

BioScience

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 735-747

  Schmidt, John C ^a   Webb, Robert H ^b   Valdez, Richard A ^c   Marzolf, G Richard ^b   Stevens, Lawrence ^d  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c SWCA Inc   (United States)

^d Grand Canyon Monitoring Res Ctr   (United States)

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EID: 0031828716     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1313336     Document Type: Article

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