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MSN Encarta Extractive Economics:Americans developed the land’s natural resources in many other ways as well. They used water from the nation’s vast river systems to irrigate arid land and to transport people and goods. They built harbors for ports along the coastlines in order to ship and receive goods from all over the world. They exploited the forests and the fisheries, building major industries providing goods for domestic consumption and for export. Industry developed early in the United States. During the first half of the 19th century, the Industrial Revolution spread from Europe and stimulated the rapid growth of industry in the Northeast. Raw materials were brought to the Northeast from other parts of the country by ship and by a rapidly expanding rail system. Industrial plants processed the raw material into finished products for export and for domestic consumption. From 1850 to 1920, industrial expansion continued and moved westward. Chicago, Illinois, became the leading meatpacking center of the United States. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, became synonymous with steel. Detroit, Michigan, emerged as the automobile capital of the world. Other large U.S. cities developed their own specialties. By the beginning of World War I (1914-1918), America had become the world’s greatest industrial giant. see United States (History). However, as Americans developed the land and its resources, they sometimes created environmental problems. Forests and natural grasslands began disappearing as early as colonial times (17th and 18th centuries), as settlers converted more and more wilderness into farmland. In the 20th century, urban sprawl and industrial expansion led to pollution of the air and water. A growing population, and its demands for a convenient lifestyle, generated tremendous amounts of pollution and waste. By the mid-1990s, Americans created 2.0 kg (4.3 lbs) of trash per person per day. Often the highest hill around a typical U.S. city consisted of the waste buried at the local sanitary landfill. See also Air Pollution; Water Pollution. In the last 30 years of the 20th century, however, Americans have become more aware of environmental problems and have begun programs to reduce pollution and conserve natural areas. People also learned to recycle, to reuse resources, and to protect endangered species. See also Conservation.
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Know Your Watershed Impact ZonesWeb Services and the National Hydrography Dataset Plus A variety of Web services that leverage the National Hydrography Dataset Plus (NHDPlus) and information linked to the underlying NHD are now available or planned for the near future. The NHDPlus surface water drainage network enables Web-based up/downstream query of water quality information, including water quality assessments, water quality impairments, and permitted dischargers. This presentation will describe a collection of such Web services that are being delivered by the USGS and the USEPA. Alan Rea, USGS, and Thomas Dewald, U.S. EPA  posted by geoWIZard @ 9:05 AM View my page on iConnect iLearn in the 21st Century Focus of research paper
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Fur Trading River Roots
Exploring the Fur Trade Routes of North America:
Discover the Highways That Opened a Continent. 2nd ed.
Huck, Barbara, et al. Heartland Associates Inc., 2002. 288 p.
Monticello Ferry Company
At one time there were ferries operating between present Johnson and Wyandotte Counties in what was known as Tiblow, Chouteau and Parrish.
:BONNERSPGS,39.05972,-94.88358,850,BONNER SPRINGS - TIBLOW FERRY
:MUNCIEKS,39.08750,-94.74746,836,MUNCIE KSHS - GRINTER HOUSE CROSSING
Pathfinder Dam - Great Plains Region - Dams
The North Platte Project extends 111 miles along the North Platte River Valley from Guernsey, Wyoming to Bridgeport, Nebraska.
Nebraska: Morrill, Sioux, and Scotts Bluff Counties
Wyoming: Carbon, Goshen, Natrona, and Platte Counties
\"Boxing Day\" Kwanzaa 2006 Prairie Passage 1854
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Nebraska: History
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Reefs in a prairie sea: for half a million years, water and wind have sculptured fantastic rock
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Tallgrass Prairie, PS, E Kansas, 1996, 10894 (4411), Preserve protecting surviving remnant of the
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