Discovering Alabama Wetlands

By Robert P. Falls and Douglas W. Phillips

Book Overview

Alabama Could Easily Be Called the "Aquatic State." It has an abundant supply of rain with countless streams, rivers, lakes, swamps, bogs, bottomlands, and bays that capture and release this freshwater. An estimated 20 percent of the nation's total freshwater works its way through this small physical land area that ranges from the temperate foothills of the Appalachians to the semitropical Gulf Coast. Alabama's varied watery realms have harbored and continue to sustain a rich diversity of plant and animal species virtually unequaled on the continent.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817311718
• ISBN13: 9780817311711
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 11.3" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Grade 1 to Postsecondary