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Intense development often strains the balance. Here in northeast oregon is a story about conflicting claims on water resources. Well learn how centerpivot agriculture makes the desert bloom, how hydroelectricity fuels rapid industrial development, and how formal regions characterize the resulting human patterns. Not long ago, millions of salmon returned each year to spawn in the columbia river. Native americans here once depended on the fish for their survival. Now their nets are often empty the salmon have almost vanished. Forming a natural border between oregon and washington state, the columbia rivernd its branches provide precious water for the people and wildlife along its path. This is the story of one columbia tributary the effort to restore salmon here on the Umatilla River in northeast oren. Hocageography explain competition over a scarce resource . In the early 1990s, dianiolikeallbegaanmbitiousroje here in the mountains ....
Iudad juarez, mexico is a squatters settlement called anapra. In 1980, this was empty desert. By the 1990s tens of thousands of residents have staked out small plots and constructed makeshift homes. Most tie into the power lines illegally and run lamp wires over the sand to light their homes. 1994 we visit Concha Martinez for the first time living in this tarpaper shack. Like thousands of her neighbors, she has no Running Water or sewers, no title to her land. A single mother, concha built this oneroom home for herself and her four children abel, 12, adrian, ten, wendy five, and the youngest, alexi. Their incredible struggle, and a tenar story of this place will illuminate some key geography themes, including scale has several meanings in geography. One is very specific having to do with ratios of distance on a map to actual distance on the ground. But it also has a more intu ....
narrator: she is about to make her first space flight and become the first female shuttle pilot. this is the crew of s.t.s.-63, and what they learn from wilkinson helps keep them oriented to the geographic perspective. their main mission: the very first rendezvous with the russian spacecraft mir, already in orbit. but the astronauts also have another goal: to give the rest of us a new perspective on planet earth. earth observation is a huge part of why people want to be astronauts and why they work hard and train hard and fly on the shuttle. narrator: just like students at all levels, astronauts need solid geography instruction to accomplish their mission goals. foale: you ve asked me if there s ever a time i get lost in space, at least in relation to what i m seeing on the earth, and the answer is many, many times. narrator: and that s why nasa sends all the crews to class with wilkinson. wilkinson: what s that? where, where, where? collins: land, dirt and water. foale ....
try and make. narrator: she is about to make her first space flight and become the first female shuttle pilot. this is the crew of s.t.s.-63, and what they learn from wilkinson helps keep them oriented to the geographic perspective. their main mission: the very first rendezvous with the russian spacecraft mir, already in orbit. but the astronauts also have another goal: to give the rest of us a new perspective on planet earth. earth observation is a huge part of why people want to be astronauts and why they work hard and train hard and fly on the shuttle. narrator: just like students at all levels, astronauts need solid geography instruction to accomplish their mission goals. foale: you ve asked me if there s ever a time i get lost in space, at least in relation to what i m seeing on the earth, and the answer is many, many times. narrator: and that s why nasa sends all the crews to class with wilkinson. wilkinson: what s that? where, where, where? collins: land, dirt an ....
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