Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

For thirty-five girls, the Selection is the chance of a lifetime. The opportunity to escape the life laid out for them since birth. To be swept up in a world of glittering gowns and priceless jewels. To live in a palace and compete for the heart of gorgeous Prince Maxon. But for America Singer, being Selected is a nightmare. It means turning her back on her secret love with Aspen, who is a caste below her. Leaving her home to enter a fierce competition...

Cassie Beaumont wants to find her perfect match, but so far, nothing has worked. What's left? Professional matchmaker Simon Dodson, but he's very choosy about the clients he takes on. Cassie finds him a difficult, acerbic know-it-all, and is astonished when he accepts her as a client. Claiming he has her perfect mate in mind, Simon assigns her three Christmas tasks to complete before she can meet him. Despite a number of comical mishaps, Cassie does...

This Corrective Measures Work Plan (CMWP) evaluates and selects appropriate corrective measures for the remediation of environmental contamination at the Hamilton Sundstrand Former Denver Facility. ARCADIS U.S., Inc. (ARCADIS) is responsible for the design, implementation, and operation of the remediation systems at the site under a Guaranteed Remediation Program Agreement. In addition to evaluating and selecting corrective measures, this CMWP also...

This report summarizes recent observations and field measurements of channel change in selected reaches of the Colorado River near Grand Junction Colorado This work was undertaken to assess effects of recent high flows on sites that have been monitored as part of on-going fish habitat studies.

An anthology of short fiction selected by the author herself features selections from "The Wheel of Love," "Marriages and Infidelities," and "Heat," as well as nine previously unpublished works.

CDOT has prioritized the research of select methods to evaluate the performance of the I-25 Gap work zone and future CDOT construction projects. Work zone performance measures provide comparative metrics that quantify the level of impact a work zone has on travelers, residents, businesses and workers. CDOT has identified the need to research and apply performance measures to the I-25 Gap construction project; establishing a foundation to improve...

David Sedaris has kept a diary for forty years, recording everything that has captured his attention -- overheard comments, salacious gossip, soap opera plot twists, secrets confided by total strangers. These observations are the source code for his work, and through them he has honed his cunning, surprising sentences. Now Sedaris shares his private writings with the world. Theft by Finding, the first of two volumes, is an account of how a drug-abusing...

For almost a century, W. A. Bentley caught and photographed thousands of snowflakes in his workshop at Jericho, Vermont, and made available to scientists and art instructors samples of his remarkable work. His painstakingly prepared images were remarkable revelations of nature's diversity in uniformity: no two snowflakes are exactly alike, but all are based on a common hexagon. In 1931, the American Meteorological Society gathered the best of Bentley's...