Life on the edge

• Autores: Adam Goff
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2907, 2013, págs. 28-29
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Goff features the Snake river canyon in Jerome ID. Here the homes are "unregulated and unzoned." There seems to be a tension between the advance of civilization and the untamed wilds. At 1700 kilometers in length, the Snake is the longest tributary of the Columbia river to the north-west. The volcanic activity of the Yellowstone hotspot formed the Snake river basin, and for thousands of years, Native American tribes lived on its banks. Then, from the 19th century on, the landscape started changing under the influence of European settlement.