Corrections and updates to the February 2018 release have been uploaded to the Kindle and Kobo digital platforms. The current version is dated April 3, 2018. For prior purchasers, those changes should automatically update to your local digital readers, when you log back into your respective accounts. Happy reading. – Kurt
“A Natural History of a City Creek Canyon Year” has been self-published as an ebook. More details about the book can be found on the Discussion and Contact page.
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This book has four themes. First, it is a snapshot in time of changes in an undeveloped canyon close to an urban center each day over the course of year, written in a journal format. Second, as common temperate zone natural events are seen, like the annual growth of leaves and their falling in autumn, recent scientific literature about that event is reviewed. Third, the history of the development of the adjacent city and the natural area is reviewed from an ecological perspective. Fourth, the limitations of the scientific method in guiding social and personal decision making are examined. That discussion emphasizes how citizens should use critical thinking skills to approach interpreting the many scientific study results in our daily news.
Finally, the book is a reference compendium about the history, geology and natural science of City Creek Canyon and northern Utah. Over 400 journal articles, books, reports, guides, and maps are cited. About 800 newspaper articles that refer or reference City Creek Canyon and its relationship to Salt Lake City, Utah going back to 1855 are cited.
New materials have been added on air pollution in the Salt Lake Valley and City Creek Canyon and on the probability of a major earthquake in the next 100 years. Proofing of the beta reading continues with version 2.0. A final publishable version is anticipated before January 31st, 2018.
Proofing of the beta reading is completed with version 1.9. I will be giving the final publishable version one last read through between now and January 10th, 2018. Then the book will be published. Happy Holidays.
Beta reading version 1.9 is completed. Proofing to a near zero-error version has proven more difficult than anticipated. Final proofing continues with the objective of self-publishing by December 31st, 2017 through Koho and Amazon Kindle Direct. – Kurt
Sample chapters have been added to the Discussion, Review and Contact page.
If anyone who received a beta reading copy would be interested in writing a review of the book for use in marketing, please let me know by comment. – Kurt
Obtaining copyright releases is almost complete. Beta reading continues. The University of California Museum of Paleontology and Berkeley Museum of Natural History has given permission to use the cover art photograph, then graduate student Michael Thomson photograph of a Quercus gambelii leaf.
