"Civil War Heavy Explosive Ordnance" is the definitive reference book on Union and Confederate large caliber artillery projectiles, torpedoes, and mines. Some of these projectiles are from the most famous battles of the Civil War, such as those at Fort Sumter, Charleston, Vicksburg, Richmond, Fort Pulaski, Fort Fisher, Mobile Bay, Port Hudson, and the Hampton Roads area of Virginia. Others were fired from famous cannon: the "Swamp Angel" of Charleston, the 10-inch Parrott rifles and 12.75 Blakely rifles used in Charleston, "Whistling Dick" of Vicksburg, and the 8-inch British Armstrong rifle...

The assessment report and accompanying geodatabase is designed to give the managers and planners of the City of Rocks National Reserve (CIRO) a better understanding of the natural resources within the Research Natural Area (RNA). Assessment of the natural resources was accomplished by conducting literature reviews, evaluating existing data, and collection of new data. The CIRO was created November 18, 1988, by Public Law 100-696, Arizona-Idaho Conservation Act of 1988. This act drew a 22 mile boundary around lands owned or managed by the USDA Forest Service (USFS), Bureau of Land Management...

The mission of the National Park Service is "to conserve unimpaired the natural and cultural resources and values of the national park system for the enjoyment of this and future generations" (National Park Service 1999) To uphold this goal, the Director of the NPS approved the Natural Resource Challenge to encourage national parks to focus on the preservation of the nation's natural heritage through science, natural resource inventories, and expanded resource monitoring (National Park Service 1999). Through the challenge, 270 parks in the national park system were organized into 32 inventory...