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Pictorial Softcover. Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket as Issued. First Edition. A VERY GOOD, bright, clean, tight copy sans tears, stains, and discoloration with all text and illustrations clear/unmarked. . PROLIFICALLY ILLUSTRATED in black-and-white photographs, maps, and charts with accompanying descriptive captions. From the Introduction: "The Connecticut River is the only principal river in the northeastern United States without a major port, harbor, or urban area at its mouth. This is the result of shifting sandbars in Long Island Sound that impede navigation. This situation has served to preserve the largely rural character of the regional landscape and maintain the river's extraordinary assemblage of natural and relatively undisturbed biotic communities. The lower Connecticut River (see map in center of this bulletin) beginning near its mouth at Long Island Sound and continuing upstream for 58 kilometers (36 miles), contains one of the least developed or disturbed large-river tidal marsh systems in the United States, and the most pristine large-river tidal marshes in the Northeast. there are no other areas in the Northeast that support such extensive or high quality fresh and brackish tidal wetland systems." 79 pages. "These tidal river waters and marshes provide essential habitat not only for several federally listed and candidate species and globally rare species, such as bald eagle, shortnose sturgeon, piping plover, and puritan tiger beetle, but also for dozens of state-listed endangered and threatened species. Concentrations of waterfowl, especially American black duck, in this section of the river are among the highest and most significant in the region." GK3. …