"This is not a pristine, babbling brook," a state official told Mr. Stein.
Evaluating heritability of morphology, behavior, physiology and life history in wild populations of both pristine and imperiled brook trout populations is an important next step in understanding the degree to which life history variation is influenced by underlying genetic variation, and the amount of genetic variation available for the evolution of these traits.
The beeps and bumps slowly fade out, leaving nothing but pristine views and a soothing soundtrack of babbling brooks and wildlife.
The lines were a succinct rendering of Nicholas Hughes, a man who joyously devoted his career to the study of fish in Alaska's snowy rivers and whose home, a handsome 2,800-square-foot 2,800-square-foot 2,800-square-foote and bircabinaced tonard the distant Brooks Range.
In an exceptionally strong year, the decision is likely to come down to a choice between the pristine architect's architecture of McLaughlin's chapel, and the intelligent pragmatism of Brooks's housing, both of which benefited from unusually enlightened clients.
Noatak National Preserve, formerly Noatak National Monument, protected area encompassing a large, pristine mountain-ringed river basin in northwestern Alaska, U.S. The preserve is situated in the Brooks Range, located north of the Arctic Circle, and contains the basin of the Noatak River, an intact and unaltered ecosystem.
Sacrosanct, pristine, untouched.
So little looked pristine.
