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| Author | : Robert Kelley |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 426 |
| Release | : 2023-11-10 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0520921216 |
In its natural condition the Sacramento Valley was a flood-ravaged region where an inland sea a hundred miles long regularly formed during the rainy season, to drain slowly away by the summer months. Today the Valley is marvelously productive, with a great capital city at its center, but only after a seventy-year struggle to devise and build an intricate thousand miles of levees and drains. Robert Kelley sets that battle within the encompassing national political culture, which produced, through the Republican and Democratic parties, widely diverging ideas about how best to reclaim the Valley from flood. He draws on approaches developed in the field of policy analysis to examine the relationship between American political culture and environmental policy-making. We find that the prolonged controversy over the Sacramento Valley illuminates American decision-making, then and now.
| Author | : Robert Kelley |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 436 |
| Release | : 2023-11-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780520921214 |
In its natural condition the Sacramento Valley was a flood-ravaged region where an inland sea a hundred miles long regularly formed during the rainy season, to drain slowly away by the summer months. Today the Valley is marvelously productive, with a great capital city at its center, but only after a seventy-year struggle to devise and build an intricate thousand miles of levees and drains. Robert Kelley sets that battle within the encompassing national political culture, which produced, through the Republican and Democratic parties, widely diverging ideas about how best to reclaim the Valley from flood. He draws on approaches developed in the field of policy analysis to examine the relationship between American political culture and environmental policy-making. We find that the prolonged controversy over the Sacramento Valley illuminates American decision-making, then and now. In its natural condition the Sacramento Valley was a flood-ravaged region where an inland sea a hundred miles long regularly formed during the rainy season, to drain slowly away by the summer months. Today the Valley is marvelously productive, with a grea
| Author | : Robert Lloyd Kelley |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 436 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
In its natural condition the Sacramento Valley flooded annually and an inland sea formed during the rainy season, draining slowly away by the summer months. The effort to control the flooding and exploit the rich valley for agriculture has resulted in an intricate, thousand-mile system of levees and drains. Robert Kelley documents and analyzes the process and the widely-diverging ideas about how best to reclaim the Valley from flood -- a process equally relevant to riverine areas across the country, many of which experienced serious flooding in 1997. A new foreword by David N. Kennedy discusses the Sacramento Valley floods of 1997. "A valuable study, rich in scholarly detail and documentation... of America's use -- and abuse -- of natural resources in the western United States". -- Thomas Jablonsky, Southern California Quarterly
| Author | : John Hart |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780520203686 |
A dramatic environmental saga unfolds in Hart's compelling story of the fight to save Mono Lake, and ancient inland sea in located in the eastern Sierra Yosemite National Park. Hart integrates natural, social, and political history into a story that is a source of hope for anyone concerned about the environment. Complementing Hart's narrative are stunning photos takes by many leading nature photographers, including David Sanger, Galen Rowell, and Betty Randall. 61 illustrations. 31 color plates.
| Author | : Karen M. O'Neill |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 2006-05-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780822337737 |
DIVA sociological history of flood control politics that examines how local and regional pro-growth interests organized to press the federal government to protect land from flooding, and how this action altered the relationship between regions and the federa/div
| Author | : Philip Garone |
| Publisher | : University of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 440 |
| Release | : 2020-03-03 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 0520355571 |
This is the first comprehensive environmental history of California’s Great Central Valley, where extensive freshwater and tidal wetlands once provided critical habitat for tens of millions of migratory waterfowl. Weaving together ecology, grassroots politics, and public policy, Philip Garone tells how California’s wetlands were nearly obliterated by vast irrigation and reclamation projects, but have been brought back from the brink of total destruction by the organized efforts of duck hunters, whistle-blowing scientists, and a broad coalition of conservationists. Garone examines the many demands that have been made on the Valley’s natural resources, especially by large-scale agriculture, and traces the unforeseen ecological consequences of our unrestrained manipulation of nature. He also investigates changing public and scientific attitudes that are now ushering in an era of unprecedented protection for wildlife and wetlands in California and the nation.
| Author | : Jerry Dennis |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 326 |
| Release | : 2004-06 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780312331030 |
The author provides an account of his experiences as a crew member on a tall-masted schooner during a six-week voyage through the Great Lakes, and discusses his other explorations of the lakes, looking at their history, geology, and environmental disaster and rescue.
| Author | : J. S. Holliday |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 374 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : California |
| ISBN | : 0520214021 |
Traces the history of the California Gold Rush from 1849 through 1884 when a court decision forced the shut down of the hydraulic mining operations, bringing decades of careless freedom to an end.
| Author | : David Vaught |
| Publisher | : JHU Press |
| Total Pages | : 325 |
| Release | : 2007-02-28 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0801884977 |
Their dramatic story exposes the underside of the American dream and the haunting consequences of trying to strike it rich.--Kevin Starr, University of Southern California, author of California: A History "Agricultural History"
| Author | : Téa Obreht |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 386 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0812992865 |
In the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, two extraordinary lives collide. Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman, alone in a house abandoned by the men in her life. Lurie is a man haunted by ghosts--he sees lost souls who want something from him. The way in which Nora and Lurie's stories intertwine is the surprise and suspense of this brilliant novel.ovel.
