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| Author | : Derek Madden |
| Publisher | : Heyday.ORIM |
| Total Pages | : 413 |
| Release | : 2020-07-07 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 1597144975 |
This guide to the wildlife and vegetation of California’s Central Valley and Foothills Regions features more than seven hundred detailed line drawings. California’s San Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys and the nearby Sierra Nevada Foothills are host to abundant, varied, and often surprising plants and wildlife. This fully illustrated guide pairs over seven hundred meticulous line drawings with descriptions of the birds, mammals, amphibians, reptiles, fishes, invertebrates, plants, and fungi that make this diverse and beautiful region their home. Like a ranger-led nature walk, each species receives a lively overview; readers will learn about freshwater jellyfish, mushrooms that decompose railroad ties, handstanding spotted skunks, salt-shedding pickleweed—not to mention insects. Every write-up not only contains fun facts but also conveys a sense of the complex connections and interactions that sustain life in a unique place. Previously published as Magpies and Mayflies (Heyday, 2005), The Naturalist’s Illustrated Guide to the Sierra Foothills and Central Valley features updated scientific and common names, and a full redesign.
| Author | : Tim Stroshane |
| Publisher | : University of Nevada Press |
| Total Pages | : 429 |
| Release | : 2016-10-27 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 087417001X |
This book is an account of how water rights were designed as a key part of the state’s largest public water system, the Central Valley Project. Along sixty miles of the San Joaquin River, from Gustine to Mendota, four corporate entities called “exchange contractors” retain paramount water rights to the river. Their rights descend from the days of the Miller & Lux Cattle Company, which amassed an empire of land and water from the 1850s through the 1920s and protected these assets through business deals and prolific litigation. Miller & Lux’s dominance of the river relied on what many in the San Joaquin Valley regarded as wasteful irrigation practices and unreasonable water usage. Economic and political power in California’s present water system was born of this monopoly on water control. Stroshane tells how drought and legal conflict shaped statewide economic development and how the grand bargain of a San Joaquin River water exchange was struck from this monopoly legacy, setting the stage for future water wars. His analysis will appeal to readers interested in environmental studies and public policy.
| 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 | : Stan Yogi |
| Publisher | : Great Valley Books |
| Total Pages | : 594 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : |
From the myths of the Yokuts Indians, to stories and poems by famous contemporary writers, this anthology showcases the best literature of Californias Great Central Valley, and provides a rich view of the regions physical and emotional landscape
| Author | : Penny Verin-Shapiro |
| Publisher | : Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 254 |
| Release | : 2014-01-21 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 9781465238412 |
| Author | : Gerald W. Haslam |
| Publisher | : Joshua Odell Editions |
| Total Pages | : 186 |
| Release | : 1990 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : United States. Bureau of Reclamation |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 464 |
| Release | : 1949 |
| Genre | : Agriculture |
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| Author | : Mark Arax |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 577 |
| Release | : 2019-05-21 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 1101875216 |
A vivid, searching journey into California's capture of water and soil—the epic story of a people's defiance of nature and the wonders, and ruin, it has wrought Mark Arax is from a family of Central Valley farmers, a writer with deep ties to the land who has watched the battles over water intensify even as California lurches from drought to flood and back again. In The Dreamt Land, he travels the state to explore the one-of-a-kind distribution system, built in the 1940s, '50s and '60s, that is straining to keep up with California's relentless growth. The Dreamt Land weaves reportage, history and memoir to confront the "Golden State" myth in riveting fashion. No other chronicler of the West has so deeply delved into the empires of agriculture that drink so much of the water. The nation's biggest farmers—the nut king, grape king and citrus queen—tell their story here for the first time. Arax, the native son, is persistent and tough as he treks from desert to delta, mountain to valley. What he finds is hard earned, awe-inspiring, tragic and revelatory. In the end, his compassion for the land becomes an elegy to the dream that created California and now threatens to undo it.
| Author | : Gerald W. Haslam |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 278 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : CALIFORNIA. |
| ISBN | : 0520064119 |
Explores the natural and social history of California's agricultural heartland. This book celebrates the tenacious people of the Valley, where hard work and ingenuity are the means to both survival and success.
| Author | : H. Scott Butterfield |
| Publisher | : Island Press |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2021-04-08 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 1642831263 |
As the world population grows, so does the demand for food, putting unprecedented pressure on agricultural lands. In many desert dryland regions, however, intensive cultivation is causing their productivity to decline precipitously. "Rewilding" the least productive of these landscapes offers a sensible way to reverse the damage, recover natural diversity, and ensure long-term sustainability of remaining farms and the communities they support. This accessibly written, groundbreaking contributed volume is the first to examine in detail what it would take to retire eligible farmland and restore functioning natural ecosystems. The lessons in Rewilding Agricultural Landscapes will be useful to conservation leaders, policymakers, groundwater agencies, and water managers looking for inspiration and practical advice for solving the complicated issues of agricultural sustainability and water management.
