Author: G. Emlen Hall
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826324306
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
High and Dry tells the story of a river in an arid region and the long history of litigation between Texas and New Mexico as they battle over water rights.
High and Dry
Author: G. Emlen Hall
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826324306
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
High and Dry tells the story of a river in an arid region and the long history of litigation between Texas and New Mexico as they battle over water rights.
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826324306
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
High and Dry tells the story of a river in an arid region and the long history of litigation between Texas and New Mexico as they battle over water rights.
The Pecos River Commission of New Mexico and Texas
Author: Pecos River Commission
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Category : Pecos River (N.M. and Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
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Category : Pecos River (N.M. and Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Pecos River Compact
Author: Pecos River Commission
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Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 9
Book Description
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Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 9
Book Description
Pecos River Compact: Compact Entered Into by the States of New Mexico and Texas Relating to the Waters of the Pecos River Together with the Report of the Engineering Advisory Committee to the Pecos River Compact Commission
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Category : Interstate agreements
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
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Category : Interstate agreements
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Pecos River Compact
Author: Pecos River Commission
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Category : Pecos River (N.M. and Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Category : Pecos River (N.M. and Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Phreatophyte Control in the Pecos River Basin
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Interior and Insular Affairs
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Languages : en
Pages : 54
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Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Pecos River Compact
Author: Pecos River Commission
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Category : Pecos River (N.M. and Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
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Category : Pecos River (N.M. and Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Pecos River Compact. Compact Entered Into by the States of New Mexico and Texas Relating to the Waters of the Pecos River Together with the Report of the Engineering Advisory Committee to the Pecos River Compact Commission. Presented by Mr. O'Mahoney, August 19 (legislative Day, June 2), 1949. -- Ordered to be Printed with Illustrations
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Languages : en
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Pecos River Project
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation
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Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Considers (84) S.J. Res. 155.
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Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Considers (84) S.J. Res. 155.
Bitter Waters
Author: Patrick Dearen
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806154608
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Rising at 11,750 feet in the Sangre de Cristo range and snaking 926 miles through New Mexico and Texas to the Rio Grande, the Pecos River is one of the most storied waterways in the American West. It is also one of the most troubled. In 1942, the National Resources Planning Board observed that the Pecos River basin “probably presents a greater aggregation of problems associated with land and water use than any other irrigated basin in the Western U.S.” In the twenty-first century, the river’s problems have only multiplied. Bitter Waters, the first book-length study of the entire Pecos, traces the river’s environmental history from the arrival of the first Europeans in the sixteenth century to today. Running clear at its source and turning salty in its middle reach, the Pecos River has served as both a magnet of veneration and an object of scorn. Patrick Dearen, who has written about the Pecos since the 1980s, draws on more than 150 interviews and a wealth of primary sources to trace the river’s natural evolution and man’s interaction with it. Irrigation projects, dams, invasive saltcedar, forest proliferation, fires, floods, flow decline, usage conflicts, water quality deterioration—Dearen offers a thorough and clearly written account of what each factor has meant to the river and its prospects. As fine-grained in detail as it is sweeping in breadth, the picture Bitter Waters presents is sobering but not without hope, as it also extends to potential solutions to the Pecos River’s problems and the current efforts to undo decades of damage. Combining the research skills of an accomplished historian, the investigative techniques of a veteran journalist, and the engaging style of an award-winning novelist, this powerful and accessible work of environmental history may well mark a turning point in the Pecos’s fortunes.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806154608
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Rising at 11,750 feet in the Sangre de Cristo range and snaking 926 miles through New Mexico and Texas to the Rio Grande, the Pecos River is one of the most storied waterways in the American West. It is also one of the most troubled. In 1942, the National Resources Planning Board observed that the Pecos River basin “probably presents a greater aggregation of problems associated with land and water use than any other irrigated basin in the Western U.S.” In the twenty-first century, the river’s problems have only multiplied. Bitter Waters, the first book-length study of the entire Pecos, traces the river’s environmental history from the arrival of the first Europeans in the sixteenth century to today. Running clear at its source and turning salty in its middle reach, the Pecos River has served as both a magnet of veneration and an object of scorn. Patrick Dearen, who has written about the Pecos since the 1980s, draws on more than 150 interviews and a wealth of primary sources to trace the river’s natural evolution and man’s interaction with it. Irrigation projects, dams, invasive saltcedar, forest proliferation, fires, floods, flow decline, usage conflicts, water quality deterioration—Dearen offers a thorough and clearly written account of what each factor has meant to the river and its prospects. As fine-grained in detail as it is sweeping in breadth, the picture Bitter Waters presents is sobering but not without hope, as it also extends to potential solutions to the Pecos River’s problems and the current efforts to undo decades of damage. Combining the research skills of an accomplished historian, the investigative techniques of a veteran journalist, and the engaging style of an award-winning novelist, this powerful and accessible work of environmental history may well mark a turning point in the Pecos’s fortunes.