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.
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1442
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1442
Book Description
Bitter Waters
Author: Patrick Dearen
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806154616
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
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: 0806154616
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
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.
Report
Author: United States. Congress Senate
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2830
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2830
Book Description
Brantley Project
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Water and Power Resources
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Through 1958
Author: United States
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irrigation laws
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irrigation laws
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Nomination of Frederick A. Seaton to be Secretary of the Interior
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1284
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1284
Book Description
State of the States
Author: Water Resources Council (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Groundwater
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Groundwater
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Second Supplemental Appropriation Bill, 1958, Hearings Before ... 85-2, on H.R. 10881
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Appropriations Committee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Second Supplemental Appropriation Bill, 1958
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Budget
Languages : en
Pages : 1398
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Budget
Languages : en
Pages : 1398
Book Description