Proposed Tulare Basin Wildlife Management Area
Author : U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Region 1
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 16,47 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Government publications
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Author : U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Region 1
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 16,47 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Government publications
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Author : Douglas R. Littlefield
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 50,38 MB
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0806166967
When Europeans first arrived at what is now California’s San Joaquin Valley, they found a vast landscape of wetlands, small ponds, riparian forests, and grasslands surrounding three large swampland lakes. What greets a visitor to the region today is a dramatically different view of mile after mile of row crops, vineyards, orchards, and grazing acreage—some of the most fertile and productive agricultural land in the world. This remarkable transformation, with its enduring consequences, is at the center of Ruling the Waters, a legal, social, and environmental history of how western water law shaped, and was shaped by, the subjugation of the largest freshwater wetlands wildlife habitat in the West. At the heart of efforts to wrest arable land from the region was the Kern River, which rises in the Sierra Nevada and carries snowmelt to what was once a great network of lakes, sloughs, and marshes at the southern end of California’s Central Valley. In Ruling the Waters Douglas R. Littlefield describes how, over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, pioneers and entrepreneurs diverted water out of this network of waterways to extract gold in the mountains and irrigate farms lower down the river, and how the law was made to accommodate these practices. Struggles over the Kern River’s water established one of the most important concepts in water law in some parts of the United States—that prior appropriation, dependent on the chronological order of diversions from waterways, could legally coexist with riparian rights, which restrict water usage to landownership directly next to a river or stream. Littlefield traces this concept to the 1886 California Supreme Court case of Lux v. Haggin—which pitted the giant farming and cattle company of Miller & Lux against a prominent land baron, James B. Haggin—and shows how the lawsuit profoundly shaped future waters issues, which in turn influenced water laws in other western states that were grappling with similar questions. Far from a dry legal history, Ruling the Waters tells a story with world-wide historical environmental ramifications, a tale of competing personalities and values and visions that forever changed both the economy and the ecology of the American West.
Author : Philip Garone
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 11,24 MB
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : 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 : Philip Frank Garone
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Page : 724 pages
File Size : 25,89 MB
Release : 2006
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Author : United States. Migratory Bird Conservation Commission
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 26,11 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Bird refuges
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies
Publisher :
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 39,47 MB
Release : 2006
Category : United States
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Page : 822 pages
File Size : 30,64 MB
Release : 2006
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Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
Page : 1544 pages
File Size : 45,89 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
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Page : 1122 pages
File Size : 20,23 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Government publications
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Author : U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Publisher :
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 17,12 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Public lands
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