This is a history of the American West which recounts one of America's most impressive achievements - the creation of an Eden out of inhospitable desert. "Cadillac Desert" recounts this dramatic saga: from the earliest settlers lured by promises of paradise, to Jon Wesley Powell's advocacy of co-operative irrigation projects; from the ruthless ...
A history of the federal water projects that transformed the American West within a single generation. A former staff writer for the Natural Resources Defense Council, Reiser describes how the nationally coordinated construction of a series of dams, aqueducts, roads, and hydroelectric generators during the years immediately following the First ...
"If you are anxious about the safety of American cities, this book may give you a nervous breakdown. Reisner was an uncanny visionary and his testament is this terrifying warning note. It is not for the faint of heart."--Mike Davis ("City of Quartz" and "Ecology of Fear").
An unprecedented and explosive report from the front lines of conservation; the story of the men and women who infiltrate poaching rings in the fight to thwart the full-scale extermination of endangered species. Marc Reisner offers a stunningly written first-hand account of how these agents operate and the harrowing dangers they face minute-to ...
Guidelines for designing solutions that will sustain long-term growth without threatening the West's environment. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
A combination of wildlife lore and true crime, telling the story of men and women who infiltrate poaching rings in the fight to thwart the full-scale extermination of endangered species. It offers a first-hand account of how these agents operate. The author also wrote "Cadillac Desert".
Every day, a dirty war is being fought against dozens of threatened and endangered wildlife species. In America as well as abroad, the counterinsurgency campaign against the poachers and smugglers is being waged by U.S. Fish and Wildlife undercover agents. Game Wars offers a stunningly written, firsthand account of how these agents operate.
One in two people living west of the 100th meridian in the United States resides in California. Crammed into the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles Basin is a population greater than that of Texas. Both these drought-prone regions need to import water over seemingly improbably distances. Reliance on imported water, however, is not their ...
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