River basins of the American West : a High country news reader / edited by Char Miller.
Miller, Char, 1951-
2009
GB991.W3 R58 2009 (Mapit)
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Title River basins of the American West : a High country news reader / edited by Char Miller.
Uniform Title High country news.
ISBN 9780870715747 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0870715747 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Publication Details Corvallis : Oregon State University Press, 2009.
Language English
Description 288 p. : maps ; 23 cm.
Call Number GB991.W3 R58 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 333.91/620978
Summary "Examining water issues through the lens of major Western U.S. watersheds, River Basins of the American West explores why water has been, and remains, the West's most essential and controversial subject." "Char Miller has organized writings collected from the pages of High Country News, the voice of Western environmental issues, into sections defined by the great watersheds of the West. Arguably, these drainage systems form the real boundaries of the West, and current water conflicts have their roots in development that ignored this reality." "Contributors to this book - among them activists, scholars, scientists, and some of the nation's finest environmental journalists - probe the intense differences and disagreements over water rights across the West, and present the positive developments toward a lasting solution to the most fraught issue the West faces."--BOOK JACKET.
Note Includes index.
Added Author Miller, Char, 1951-
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Introduction
Colorado River
Rio Grande
Columbia River
Klamath River
Platte River
Missouri River
Riparian restoration.

Continental divides / Char Miller
A river resurrected / Michelle Nijhuis
Quenching the big thirst / Ed Marston
It's time for a new law of the river / Hal Rothman
Colorado River states reach landmark agreement / Matt Jenkins
The efficiency paradox / Matt Jenkins
Charting the course of the San Pedro / Michelle Nijhuis
A thirst for growth / Tony Davis
Of politics and the river / John Dougherty
A tangled web of watersheds / Michelle Nijhuis
A tiny fish cracks New Mexico's water establishment / Greg Hanscom
The mine that turned the Red River blue / Ernest Atencio
Divided waters / Megan Lardner
A river on the line / Greg Hanscom
Peace breaks out on the Rio Grande / Laura Paskus
Too much can be asked of a river / Laura Paskus
Holy water / Jim Robbins
Troubled - and shallow - waters on the west's largest river / Michelle Nijhuis
A river once more / Matt Jenkins
No refuge in the Klamath basin / Rebecca Clarren
The message of thirty thousand dead salmon / Katherine Vandemoer
"Water bank" drags region deeper into debt / Rebecca Clarren
Peace on the Klamath / Matt Jenkins
Saving the Platte / Ray Ring
Truce holds on the Platte River / Andrew Beck Grace
On the Missouri, the middle ground gets soggy / Peter Carrels
Strangling the last best river / Hal Herring
The last wild river / Alan S. Kesselheim
We can still do right by the Yellowstone / Scott Bischke
Catch 22 / Joshua Zaffos
Reweaving the river / Hal Clifford
"Restoration cowboy" goes against the flow / Joshua Zaffos
Persistence frees the Mokelumne / Tim Holt
Seattle embarks on a dramatic experiment in restoration / David Williams
The Hoopa's fight for a river is a lesson for us all / Tim Holt
River redux / Matt Jenkins
Border restoration's odd couple / Morgan Heim
A river sacrificed / Gisela Telis
Riparian restoration guru / James R. Kristofic
Riparian repair / Cleo Woelflie-Erskine.

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