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Author : Harry Thomas Cory
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Imperial Valley and the Salton Sink written by Harry Thomas Cory and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cory H. T.
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ISBN 13 : 9780259726012
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Imperial Valley and the Salton Sink written by Cory H. T. and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Phipps Blake
Publisher : Franklin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780341843528
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (435 download)
Download or read book The Imperial Valley and the Salton Sink written by William Phipps Blake and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Karl Anderson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738574554
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (745 download)
Download or read book The Salton Sea written by Karl Anderson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Salton Sea was an accident of man created when heavy rainfall caused the Rio Colorado to swell and breach an Imperial Valley dike in 1905. For two years, water flowed into the Salton Sink and ancient Lake Cahuilla. Today, the sea is 227 feet below sea level, covers approximately 376 square miles, and is California's largest lake. During the early 1900s, it became an important bird and waterfowl refuge. When many species of fish were introduced, the Salton Sea also became popular for boating, fishing, hunting, and camping activities. Motels, yacht clubs, and marinas developed around Salton City and North Shore. During recent decades, the sea has become polluted from agricultural runoff, creating a doubtful future for the Salton Sea. However, it remains a sanctuary for anyone who enjoys bird watching, desert landscapes, or beautiful farmlands.
Author : George Kennan
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Salton Sea written by George Kennan and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Imperial Valley Or Salton Sink Region written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309045282
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Water Transfers in the West written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1992-02-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American West faces many challenges, but none is more important than the challenge of managing its water. This book examines the role that water transfers can play in allocating the region's scarce water resources. It focuses on the variety of third parties, including Native Americans, Hispanic communities, rural communities, and the environment, that can sometimes be harmed when water is moved. The committee presents recommendations to guide states, tribes, and federal agencies toward better regulation. Seven in-depth case studies are presented: Nevada's Carson-Truckee basin, the Colorado Front Range, northern New Mexico, Washington's Yakima River basin, central Arizona, and the Central and Imperial valleys in California. Water Transfers in the West presents background and current information on factors that have encouraged water transfers, typical types of transfers, and their potential negative effects. The book highlights the benefits that water transfers can bring but notes the need for more third-party representation in the processes used to evaluate planned transfers.
Author : Michael Patten
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520929446
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Birds of the Salton Sea written by Michael Patten and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-08-19 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Salton Sea, California’s largest inland lake, supports a spectacular bird population that is among the most concentrated and most diverse in the world. Sadly, this crucial stopover along the Pacific Flyway for migratory and wintering shorebirds, landbirds, and waterfowl is dangerously close to collapse from several environmental threats. This book is the first thoroughly detailed book to describe the birds of Salton Sea, more than 450 species and subspecies in all. A major contribution to our knowledge about the birds of western North America, it will also be an important tool in the struggle to save this highly endangered area. Synthesizing data from many sources, including observations from their long-term work in the area, the authors’ species accounts discuss each bird’s abundance, seasonal status, movement patterns, biogeographic affinities, habitat associations, and more. This valuable reference also includes general information on the region’s fascinating history and biogeography, making it an unparalleled resource for the birding community, for wildlife managers, and for conservation biologists concerned with one of the most threatened ecosystems in western North America.
Author : William DeBuys
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826324283
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (242 download)
Download or read book Salt Dreams written by William DeBuys and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Salton Sea, which has become a prophetic story of mounting environmental crises that impinge on the water supply of southern California's sixteen million people.
Author : Benny J Andrés
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 162349219X
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (234 download)
Download or read book Power and Control in the Imperial Valley written by Benny J Andrés and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-27 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Power and Control in the Imperial Valley examines the evolution of irrigated farming in the Imperial-Mexicali Valley, an arid desert straddling the California–Baja California border. Bisected by the international boundary line, the valley drew American investors determined to harness the nearby Colorado River to irrigate a million acres on both sides of the border. The “conquest” of the environment was a central theme in the history of the valley. Colonization in the valley began with the construction of a sixty-mile aqueduct from the Colorado River in California through Mexico. Initially, Mexico held authority over water delivery until settlers persuaded Congress to construct the All-American Canal. Control over land and water formed the basis of commercial agriculture and in turn enabled growers to use the state to procure inexpensive, plentiful immigrant workers.
Author : Redlands Institute (Redlands, Calif.)
Publisher : ESRI, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1589480430
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (894 download)
Download or read book Salton Sea Atlas written by Redlands Institute (Redlands, Calif.) and published by ESRI, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive scientific, historical, and physcial representation of the Salton Sea region utilizing the latest GIS technology
Author : Edgar F. Howe
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Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Story of the First Decade in Imperial Valley, California written by Edgar F. Howe and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The earliest published history of California's Imperial Valley, an 8,000 square mile region located in the southern part of the Colorado Desert. Documenting the pioneer period in the Valley's history, which roughly corresponds with the first decade of the 20th century, Howe and Hall provide abundant details concerning the irrigation project directed by Charles Rockwood and George Chaffey that turned part of the desert into rich agricultural and residential lands. Also includes information on Valley's history before modern settlement, the accidental formation of the Salton Sea, and several early settlers.
Author : Troy Paiva
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781610606530
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Lost America : The Abandoned Roadside West written by Troy Paiva and published by . This book was released on with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunningly photographed examination of the roadside icons that dot America's landscape. Lost America celebrates the boom-to-bust towns, aircraft bone yards, and filling stations of days past that were sacrificed at the altars of speed and technology and relegated to windswept desert plains and abandoned fields. The eye-catching and memorable photography is complemented with a succinct text history that details the rise and fall of each subject. The result is an impressive tour of an America still standing, yet largely forgotten.
Author : C. E. Tait
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780265540244
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Irrigation in Imperial Valley, California written by C. E. Tait and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Irrigation in Imperial Valley, California: Its Problems and Possibilities New River has its source at Volcano Lake and flows down the slope to the northwest across the boundary line through Imperial Valley and into Salton Sea, having a total fall from 24 feet above sea level at the source to - 287 feet at the bottom of the sink. Alamo River, formerly known as Salton River, runs first westward in Mexico, thence northward across the boundary line and through Im erial Valley to the Salton Sea. These two streams are the channe s by which any overflow of the Colorado toward the northwest enters the lowest ortion of Salton Sink. The olorado overflows its banks in Mexico annually and in recent years some of the water found its way into Salton Sink from natural causes, and once, through the work of man, it was unintentionally entirely diverted from its present channel into Salton Sink. Alamo River originally ran through Mesquit Lake by making a sha turn to the west at that point, but the channel was strarghtene by a ditch known as the Alamo cut-off, leaving the lake off its course. The lake has also been almost completely drained by another ditch. A few years a o the Alamo was larger than New River, but in recent floods most 0 the water in the Alamo passed over to New River through Beltran and Garza and Pink Mountain sloughs in Mexico, so that through Imperial Valley New River has been much the larger stream. The recent flood caused by the diversion of the Colorado into Salton Sink forming the sea is described in the latter part of this report, together with the cost] measures which restored the river to its former channel and whio will prevent any further 0 flow into New or Alamo rivers in the future. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Traci Brynne Voyles
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496229614
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)
Download or read book The Settler Sea written by Traci Brynne Voyles and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-11 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2022 Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2022 WHA Caughey Western History Prize for the most distinguished book on the American West Can a sea be a settler? What if it is a sea that exists only in the form of incongruous, head-scratching contradictions: a wetland in a desert, a wildlife refuge that poisons birds, a body of water in which fish suffocate? Traci Brynne Voyles's history of the Salton Sea examines how settler colonialism restructures physical environments in ways that further Indigenous dispossession, racial capitalism, and degradation of the natural world. In other words, The Settler Sea asks how settler colonialism entraps nature to do settlers' work for them. The Salton Sea, Southern California's largest inland body of water, occupies the space between the lush agricultural farmland of the Imperial Valley and the austere desert called "America's Sahara." The sea sits near the boundary between the United States and Mexico and lies at the often-contested intersections of the sovereign lands of the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla and the state of California. Created in 1905, when overflow from the Colorado River combined with a poorly constructed irrigation system to cause the whole river to flow into the desert, this human-maintained body of water has been considered a looming environmental disaster. The Salton Sea's very precariousness--the way it sits uncomfortably between worlds, existing always in the interstices of human and natural influences, between desert and wetland, between the skyward pull of the sun and the constant inflow of polluted water--is both a symptom and symbol of the larger precariousness of settler relationships to the environment, in the West and beyond. Voyles provides an innovative exploration of the Salton Sea, looking to the ways the sea, its origins, and its role in human life have been vital to the people who call this region home.
Author : Phillip H. Round
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826343236
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)
Download or read book The Impossible Land written by Phillip H. Round and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories written in and about the Imperial Valley, both romantic and real, are the subject of this unique comparative study of both literature and the land.
Author : Kim Stringfellow
Publisher : Center for American Places
ISBN 13 : 9781935195320
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Greetings from the Salton Sea written by Kim Stringfellow and published by Center for American Places. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Salton Sea is a man-made catastrophe, redolent with the smell of algae and decomposing fish. Nevertheless, the lake's vast, placid expanses continue to attract birdwatchers, tourists and artists. In Greetings from the Salton Sea, photographer Kim Stringfellow explores the history of California's largest lake from its disastrous beginnings—the "sea" was formed when Colorado River levees broke and spilled into a depression 280 feet below sea level—to its heyday as a desert paradise in the 1950s and its current state as an environmental battleground. Like the 400-plus species of birds that use the lake as a halfway point in their annual migration, developers flocked to the water too: they planted palm trees, built golf courses, and hired showstoppers such as the Beach Boys to perform at area resorts. These days, politicians seek to redirect the lake's only source of replenishment—agricultural runoff from surrounding farms—to water golf courses and green lawns elsewhere. Greetings from the Salton Sea's photographs capture the war among policymakers, environmentalists, developers, and the individuals still living along the lake's shores. As Stringfellow aptly documents, it is a war for water and, ultimately, for existence.
