Author: Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Report on the Lands of the Arid Region of the United States
Author: Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Report on the Lands of the Arid Region of the United States
Author: John Wesley PowellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arid regions
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Report on the Lands of the Arid Region of the United States
Author: John Wesley PowellPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
"Report on the Lands of the Arid Region of the United States" by John Wesley Powell, Willis Drummond, Clarence E. Dutton, Grove Karl Gilbert, A. H. Thompson. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Report on the Lands of the Arid Region of the United States
Author: John Wesley PowellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arid regions
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Major Powell's famous 1878 report to the Secretary of the Interior outlines the features of the West's arid regions, and warns against the consequences of trying to impose on a dry country the habits formed in a wet one.
The Arid Lands
Author: John Wesley PowellPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803287815
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
?One of the most significant and seminal books ever written about the West, . . . the classic statement of the terms on which the West could be peopled.??Wallace Stegner (from the introduction). John Wesley Powell's arid lands report was the first to argue that the American West could not support a conventional system of agriculture and that its lands could not sustain unlimited development. He recognized that water was a more precious resource than land, that rainfall could never support agriculture in the region, and that controlled irrigation offered the best use of its natural resources. Years of drought have proved the value of his advice, which was not well received by an expansionist nation. Despite opposition from the timber, cattle, and mining industries, Powell's work led to the first assessments of the available water supplies and to the consolidation of government surveys and policies under one administration.
The Irrigation Age
Author: Catalogue
Author: Michigan State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Visions of the Land
Author: Michael A. BrysonPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813921724
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
The work of John Charles Fremont, Richard Byrd, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, John Wesley Powell, Susan Cooper, Rachel Carson, and Loren Eiseley represents a widely divergent body of writing. Yet despite their range of genres—including exploration narratives, technical reports, natural histories, scientific autobiographies, fictional utopias, nature writing, and popular scientific literature—these seven authors produced strikingly connected representations of nature and the practice of science in America from about 1840 to 1970. Michael A. Bryson provides a thoughtful examination of the authors, their work, and the ways in which science and nature unite them. Visions of the Land explores how our environmental attitudes have influenced and been shaped by various scientific perspectives from the time of western expansion and geographic exploration in the mid-nineteenth century to the start of the contemporary environmental movement in the twentieth century. Bryson offers a literary-critical analysis of how writers of different backgrounds, scientific training, and geographic experiences represented nature through various kinds of natural science, from natural history to cartography to resource management to ecology and evolution, and in the process, explored the possibilities and limits of science itself. Visions of the Land examines the varied, sometimes conflicting, but always fascinating ways in which we have defined the relations among science, nature, language, and the human community. Ultimately, it is an extended meditation on the capacity of using science to live well within nature.
Reclamation Managing Water in the West, The Bureau of Reclamation: Origins and Growth to 1945, Vol. 1, 2006
Author: The Bureau of Reclamation: Origins and growth to 1945
Author: William D. RowleyPublisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
On cover: Reclamation, Managing Water in the West. Tells the history of the Bureau of Reclamation from 1902-1945.