Author: Brian Alan Williams (M.A. in geography)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
The Changing Mother Lode Region
Author: Brian Alan Williams (M.A. in geography)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
The Mother Lode Region of California
Author: William H. StormsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gold mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Motherlode
Author: Janet L. FinnEngineering and Mining Journal
Author: Engineering and Mining Journal-press
Author: Calaveras Gold
Author: Ronald H. LimbaughPublisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 087417578X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
California’s Calaveras County—made famous by Mark Twain and his celebrated Jumping Frog—is the focus of this comprehensive study of Mother Lode mining. Most histories of the California Mother Lode have focused on the mines around the American and Yuba Rivers. However, the “Southern Mines”—those centered around Calaveras County in the central Sierra—were also important in the development of California’s mineral wealth. Calaveras Gold offers a detailed and meticulously researched history of mining and its economic impact in this region from the first discoveries in the 1840s until the present. Mining in Calaveras County covered the full spectrum of technology from the earliest placer efforts through drift and hydraulic mining to advanced hard-rock industrial mining. Subsidiary industries such as agriculture, transportation, lumbering, and water supply, as well as a complex social and political structure, developed around the mines. The authors examine the roles of race, gender, and class in this frontier society; the generation and distribution of capital; and the impact of the mines on the development of political and cultural institutions. They also look at the impact of mining on the Native American population, the realities of day-to-day life in the mining camps, the development of agriculture and commerce, the occurrence of crime and violence, and the cosmopolitan nature of the population. Calaveras County mining continued well into the twentieth century, and the authors examine the ways that mining practices changed as the ores were depleted and how the communities evolved from mining camps into permanent towns with new economic foundations and directions. Mining is no longer the basis of Calaveras’s economy, but memories of the great days of the Mother Lode still attract tourists who bring a new form of wealth to the region.
Economic Geology
Author: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper
Author: Environmental Impact Statement for Transfer of the 64-acre Tract, Tahoe City, California, Newlands Project, Department of the Interior
Author: United States. Bureau of ReclamationPublisher:
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Category : Land titles
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Shaping the Sierra
Author: Timothy P. DuanePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520926145
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 627
Book Description
The rural west is at a crossroads, and the Sierra Nevada is at the center of this social and economic change. The Sierra Nevada landscape has always been valued for its bounty of natural resource commodities, but new residents and an ever-growing flood of tourists to the area have transformed the relationship between the region's nature and its culture. In an engaging narrative that melds the personal with the professional, Timothy P. Duane—who grew up in the area—documents the impact of rapid population growth on the culture, economy, and ecology of the Sierra Nevada since the late 1960s. He also recommends innovative policies for mitigating the negative effects of future population growth in this spectacular but threatened region, as well as throughout the rural west. Today, the primary social and economic values of the Sierra Nevada landscape are in the amenities and ecological services provided by its wildlands and functioning ecosystems. Duane shows how further unfettered population growth threatens the very values which have made the Sierra Nevada a desirable place to live and work. A new approach to land use planning, resource management, and local economic development—one that recognizes the emerging values of the landscape—is necessary in order to achieve sustainable development, Duane claims. Weaving personal experience with outstanding scholarship, he shows how such an approach must explicitly recognize the importance of values and the application of an environmental land ethic to future development in the area.