Author: Max R. McCarthyPublisher: Charles Redd Center for Western Studies
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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The Last Chance Canal Company
Author: Max R. McCarthyPublisher: Charles Redd Center for Western Studies
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Bulletin
Author: United States. Office of Experiment StationsPublisher:
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Category : Agricultural experiment stations
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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Hearings
Author: United States. Congress SenatePublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2424
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Weeds
Author: Evelyn I. FundaPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 149620980X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
In Thomas Jefferson's day, 90 percent of the population worked on family farms. Today, in a world dominated by agribusiness, less than 1 percent of Americans claim farm-related occupations. What was lost along the way is something that Evelyn I. Funda experienced firsthand when, in 2001, her parents sold the last parcel of the farm they had worked since they married in 1957. Against that landscape of loss, Funda explores her family's three-generation farming experience in southern Idaho, where her Czech immigrant family spent their lives turning a patch of sagebrush into crop land. The story of Funda's family unfolds within the larger context of our country's rich immigrant history, western culture, and farming as a science and an art. Situated at the crossroads of American farming, Weeds: A Farm Daughter's Lament offers a clear view of the nature, the cost, and the transformation of the American West. Part cultural history, part memoir, and part elegy, the book reminds us that in losing our attachment to the land we also lose some of our humanity and something at the very heart of our identity as a nation.
Columbia Valley Administration
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public WorksPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 822
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Columnia Valley Administration
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public WorksPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 818
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Annual Report
Author: United States. Bureau of ReclamationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 660
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Annual Report of the Reclamation Service
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.). Reclamation ServicePublisher:
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Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 728
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Bear River
Author: Craig DentonPublisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 0874216648
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Craig Denton notes, “Water will be the primary political, social, and economic issue in the Intermountain West in the twenty-first century.” Urban Utah thirsts for the Great Salt Lake principal source, the Bear River. Plans abound to divert it for a rapidly growing Wasatch Front, as the last good option for future water. But is it? Who now uses the river and how? Who are its stakeholders? What does the Bear mean to them? What is left for further use? How do we measure the Bear's own interest, give it a voice in decisions? Craig Denton's documentary takes on these questions. He tells the story of the river and the people, of many sorts, with diverse purposes, who live and depend on it. Bear River begins in alpine snowfields, lakes, and creeks in the Uinta Mountains, flows north through Wyoming, loops south in Idaho, and enters the inland sea by way of the an environmentally critical bird refuge. Along the way it has many uses: habitat, farms, electricity, recreation, lawns and homes. Denton researches the natural and human history of the river, photographed it, interviewed many stakeholders, and tried to capture the river perspective. His photographs, printed as crisp duotones, carry us downstream, ultimately to big questions, begging to be answered soon, about what we should and can make of the Bear River. Denton writes, Gravity my engine, Water my soul. I am the teller of life and deep time. You would measure me. Sever me. Own me. In your name. Let me flow In your imagination That I may speak.
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