Author: Milton N. NathansonPublisher:
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Category : Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
Updating the Hoover Dam Documents, 1978
Author: Milton N. NathansonPublisher:
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Category : Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
The Hoover Dam Documents
Author: United States. Department of the InteriorPublisher:
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Category : Flood control
Languages : en
Pages : 1154
Book Description
The Colorado River Documents, 2008
Author: Katherine Ott VerburgPublisher: Government Printing Office
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 974
Book Description
Developed by the Bureau of Reclamation's Upper Colorado and Lower Colorado Regions, in collaboration with the Boulder City Field Solicitor, this is the latest of four books published by the Bureau of Reclamation to address the management of the Colorado River since the early 1900s. It summarizes 30 years of updates to the "Law of the Colorado River," a compilation of compacts, federal laws, court decisions and decrees, contracts, and regulatory guidelines that have been implemented over nearly a century to guide the management and operation of the Colorado River. It details the statutes, policies, agreements, and court decisions related to river operations, environmental matters, Mexican treaty deliveries, water development, water entitlement actions, Native American water settlements, proceedings in Arizona v. California, and power generation and distribution issues. All four books are available on the DVD.
Reclamation, Managing Water in the West, The Colorado River Documents 2008, September 2010 (includes DVD), *
Author: Colorado River Documents 2008 (Hardcover Book and Autoloading DVD)
Author: Katherine Ott VerburgPublisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160882012
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
Discusses the history of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's operation and management of the Colorado River on behalf of the Secretary of the Interior from 1979 through 2008. Details the political, legal, institutional, and other instruments developed to address pressing issues faced by Colorado River Basin water users and managers. Reflective of its era, the 2008 volume has an increased focus on coordinated operations of the river in both the Upper and Lower Basins, on environmental matters, on the relationship with Mexico, and on Native American water settlements.
Hoover Dam
Author: Barbara VilanderPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816548269
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Hoover Dam was constructed during one of the most depressed economic climates in American history, in a remote desert canyon where temperatures ranged from single to triple digits. In order to visually document the project, the Bureau of Reclamation assigned employee Ben Glaha to photograph all aspects of the dam's construction. Glaha's photographs were used in press releases, periodicals, books, pamphlets, and slide shows to demonstrate that the dam was structurally sound and that government funds were being used wisely. Hoover Dam: The Photographs of Ben Glaha is the first detailed examination of Glaha's images of the project, some of which have never before been published. Glaha photographed every aspect of the construction process—from details of how the dam was assembled to the overall progress as the dam rose from the bottom of the dry riverbed. Glaha not only provided the Bureau with the photographs it required, he also employed his own artistic abilities to produce images of the dam that were exhibited in museums and galleries as works of art. Because Glaha was able to create a selection of Hoover Dam photographs worthy of exhibition, he was unique among government documentary photographers. Art historian Barbara Vilander's text places Glaha's efforts within the historical context of western landscape exploration and development and reveals how his particular qualifications led to his selection as the project photographer. Vilander then examines the many publications and venues in which the Bureau used Glaha's photographs to create support for the project. She also discusses how Glaha was recognized in his own era as an influential artist and teacher, and compares his work with that of other contemporary landscape photographers addressing western water management. Glaha's Hoover Dam images were widely published, although in accordance with Bureau policy he was not usually given personal credit and therefore his name remains largely unknown. Vilander's book corrects that oversight by giving Glaha the technical and artistic credit he is due within the context of one of the most ambitious projects in American history.
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 968
Book Description
The Colorado River Basin and Climatic Change
Author: Linda L. NashPublisher:
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Category : Climatic changes
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Power and Control in the Imperial Valley
Author: Benny J AndrésPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 162349219X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
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.
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