The Fall and Rise of the Wetlands of California's Great Central Valley - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Fall and Rise of the Wetlands of California's Great Central Valley write by Philip Garone. This book was released on 2020-03-03. The Fall and Rise of the Wetlands of California's Great Central Valley available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first comprehensive environmental history of California’s Great Central Valley, where extensive freshwater and tidal wetlands once provided critical habitat for tens of millions of migratory waterfowl. Weaving together ecology, grassroots politics, and public policy, Philip Garone tells how California’s wetlands were nearly obliterated by vast irrigation and reclamation projects, but have been brought back from the brink of total destruction by the organized efforts of duck hunters, whistle-blowing scientists, and a broad coalition of conservationists. Garone examines the many demands that have been made on the Valley’s natural resources, especially by large-scale agriculture, and traces the unforeseen ecological consequences of our unrestrained manipulation of nature. He also investigates changing public and scientific attitudes that are now ushering in an era of unprecedented protection for wildlife and wetlands in California and the nation.
The Great Central Valley
The Great Central Valley - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Great Central Valley write by Gerald W. Haslam. This book was released on 1993. The Great Central Valley available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores the natural and social history of California's agricultural heartland. This book celebrates the tenacious people of the Valley, where hard work and ingenuity are the means to both survival and success.
Highway 99
Highway 99 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Highway 99 write by Stan Yogi. This book was released on 2007. Highway 99 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the myths of the Yokuts Indians, to stories and poems by famous contemporary writers, this anthology showcases the best literature of Californias Great Central Valley, and provides a rich view of the regions physical and emotional landscape
The Other California
The Other California - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Other California write by Gerald W. Haslam. This book was released on 1994. The Other California available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Oildale native, Gerald Haslam, doesn’t like it when folks dismiss the Central Valley as boring and flat. In this collection of essays, he argues that it is California’s heartland and economic hub. In addition, the valley has produced a crop of gifted writers. These nineteen essays range from reminiscences of childhood and adolescence to a portrait of Mexican-Americans and their position in the Valley’s society to a moving essay about having the author’s aging father come to live with the family. Even if you have never lived in the Valley, reading this book will give you an entirely new perspective the next time you drive into it.
The Dreamt Land
The Dreamt Land - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Dreamt Land write by Mark Arax. This book was released on 2019-05-21. The Dreamt Land available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A vivid, searching journey into California's capture of water and soil—the epic story of a people's defiance of nature and the wonders, and ruin, it has wrought Mark Arax is from a family of Central Valley farmers, a writer with deep ties to the land who has watched the battles over water intensify even as California lurches from drought to flood and back again. In The Dreamt Land, he travels the state to explore the one-of-a-kind distribution system, built in the 1940s, '50s and '60s, that is straining to keep up with California's relentless growth. The Dreamt Land weaves reportage, history and memoir to confront the "Golden State" myth in riveting fashion. No other chronicler of the West has so deeply delved into the empires of agriculture that drink so much of the water. The nation's biggest farmers—the nut king, grape king and citrus queen—tell their story here for the first time. Arax, the native son, is persistent and tough as he treks from desert to delta, mountain to valley. What he finds is hard earned, awe-inspiring, tragic and revelatory. In the end, his compassion for the land becomes an elegy to the dream that created California and now threatens to undo it.
