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Historic Nevada waters : four rivers, three lakes, past and present / Hunt Janin and Ursula Carlson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Janin, Hunt, 1940- author.
- Carlson, Ursula, 1943- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Water rights.
- History.
- Waterways.
- Great Basin--History.
- Great Basin.
- Waterways--Great Basin.
- Water rights--Nevada--History.
- Water rights--California, Northern--History.
- Northern California.
- Nevada.
- United States--Great Basin.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 208 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2019]
- Summary:
- "The Great Basin is a hydrographic region that includes most of Nevada and parts of five other Western states. Drawing on a range of sources, the author addresses both the natural and the human aspects of the history and likely futures of Great Basin waterways"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The rivers
- The Indians before and after contact with the whites
- Highlights of exploration, emigration, communications and transportation
- Rivers encourage the development of agriculture, towns and cities
- The rise and fall of the Comstock Lode and its rivals
- Railroads depend on the rivers and forests
- The Chinese find gold and build railroads
- An introduction to Nevada's water laws and water rights
- Basque sheepherders in the high desert ranges
- The Newlands Project
- The Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe Challenges Derby Dam
- The Comstock Lode
- The Alpine Decree
- Lake Tahoe and the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA)
- The Truckee River Operating Agreement (TROA)
- Walker Lake
- Nevada floods
- Notable men and women living near the waterways
- Environmental degradation
- Climate change and population growth
- Looking toward the future
- Envoi
- Annotated chronology
- Appendix 1: Dan De Quille on how the sinks came into being
- Appendix 2: Floodplain protection for the Carson River
- Appendix 3: Denial of global warming
- Appendix 4: A note on the effects of humidity on snowpack.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781476672618
- 147667261X
- OCLC:
- 1089881038
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