Download or read book Discovering and Rediscovering the Fragility of Levees and Land in the Sacramento San Joaquin Delta 1870 1879 and Today written by John Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fall and Rise of the Wetlands of California s Great Central Valley written by Philip Garone and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Great Thirst written by Norris Hundley and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-07-02 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of "the great thirst" is brought up to date in this revised edition of Norris Hundley's outstanding history, with additional photographs and incisive descriptions of the major water-policy issues facing California now: accelerating urbanization of farmland and open spaces, persisting despoliation of water supplies, and demands for equity in water allocation for an exploding population. People the world over confront these problems, and Hundley examines them with clarity and eloquence in the unruly laboratory of California. The obsession with water has shaped California to a remarkable extent, literally as well as politically and culturally. Hundley tells how aboriginal Americans and then early Spanish and Mexican immigrants contrived to use and share the available water and how American settlers, arriving in ever-increasing numbers after the Gold Rush, transformed California into the home of the nation's preeminent water seekers. The desire to use, profit from, manipulate, and control water drives the people and events in this fascinating narrative until, by the end of the twentieth century, a large, colorful cast of characters and communities has wheeled and dealed, built, diverted, and connived its way to an entirely different statewide waterscape.
Download or read book CALFED Bay Delta Program Programmatic EIS Long Term Comprehensive Plan to Restore Ecosystem Health and Improve Water Management San Francisco Bay Sacramento San Joaquin River Bay Delta D Dsum Program Goals and Objectives Dapp1 No Action Alternative written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Soil Survey of Sacramento County California written by Arlene J. Tugel and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Industrial Cowboys written by David Igler and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-01-28 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The process by which two neighborhood butchers turned themselves into landed industrialists depended to an extraordinary degree on the acquisition, manipulation, and exploitation of natural resources. Igler examines the broader impact of western industrialism - as exemplified by Miller & Lux - on landscapes and waterscapes, bringing to the forefront the important issues of land reclamation, water politics, San Francisco's unique business environment, and the city's relation to its surrounding hinterlands. He provides a rich discussion of the social relations engineered by Miller & Lux, from the dispossession of Californio rancheros to the ethnic segmentation of the firm's massive labor force."--Jacket.
Download or read book Cache Slough yolo Bypass Ecosystem Monitoring Study to Determine Wetland Mitigation Success written by Michelle L. Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fall and Rise of the Wetlands of California s Great Central Valley written by Philip Frank Garone and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evaluation of the Causes of Levee Erosion in the Sacramento San Joaquin Delta California written by John T. Limerinos and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sacramento River Delta Area written by California State University, Sacramento. Library and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Briefing Paper on Delta Levee and Channel Management Issues written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book California State Publications written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of Activities of the Department of Water Resources written by California. Department of Water Resources and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sacramento River Bank Protection Project Phase II Unit 41A Environmental Impact Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Levee Decisions and Sustainability for the Sacramento San Joaquin Delta written by Robyn Jean Suddeth and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta's fragile levee system is subject to several physical realities that make them increasingly prone to failure. State planners face the challenge of preparing for future Delta flooding. This study presents an economic method for approaching the evaluation of Delta island levee upgrades and repairs. A Levee Decision Analysis Model (LDAM) is applied to the question: How should the state optimally prioritize levee upgrade and repair efforts in the Delta? We focus on 34 major agricultural islands that make up most of the Delta's Primary Zone and include all non-urban subsided islands. This initial analysis indicates that it is economically optimal for the state to not upgrade all 34 Delta islands examined, mostly due to the high cost of levee upgrades that produce little improvement in levee reliability. When we assume increased effectiveness of upgrades, it becomes optimal to upgrade some islands. Others are never optimally upgraded, even under the most optimistic scenario. Our analysis also suggests that from an economic perspective, taking into account land and asset values, it is not cost effective to repair between 18 and 23 of these islands when they fail. When property values for all islands were doubled in a sensitivity analysis, only four islands of those originally not repaired become cost effective to repair. The LDAM model presented here is a useful approach for Delta policy-makers. It provides a quantitative framework for answering several relevant questions regarding reasonable levee upgrade and repair investments. These initial results may act as a springboard for discussion, and the LDAM model as a working framework for developing an optimal strategy. An important and inescapable conclusion of this analysis is that maintaining the current Delta landscape is unlikely to be economical from a business or land use perspective.
Download or read book California Geology written by California. Division of Mines and Geology and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Long Term Levee Protection Plan written by CALFED Bay-Delta Program and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
