Download or read book Ruling the Waters written by Douglas R. Littlefield and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Europeans first arrived at what is now California’s San Joaquin Valley, they found a vast landscape of wetlands, small ponds, riparian forests, and grasslands surrounding three large swampland lakes. What greets a visitor to the region today is a dramatically different view of mile after mile of row crops, vineyards, orchards, and grazing acreage—some of the most fertile and productive agricultural land in the world. This remarkable transformation, with its enduring consequences, is at the center of Ruling the Waters, a legal, social, and environmental history of how western water law shaped, and was shaped by, the subjugation of the largest freshwater wetlands wildlife habitat in the West. At the heart of efforts to wrest arable land from the region was the Kern River, which rises in the Sierra Nevada and carries snowmelt to what was once a great network of lakes, sloughs, and marshes at the southern end of California’s Central Valley. In Ruling the Waters Douglas R. Littlefield describes how, over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, pioneers and entrepreneurs diverted water out of this network of waterways to extract gold in the mountains and irrigate farms lower down the river, and how the law was made to accommodate these practices. Struggles over the Kern River’s water established one of the most important concepts in water law in some parts of the United States—that prior appropriation, dependent on the chronological order of diversions from waterways, could legally coexist with riparian rights, which restrict water usage to landownership directly next to a river or stream. Littlefield traces this concept to the 1886 California Supreme Court case of Lux v. Haggin—which pitted the giant farming and cattle company of Miller & Lux against a prominent land baron, James B. Haggin—and shows how the lawsuit profoundly shaped future waters issues, which in turn influenced water laws in other western states that were grappling with similar questions. Far from a dry legal history, Ruling the Waters tells a story with world-wide historical environmental ramifications, a tale of competing personalities and values and visions that forever changed both the economy and the ecology of the American West.

Download or read book Water Resources of Kern River and Adjacent Streams and Their Utilization 1920 written by California. Department of Engineering and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Kern River and California Aqueduct Intertie written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of Kern County California written by Wallace Melvin Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The San Joaquin Valley of California written by Andrew Jackson Wells and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Detailed Project Report on Kern River California Aqueduct Intertie Kern County California written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Key to Vascular Plant Species of Kern County California written by L. Maynard Moe and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Kern River Formation Southeastern San Joaquin Valley California written by J. Alan Bartow and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report on Kern River Basin Investigation California written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of Kern County California written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Partial Report on Sacramento San Joaquin and Kern Rivers Calif written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Land Water and Settlement in Kern County California 1850 1890 written by Margaret Aseman Cooper Zonlight and published by Ayer Publishing. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Historic Kern County written by Chris Brewer and published by HPN Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Kern River Basin California written by United States. Federal Power Commission and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book California Rivers and Streams written by Jeffrey F. Mount and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: California Rivers and Streams provides a clear and informative overview of the physical and biological processes that shape California's rivers and watersheds. Jeffrey Mount introduces relevant basic principles of hydrology and geomorphology and applies them to an understanding of the differences in character of the state's many rivers. He then builds on this foundation by evaluating the impact on waterways of different land use practices—logging, mining, agriculture, flood control, urbanization, and water supply development. Water may be one of California's most valuable resources, but it is far from being one we control. In spite of channels, levees, lines and dams, the state's rivers still frequently flood, with devastating results. Almost all the rivers in California are dammed or diverted; with the booming population, there will be pressure for more intervention. Mount argues that Californians know little about how their rivers work and, more importantly, how and why land-use practices impact rivers. The forceful reconfiguration and redistribution of the rivers has already brought the state to a critical crossroads. California Rivers and Streams forces us to reevaluate our use of the state's rivers and offers a foundation for participating in the heated debates about their future.

Download or read book Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks and Middle and South Forks of the Kings River and North Fork of the Kern River Tulare and Fresno Counties California written by United States. National Park Service and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: