Download or read book The Genesis and Development of the Law of Waters in the Far West written by John B. Clayberg and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 275 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 Michigan Law Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Development of Law on the Rocky Mountain Frontier written by Gordon Morris Bakken and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1983-07-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tapping Water Markets written by Terry Lee Anderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tapping Water Markets is about the past, present, and future of water markets. It compares water markets with political water allocation, documents the growth of water markets, and explores the ways in which water markets can be improved and implemented further. This book provides up-to-date information of where and why water shortages are occurring and where and why water markets are evolving to resolve conflicting water uses. Though the main focus is on the United States, it includes examples from other parts of the world to show how water markets are beginning to thrive. It contains institutional detail that is accessible to people who are not economic or hydrologic experts, and comes alive with numerous examples and case studies of water markets. The book begins with an analysis of water institutions as they have varied over time and location. It then covers a range of discrete water management topics including surface water allocation, groundwater management, environmental flows, and water quality trading. The book concludes with predictions about the future of water scarcity and the ability of water markets to shape that future more positively.
Download or read book List of References on Water Rights and the Control of Waters written by Herman Henry Bernard Meyer and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book State Water rights Laws and Related Subjects written by Jack R. Turney and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book State Water rights Laws and Related Subjects written by Harold H. Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bibliography was prepared as an aid to those who will be searching available literature on the subject of State water laws. It should be useful in expediting research and promoting more careful analysis of the subject.
Download or read book Indian Reserved Water Rights written by John Shurts and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2003-03-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 1908 decision for Winters v. United States, the Supreme Court affirmed a lower-court ruling that the United States and the Gros Ventre and Assiniboine Indians had reserved rights to water in the Milk River through an 1888 treaty which created the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in Montana. Since 1908 the Winters decision, or Indian reserved water rights doctrine, has played an important and controversial role in the West. Indian Reserved Water Rights is the first book-length historical study of the Winters case and the early use of the reserved water doctrine. In the book, John Shurts explains how the litigation and its outcome fit well within the existing legal context and into ongoing efforts at water development in the Milk River Valley. He also examines the life of the Winters Doctrine during its earliest years, primarily through a study of water-rights litigation on the Uintah Reservation in Utah.
Download or read book Water Markets written by Terry Lee Anderson and published by Cato Institute. This book was released on 1997 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents examples of how water markets are working in the United States and abroad and examines the development of water law.
Download or read book Conflict on the Rio Grande written by Douglas R. Littlefield and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the Rio Grande since the late nineteenth century reflects the evolution of water-resource management in the West. It was here that the earliest interstate and international water-allocation problems pitted irrigators in southern New Mexico against farmers downstream in El Paso and Juarez, with the voluntary resolution of that conflict setting important precedents for national and international water law. In this first scholarly treatment of the politics of water law along the Rio Grande, Douglas R. Littlefield describes those early interstate and international water- apportionment conflicts and explains how they relate to the development of western water law and policy and to international relations with Mexico. Littlefield embraces environmental, legal, and social history to offer clear analyses of appropriation and riparian water rights doctrines, along with lucid accounts of court cases and laws. Examining events that led up to the 1904 settlement among U.S. and Mexican communities and the formation of the Rio Grande Compact in 1938, Littlefield describes how communities grappled over water issues as much with one another as with governmental authorities. Conflict on the Rio Grande reveals the transformation of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century law, traces changing attitudes about the role of government, and examines the ways these changes affected the use and eventual protection of natural resources. Rio Grande water policy, Littlefield shows, represents federalism at work—and shows the West, in one locale at least, coming to grips with its unique problems through negotiation and compromise.
Download or read book Select Cases on the Law of Torts written by John Henry Wigmore and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Rights of Groups written by Lawrence Rosen and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2024-08-13 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Viewed through the lens of cultural theory, the concept of community that is vital to Americans' self-image is explored in a number of social and legal contexts, including recent decisions about abortion, Native rights, university investments, and the ownership of cultural property"--
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Download or read book The Growth of Water resources Law Under the American Federal System written by Francis William Laurent and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Water Law Bibliography 1847 1965 written by J. Myron Jacobstein and published by Silver Spring, Md : Jefferson Law Book Company. This book was released on 1966 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
