Floods And Droughts In The Tulare Lake Basin
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Floods And Droughts In The Tulare Lake Basin
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Author : John T. Austin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-10
Floods And Droughts In The Tulare Lake Basin written by John T. Austin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10 with Droughts categories.
Floods And Droughts In The Tulare Lake Basin Black And White Edition
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Author : John T. Austin
language : en
Publisher: Sequoia Natural History Association
Release Date : 2013-04-28
Floods And Droughts In The Tulare Lake Basin Black And White Edition written by John T. Austin and has been published by Sequoia Natural History Association this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-28 with Science categories.
This is the exact same book as the full-color version that sells for $65 except this edition has only black and white photos and charts. Two charts in particular may be more difficult to understand without color. However, a link is provided in the book to a free website that includes all of the color art, photos, charts, and graphs. This is a much less expensive version for those who mostly want the info without the cost and have online access. This book tells the fascinating story of floods and droughts that have occurred in the Tulare Lake Basin during the last 2,000 years. It records captivating first-hand accounts associated with those floods and droughts, many dating from the pioneer days. This book documents the storms behind the floods, the causes of the floods, and the record snowpacks in the Sierra. It also describes Tulare Lake, and the amazing wildlife diversity and abundance that was to be found in and around Tulare Lake in the 1850s. This technical yet reader-friendly book is an extensively researched document into an important subject for those who live in this region.
Floods And Droughts In The Tulare Basin
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Author : John T. Austin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-12-30
Floods And Droughts In The Tulare Basin written by John T. Austin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-30 with categories.
The West Without Water
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Author : B. Lynn Ingram
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2013-08-01
The West Without Water written by B. Lynn Ingram and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-01 with Nature categories.
The West without Water documents the tumultuous climate of the American West over twenty millennia, with tales of past droughts and deluges and predictions about the impacts of future climate change on water resources. Looking at the region’s current water crisis from the perspective of its climate history, the authors ask the central question of what is "normal" climate for the West, and whether the relatively benign climate of the past century will continue into the future. The West without Water merges climate and paleoclimate research from a wide variety of sources as it introduces readers to key discoveries in cracking the secrets of the region’s climatic past. It demonstrates that extended droughts and catastrophic floods have plagued the West with regularity over the past two millennia and recounts the most disastrous flood in the history of California and the West, which occurred in 1861–62. The authors show that, while the West may have temporarily buffered itself from such harsh climatic swings by creating artificial environments and human landscapes, our modern civilization may be ill-prepared for the future climate changes that are predicted to beset the region. They warn that it is time to face the realities of the past and prepare for a future in which fresh water may be less reliable.
California Exposures Envisioning Myth And History
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Author : Richard White
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2020-03-17
California Exposures Envisioning Myth And History written by Richard White and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-17 with History categories.
Winner of the 2021 California Book Award (Californiana category) A brilliant California history, in word and image, from an award-winning historian and a documentary photographer. “This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” This indelible quote from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance applies especially well to California, where legend has so thoroughly become fact that it is visible in everyday landscapes. Our foremost historian of the West, Richard White, never content to “print the legend,” collaborates here with his son, a talented photographer, in excavating the layers of legend built into California’s landscapes. Together they expose the bedrock of the past, and the history they uncover is astonishing. Jesse White’s evocative photographs illustrate the sites of Richard’s historical investigations. A vista of Drakes Estero conjures the darkly amusing story of the Drake Navigators Guild and its dubious efforts to establish an Anglo-Saxon heritage for California. The restored Spanish missions of Los Angeles frame another origin story in which California’s native inhabitants, civilized through contact with friars, gift their territories to white settlers. But the history is not so placid. A quiet riverside park in the Tulare Lake Basin belies scenes of horror from when settlers in the 1850s transformed native homelands into American property. Near the lake bed stands a small marker commemorating the Mussel Slough massacre, the culmination of a violent struggle over land titles between local farmers and the Southern Pacific Railroad in the 1870s. Tulare is today a fertile agricultural county, but its population is poor and unhealthy. The California Dream lives elsewhere. The lake itself disappeared when tributary rivers were rerouted to deliver government-subsidized water to big agriculture and cities. But climate change ensures that it will be back—the only question is when.
A Summary Of Hydrologic Data For The Test Case On Acreage Limitation In Tulare Lake
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
A Summary Of Hydrologic Data For The Test Case On Acreage Limitation In Tulare Lake written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Lake hydrology categories.
Trees In Paradise A California History
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Author : Jared Farmer
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2013-10-28
Trees In Paradise A California History written by Jared Farmer and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-28 with History categories.
From roots to canopy, a lush, verdant history of the making of California. California now has more trees than at any time since the late Pleistocene. This green landscape, however, is not the work of nature. It’s the work of history. In the years after the Gold Rush, American settlers remade the California landscape, harnessing nature to their vision of the good life. Horticulturists, boosters, and civic reformers began to "improve" the bare, brown countryside, planting millions of trees to create groves, wooded suburbs, and landscaped cities. They imported the blue-green eucalypts whose tangy fragrance was thought to cure malaria. They built the lucrative "Orange Empire" on the sweet juice and thick skin of the Washington navel, an industrial fruit. They lined their streets with graceful palms to announce that they were not in the Midwest anymore. To the north the majestic coastal redwoods inspired awe and invited exploitation. A resource in the state, the durable heartwood of these timeless giants became infrastructure, transformed by the saw teeth of American enterprise. By 1900 timber firms owned the entire redwood forest; by 1950 they had clear-cut almost all of the old-growth trees. In time California’s new landscape proved to be no paradise: the eucalypts in the Berkeley hills exploded in fire; the orange groves near Riverside froze on cold nights; Los Angeles’s palms harbored rats and dropped heavy fronds on the streets below. Disease, infestation, and development all spelled decline for these nonnative evergreens. In the north, however, a new forest of second-growth redwood took root, nurtured by protective laws and sustainable harvesting. Today there are more California redwoods than there were a century ago. Rich in character and story, Trees in Paradise is a dazzling narrative that offers an insightful, new perspective on the history of the Golden State and the American West.
Report On Floods Central Valley Of California
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Author : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
Report On Floods Central Valley Of California written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Central Valley (Calif.) categories.
Floods And Droughts
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Author : Edmond F. Schulz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
Floods And Droughts written by Edmond F. Schulz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Droughts categories.
Floods And Droughts In The Tulare Lake Basin
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Author : John T. Austin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-01-01
Floods And Droughts In The Tulare Lake Basin written by John T. Austin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-01 with Droughts categories.