The Victory Of National Irrigation In The Yakima Valley 1902 1906
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The Victory Of National Irrigation In The Yakima Valley 1902 1906
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Author : Calvin B. Coulter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1951
The Victory Of National Irrigation In The Yakima Valley 1902 1906 written by Calvin B. Coulter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1951 with Irrigation categories.
Harvest Of Plenty
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Author : Christine Pfaff
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Harvest Of Plenty written by Christine Pfaff and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Dams categories.
Rivers Of Empire
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Author : Donald Worster
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1992
Rivers Of Empire written by Donald Worster and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Business & Economics categories.
The American West, blessed with an abundance of earth and sky but cursed with a scarcity of life's most fundamental need, has long dreamed of harnessing all its rivers to produce unlimited wealth and power. In Rivers of Empire, award-winning historian Donald Worster tells the story of this dream and its outcome. He shows how, beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, Mormons were the first attempting to make that dream a reality, damming and diverting rivers to irrigate their land. He follows this intriguing history through the 1930s, when the federal government built hundreds of dams on every major western river, thereby laying the foundation for the cities and farms, money and power of today's West. Yet while these cities have become paradigms of modern American urban centers, and the farms successful high-tech enterprises, Worster reminds us that the costs have been extremely high. Along with the wealth has come massive ecological damage, a redistribution of power to bureaucratic and economic elites, and a class conflict still on the upswing. As a result, the future of this "hydraulic West" is increasingly uncertain, as water continues to be a scarce resource, inadequate to the demand, and declining in quality.
Water And American Government
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Author : Donald J. Pisani
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2002-12-31
Water And American Government written by Donald J. Pisani 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 2002-12-31 with Business & Economics categories.
Donald Pisani's history of perhaps the boldest economic and social program ever undertaken in the United States, shows in fascinating detail how ambitious government programs fall prey to the power of local interest groups and the federal system of governance itself.
Mt Baker Snoqualmie National Forest N F Wenatchee National Forest N F Olympic Cross Cascade Pipeline Project Construct And Operate A Common Carrier Petroleum Pipeline
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Mt Baker Snoqualmie National Forest N F Wenatchee National Forest N F Olympic Cross Cascade Pipeline Project Construct And Operate A Common Carrier Petroleum Pipeline written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with categories.
The Washington Apple
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Author : Amanda L. Van Lanen
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2022-09-29
The Washington Apple written by Amanda L. Van Lanen and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-29 with History categories.
In the nineteenth century, most American farms had a small orchard or at least a few fruit-bearing trees. People grew their own apple trees or purchased apples grown within a few hundred miles of their homes. Nowadays, in contrast, Americans buy mass-produced fruit in supermarkets, and roughly 70 percent of apples come from Washington State. So how did Washington become the leading producer of America’s most popular fruit? In this enlightening book, Amanda L. Van Lanen offers a comprehensive response to this question by tracing the origins, evolution, and environmental consequences of the state’s apple industry. Washington’s success in producing apples was not a happy accident of nature, according to Van Lanen. Apples are not native to Washington, any more than potatoes are to Idaho or peaches to Georgia. In fact, Washington apple farmers were late to the game, lagging their eastern competitors. The author outlines the numerous challenges early Washington entrepreneurs faced in such areas as irrigation, transportation, and labor. Eventually, with crucial help from railroads, Washington farmers transformed themselves into “growers” by embracing new technologies and marketing strategies. By the 1920s, the state’s growers managed not only to innovate the industry but to dominate it. Industrial agriculture has its fair share of problems involving the environment, consumers, and growers themselves. In the quest to create the perfect apple, early growers did not question the long-term environmental effects of chemical sprays. Since the late twentieth century, consumers have increasingly questioned the environmental safety of industrial apple production. Today, as this book reveals, the apple industry continues to evolve in response to shifting consumer demands and accelerating climate change. Yet, through it all, the Washington apple maintains its iconic status as Washington’s most valuable agricultural crop.
Land Divided By Law
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Author : Barbara Leibhardt Wester
language : en
Publisher: Quid Pro Books
Release Date : 2014-11-11
Land Divided By Law written by Barbara Leibhardt Wester and has been published by Quid Pro Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-11 with Law categories.
Wester's environmental history of Yakama and Euro-American cultural interactions during the 19th and early 20th century explores the role of law in both curtailing and promoting rights to subsistence resources within a market economy. Her study, using original source files, case histories, and contemporary writings, particularly describes how the struggle to assert treaty rights both sprang from and impacted the daily lives of the Yakama people. The study is now widely available in this new digital edition (and in paperback), adding a 2014 foreword by Harry Scheiber, professor of law and history at Berkeley. This book, he writes, “is a masterful study of the complex, extended series of confrontations between the native Indian cultures of the Yakima region and the regime of the conquering white nation. Her analysis is based on a blending of materials from rich archival sources and from the literatures of legal history, administrative history, anthropology, ecology, and cultural theory. Most remarkably, the book makes important new contributions to all these fields of scholarship.” "In her remarkable book Land Divided by Law, Barbara Leibhardt Wester eloquently portrays the Yakama Indians of the Columbia River Basin as actors defending a threatened, living landscape from encroachments by settlers. Using federal officials and the courts to advocate for their rights, they reasserted a spiritual heritage of the earth as body, heart, life, and breath. Anyone interested in Native peoples and their interactions with Euro-Americans will want to read this lively, engaging account." —Carolyn Merchant Professor of Environmental History, University of California, Berkeley "This is a remarkable work that brims with insight about the inter-relatedness of nature, work, law, and culture. Wester blends expertise in several different academic disciplines with a superb gift for narrative into her analysis of the Yakama people's defense of their traditional way of life. The book is a testament not only to the skill and resilience of its subjects but also to the power of the author's empathy and respect for them." —Arthur F. McEvoy Associate Dean for Research, and Paul E. Treusch Professor of Law, Southwestern Law School
The Burning Horse
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Author : Thomas H. Heuterman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
The Burning Horse written by Thomas H. Heuterman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.
"In this well-documented account, Heuterman paints American anti-Japanese sentiment during World War II as part of a pervasive exclusionary attitude that had been developing over previous decades". -- Choice
Rufus Woods The Columbia River And The Building Of Modern Washington
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Author : Robert E. Ficken
language : en
Publisher: Washington State University Press
Release Date : 2022-01-24
Rufus Woods The Columbia River And The Building Of Modern Washington written by Robert E. Ficken and has been published by Washington State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-24 with History categories.
Rufus Woods, editor and publisher of the Wenatchee Daily World for more than forty years, has been called the “High Priest of the Columbia River.” From his editorial platform, Woods tirelessly promoted Wenatchee and north central Washington and advocated for Columbia River development. He pegged his brightest hopes on a huge dam to be built in the isolated Grand Coulee region. A founding member of the “Dam University,” Woods--through the World--helped to keep the drive for the structure alive. From 1918 through Grand Coulee’s completion in 1941, he was the leading promoter of the largest dam-building project in American history. Utilizing his newspaper and his extensive political contacts at state and national levels, Woods helped convince President Franklin Roosevelt, Congress, and the Bureau of Reclamation that the grandiose scheme was attainable. Where others despaired, he never faltered. Speaking before the 1942 Grand Coulee High School graduating class, Woods proudly boasted of the accomplishment that he helped see to reality. “So here it stands, a monument to the idea and the power of an idea; a monument to an organization; a monument to cooperation. You, class of 1942, could you come back here in a thousand years hence, you would hear the sojourners talking as they behold this ‘slab of concrete,’ and you would hear them say, ‘Here in 1942, indeed, there once lived a great people.’” Woods got his dam, but not the Wenatchee boom he desired. Possible only because of federal financing, those in control imposed a vast maze of power lines emanating from the dam’s huge hydroelectric plant. Cities like Portland and Seattle benefited from its power much more than Wenatchee. Even so, Woods’s beloved adopted home grew tremendously during his lifetime, and much of that economic development can be attributed to his single-minded efforts.
The Mississippi Valley Historical Review
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1952-06
The Mississippi Valley Historical Review written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1952-06 with Electronic journals categories.