The River Stops Here
Saving Round Valley, A Pivotal Chapter in California’s Water Wars
Paperback Engels 2001 9780520230569Samenvatting
A vivid chapter in the saga of the California water wars, "The River Stops Here" documents state and federal plans to flood the largest, most fertile valley in Mendocino County to send water south to Los Angeles. The eventual success of Richard Wilson, a rancher in Round Valley, to stop the project is the heart of this compelling story.
Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
Map: Water Systems in California
1. In the Wake of the Flood
2. "We Like to Leave a Clean Floor."
3. "Oh Shame, Shame! Where Is Thy Blush ... ?"
4. "As Far as I'm Concerned, They Can Have It."
5. "Go for the Best Deal You Can Get."
6. Timber, Gold, and the Railroad
7. "They Have Stolen the Unearned Increment."
8. Strange Fruit
9. Another Country
10. "Well, I'm Braggin' a Bit Here ... "
11. A Rancher in a Stained Hat
12. An Invitation to Battle
13. Curt Lights Up
14. How the Corps Lost Its Innocence
15. A Flood of Praise and Ridicule
16. Wish-wash at the Courthouse and Hogwash at the Fair
17. Dr. Brown Flies the Eel
18. What Is Wilderness Worth?
19. The Steelhead Jumps and Gardner Delivers
20. Leading Ike to the Water
21. Spring in Round Valley
22. Scuttling Belotti
23. The Brody Bunch
24. And the Maps Came Tumbling Down
25. "Let Me Tell You About Those Fish Guys."
26. Famous Amos and the Doody Report
27. Ike Hits the Roof
28. Ike and Gianelli Fight It Out
29. Reagan Decides ... or Does He?
30. The Aftermath
31. Epilogue
Does the Water Story Ever End? An Afterword
Source Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index
Rubrieken
- advisering
- algemeen management
- coaching en trainen
- communicatie en media
- economie
- financieel management
- inkoop en logistiek
- internet en social media
- it-management / ict
- juridisch
- leiderschap
- marketing
- mens en maatschappij
- non-profit
- ondernemen
- organisatiekunde
- personal finance
- personeelsmanagement
- persoonlijke effectiviteit
- projectmanagement
- psychologie
- reclame en verkoop
- strategisch management
- verandermanagement
- werk en loopbaan
