[PDF.50if] Battling the Inland Sea: American Political Culture, Public Policy, and the Sacramento Valley, 1850-1986

Battling the Inland Sea: American Political Culture, Public Policy, and the Sacramento Valley, 1850-1986

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 | #2361447 in Books |  1989-06-13 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.50 x6.50 x1.25l, | File type: PDF | 395 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Deep understanding|By Glenn Gebhardt|A masterful work. This book provides a lifetime of understanding the power of nature versus the arrogance of man. The History of California flood control is presented with its good intentions, and it's disastrous failures.|From the Back Cover|"Of late historians have become increasingly interested in the vast re-ordering of the environment involved in the creation of America. Nowhere was this more true than in the Sacramento Valley where re-ordering edged into folly. Battling t

In its natural condition the Sacramento Valley flooded annually and an inland sea formed during the rainy season, draining slowly away by the summer months. The effort to control the flooding and exploit the rich valley for agriculture has resulted in an intricate, thousand-mile system of levees and drains. Robert Kelley documents and analyzes the process and the widely-diverging ideas about how best to reclaim the Valley from flood -- a process equally relevant to river...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Battling the Inland Sea: American Political Culture, Public Policy, and the Sacramento Valley, 1850-1986   |  Robert Kelley. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.

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