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Language: en
Pages: 401
Pages: 401
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-10-27 - Publisher: University of Nevada Press
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Language: en
Pages: 182
Pages: 182
Type: BOOK - Published: 1942 - Publisher:
Description of the water systems in the Central Valley, the effects of floods and droughts, and the dams built to control the water supply. Intended for school
Language: en
Pages: 278
Pages: 278
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher: Univ of California Press
Explores the natural and social history of California's agricultural heartland. This book celebrates the tenacious people of the Valley, where hard work and ing
Language: en
Pages: 577
Pages: 577
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-05-21 - Publisher: Vintage
A vivid, searching journey into California's capture of water and soil—the epic story of a people's defiance of nature and the wonders, and ruin, it has wroug
Language: en
Pages: 440
Pages: 440
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-03-03 - Publisher: University of California Press
This is the first comprehensive environmental history of California’s Great Central Valley, where extensive freshwater and tidal wetlands once provided critic