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Edited by Char Miller With a new afterword by the author 2000. 6 x 9 inches. 352 pages. Bibliographical Index. ISBN 0-87071-480-5. Paperback, $29.95. |
Beginning with an exhilarating account of the 1983 Colorado River floods that almost destroyed Glen Canyon Dam and proceeding through recent articles tracking the water quests of Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, Denver, Phoenix, and Tucson, this book provides compelling perspectives on the issues and controversies that have roiled water politics in the West over the past two decades. The tensions between the need for water and society's demands that rivers and their wildlife be restored to health are explored in chapters on the Northwest salmon crisis, Glen Canyon Dam, federal and urban water projects, Native American water rights, watershed restoration, and water management.
Readers will find smart, incisive writings that probe the West's efforts to balance competing needs. The contributors to the book-- among them activists, scholars, scientists, and many of the nation's finest environmental journalists-- offer captivating portrayals of local efforts to solve water conflicts. Together, these stories bring a refreshing focus and clarity to the West's most complex and contentious environmental issue.
About the Author
Char Miller is professor of history at Trinity University. He has written and edited several books, including American
Forests: Nature, Culture, and Politics and Fluid Arguments: Water in the American West. He lives in San
Antonio, Texas.
High Country News, whose masthead reads "A Paper for People Who Care about the West," is published biweekly in Paonia, Colorado.
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