Vision & place : John Wesley Powell & reimagining the Colorado River basin / edited by Jason Robison, Daniel McCool, and Thomas Minckley.
"The Colorado River Basin's importance cannot be overstated. Its living river system supplies water to roughly forty million people in the United States, contains Grand Canyon National Park, Bears Ears National Monument, and wide swaths of other public lands, and encompasses the ancestral...
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| Alternate Title: | Vision and place |
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from JSTOR |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020] |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Charles Wilkinson
- Introduction : the "Great Unknown"
- Communitarianism in western water law & policy : was Powell's vision lost? / Robert Adler
- Common water commonwealth : the paradox of a shared resource / Amorina Lee-Martinez & Patricia Limerick
- Strange resurrection : The fall & rise of John Wesley Powell / Louis S. Warren & Rachel St. John
- Powell's legacy : The Bureau of Reclamation & contemporary West : water exchanges / Robert Glennon
- John Wesley Powell and the national park idea : preserving Colorado River Basin public lands / Robert Keiter
- Who is the "public" on the Colorado River Basin's public lands? / Paul Hirt
- Powell as unwitting godfather of outdoor recreation in the Great Unknown / Emilene Ostlind
- Stewart Udall, John Wesley Powell, and the emergence of a National American Commons / William deBuys
- "We must either protect him or destroy him" / Weston C. McCool & Daniel C. McCool
- "Pastoral and civilized" : water, land, and tribes in the Colorado River Basin / Autumn Bernhardt
- Civilizing public land management in the Colorado River Basin / Daniel Cordalis & Amy Cordalis
- John Wesley Powell's land and water policies & southwestern Native American agricultural practices / William J. Gribb
- Afterword / John C. Schmidt.