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- catalog abstract ""In A Doubtful River, photographers Robert Dawson and Peter Goin and essayist Mary Webb explore the ways the river's multifarious users relate to the region's aridity and the precious waters of the Truckee. Dawson's and Goin's photographs record images of the Truckee's course from pine-clad mountains to the sagebrush-covered vastness of the high desert and the ways the river and the land beside it have been used and reshaped by human needs, greed, and carelessness. Webb's essays offer a verbal counterpoint, focusing on the people who depend on and adjudicate the river's water. Based on interviews and extensive research, the narratives evoke the viewpoints of people whose connections to the river are as direct as that of the Federal Water Master or as tenuous as a Reno housewife trying to maintain a green lawn in the midst of a seven-year drought. The sum of the elements of this book is a memorable picture of the complexity of water allocation in a region where conflicting traditions about the uses of the land and its resources, a rapidly growing population, and limited supply make water the most precious commodity of all."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11932751.
- catalog contributor b11932752.
- catalog contributor b11932753.
- catalog coverage "Truckee River Watershed (Calif. and Nev.)".
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""In A Doubtful River, photographers Robert Dawson and Peter Goin and essayist Mary Webb explore the ways the river's multifarious users relate to the region's aridity and the precious waters of the Truckee. Dawson's and Goin's photographs record images of the Truckee's course from pine-clad mountains to the sagebrush-covered vastness of the high desert and the ways the river and the land beside it have been used and reshaped by human needs, greed, and carelessness. Webb's essays offer a verbal counterpoint, focusing on the people who depend on and adjudicate the river's water.".
- catalog description "Based on interviews and extensive research, the narratives evoke the viewpoints of people whose connections to the river are as direct as that of the Federal Water Master or as tenuous as a Reno housewife trying to maintain a green lawn in the midst of a seven-year drought. The sum of the elements of this book is a memorable picture of the complexity of water allocation in a region where conflicting traditions about the uses of the land and its resources, a rapidly growing population, and limited supply make water the most precious commodity of all."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog extent "xii, 159 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0874173493 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Environmental arts and humanities series".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Reno : University of Nevada Press,".
- catalog spatial "Truckee River Watershed (Calif. and Nev.)".
- catalog subject "333.91/62/0979355 21".
- catalog subject "GB1227.T78 D39 2000".
- catalog subject "Water use Truckee River Watershed (Calif. and Nev.)".
- catalog title "A doubtful river / Robert Dawson, Peter Goin, Mary Webb.".
- catalog type "text".