River republic : the fall and rise of America's rivers /
Overview: Daniel McCool not only chronicles the history of water development agencies in America and the way in which special interests have abused rather than preserved the country's rivers, he also narrates the second, brighter act in this ongoing story: the surging, grassroots movement to b...
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Green River / William Cullen Bryant
- Map: Selected sites
- Part 1: Fall:
- 1: Crumbling edifice:
- Disjuncture
- Instigators
- Glen
- Water hubris
- 2: Planters, sawyers, and snags: the U S Army Corps of Engineers:
- Building strong
- Not just peanuts
- Rusting rebar
- Big boo-boo
- Under siege
- Invitation
- 3: Manless land: the bureau of reclamation:
- Water science
- Inland empire and the fifty princesses
- Dinosaur
- Dominy
- Sugar city
- Turning the corner
- Blueprint for reform
- Pendulum and the rogue
- Water
- Heritage of conflict
- Part 2: Dismembarment:
- 4: Handout horticulture: farming and the Feds:
- Argo-industrial complex
- Fish traps
- Dying 4 water
- Crops, capitalism, and context
- 5: Falling waters: hydropower and renewable energy:
- Smolts and volts
- Scenic and the sacred
- Bucket of ashes
- 6: Rivers into waterways: barging, locks, and dams:
- Tallstacks
- Cooking the data
- Dinner buckets and party barges
- National duty
- 7: Black water rising: the myth of flood control:
- Storm of Good Friday
- Galloway
- House-a-fire
- Coon-ass
- House of death floats by
- 8: Downstream dilemma: water pollution:
- Toxics run through it
- Song of the Chattahoochee
- Too many federal toilets, not enough senators
- Superfund river
- Pure river of water of life
- Part 3: Resurrection:
- 9: River city: urban riverscapes:
- Belle Isle
- River of the angels
- River of democracy and the emerald necklace
- Great multitude of fish
- Pleasantness of the river
- 10: Net losses: habitat and endangered species:
- Alphabet gumbo
- God bless America
- Ten thousand years of fishing
- Foot deep with fish
- Other side of the river
- Show me the money
- 11: Playground on the move: river recreation:
- Moving-water recreation
- Agents of change
- Lunkers and extreme instant shade
- Water warriors
- 12: River commons:
- Kitty Clyde's sister
- Black-side up
- Katrina syndrome
- Amenity rivers
- Instigators redux
- Lotic dreams
- Notes
- Index.