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Vision and place John Wesley Powell and reimagining the Colorado River basin

Title: Vision and place [electronic resource] : John Wesley Powell and reimagining the Colorado River basin / edited by Jason Robison, Daniel McCool, Thomas Minckley.
Publication: Oakland : University of California Press, [2020]

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"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 homes of twenty-nine Native American tribes. John Wesley Powell, a one-armed Civil War veteran, explorer, scientist, and adept federal administrator, articulated a vision for Euro-American colonization of the 'Arid Lands' that has indelibly shaped the basin--a pattern that looms large not only in western history, but also in contemporary environmental and social policy. One hundred and fifty years after Powell's epic 1869 Colorado River Exploring Expedition, this volume revisits Powell's vision, considering both its historical character and its relative influence on the Colorado River Basin's cultural and physical landscape in modern times. In three parts, the volume unpacks Powell's ideas on water, public lands, and Native Americans--ideas at once innovative, complex, and contradictory. And with an eye toward climate change and a host of related challenges currently facing the basin, the volume turns to the future, reflecting on how--if at all--Powell's legacy can inform our collective vision as we navigate a new 'Great Unknown.'"--

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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.

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2020007540

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Vision and place [electronic resource] : John Wesley Powell and reimagining the Colorado River basin / edited by Jason Robison, Daniel McCool, Thomas Minckley.

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