Storm Over Mono: The Mono Lake Battle and the California Water Future
Author John Hart spent five years conducting interviews, attending Water
Board hearings, and tracking down legal maneuvers in
dusty archives. The result is a thoroughly researched,
well balanced, and readable work that covers the history
of the modern day Mono Lake controversy. If you want to
relive the early days of the Mono Lake Committee; answer
those nagging questions about CalTrout II, stream
restoration, and the Water Board process; or just enjoy a
good story of the triumph of grassroots action, this is
the book for you!
--Staff review by Geoff McQuilkin, Executive Director of Operations
Storm Over Mono captures the history and spirit of the fight to save Mono Lake. Author John Hart spent five years researching this well-balanced and thoroughly readable book and he successfully unravels the complex web of Mono Lake litigation and public policy.
Hart also examines the origins of ecological restoration in the Mono Basin and investigates how Mono advocates came to look beyond the losses of the day to recovering the past richness of the ecosystem. All in all, Storm over Mono makes for engrossing reading about a special place and is a must for the bookshelf of any Monophile.
253 pages, 31 color plates, 61 b/w photos, and ten
maps.
Softcover: $29.95 (Item #191); Hardcover: $50.00 (Item
#190)
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The story of the American West is the story of a
relentless quest for a precious resource: water. It is a
tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political
corruption and intrigue, of billion-dollar battles over
water rights, of ecological and economic disaster. Based
on more than ten years of research, Marc Reisner brings
us a stunning expose and a dramatic, intriguing history
of the creation of an Eden - one that may be only a
mirage. New edition.
Softcover, 582 pages, 30 photographs: $15.95.
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Water and Power
William L. Kahrl. The definitive account of L.A.'s water
imperialism, detailed and vividly written. This is the most
comprehensive and objective account of the events leading up to, during,
and since the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s building of
the Los Angeles Aqueduct. It covers the politics, personalities,
construction, opposition, and events leading up to the present situation
in the Owens Valley. Exhaustively researched, this is the history that
the movie "Chinatown" embellishes.
The Mono Basin extension of the aqueduct is briefly mentioned near
the end, but readers should see Storm Over Mono, by
John Hart, for the entire Mono Basin story.
Softcover, 583 pages: $18.95
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Water
and the California Dream: Choices for the New Millennium
By David Carle
Previously titled “Drowning the Dream” and now in
paperback, this provocative book traces
how California’s population growth has been
shaped by imported water and how this growth
has affected the environment and the quality
of life. Written by David Carle who was a State Park
ranger for 18 years at Mono Lake. “This
book belongs in the hands of anyone interested
in California’s history and future.” —Sally
Gaines
Water and the California Dream, Sierra Club
Books, soft cover, 235 pages, 6" x
9" : $16.95 (#5600)
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