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... and riparian rights, claims established by owning the land through which water flowed. Book Reviews 379 The book points out how these two surface rights intersected, in both hydrological and in legal terms, with overlying rights to groundwater from subterranean aquifers. Finally, to add to the complexity...

..., California water doctrine is torn between two contending principles: prior appropriation, where water rights are determined by initial control of the water s source, and riparian rights, claims established by owning the land through which water flowed. The book points out how these two surface rights...

... to scholars of irrigation history, because it separates the arid West from the riparian rights regime that prevails throughout the eastern united states. under the Colorado doctrine, which was given legal authority by the state supreme court in 1882 and subsequently adopted by several other Western states...

... : University of New Mexico Press , 1993 ); Robert S. Fletcher , “The End of the Open Range in Eastern Montana,” Mississippi Valley Historical Review ( Sept . 1929 ): 188 – 211 . 3. Lorne Fitch et al., Caring for the Green Zone: Riparian Areas and Grazing Management ( Lethbridge...

.... At times, Igler leaves the impression that we would all be better off had the San Joaquin Valley's riparian forests, native grasslands, and abundant wildlife remained unaltered. One also senses a certain empathy for the book's human actors, especially with regard to the unanticipated results of their quest...

... is limited. Nature was not the only force to limit access to abundance. Colten repeatedly shows how cultural instruments controlled space. Native American fishing claims, eighteenth-century riparian rights, or modern policies responsible for enclosing freshwater fisheries to benefit sport anglers all follow...

... allowing both appropriated and riparian rights. Thus, the famous ruling by the supreme Court of California in Lux v. Haggin in 1886 affirming this dual system passes unmentioned. Perhaps the byzantine character of California water rights will constitute the subject of his next book. donald C. jackson...

.... And discussion of the region s largest user of water energy utilities is limited. Nature was not the only force to limit access to abundance. Colten repeatedly shows how cultural instruments controlled space. Native American fishing claims, eighteenth-century riparian rights, or modern policies responsible...

... frequency of demands for the immediate cessation of stock grazing on these lands. Most observers suggest compromises in terms of closer regulation, fencing cattle out of riparian areas, or reduced numbers. Debra Donahue, formerly a wildlife biologist and now associate professor of law at the University...

... urbanization. MacDonnell acknowledges the claims of riparian ecology and other human consumers, but hopes they can be reconciled within the existing system. His answer to the deficiencies of the "prior-appropriation" system combines market-based redistribution of water rights with local "watershed partnerships...

... increases the local biodiversity, extends the riparian zone, and protects the hydraulic integrity of the watershed" (32). Severing water from rural communities in northern New Mexico would, he predicts, destroy communities that have "provided a community safety net for individuals and families in times...

..., fencing cattle out of riparian areas, or reduced numbers. Debra Donahue, formerly a wildlife biologist and now associate professor of law at the University of Wyoming law school, seeks no compromise and gives no quarter. She builds an unrelenting case for the removal of all stock now. She asserts...

... rights that had developed by 1950. As California historians know, California water doctrine is torn between two contending principles: prior appropriation where water rights are determined by early control of the water s source and riparian rights, claims established by owning the land through which...

... for relief.Kansas based its suit on riparian rights, the legal doctrine reserving an undiminished flow ofwater to riparian landowners. Claiming the right to appropriate water within its borders as it saw fit,Colorado invoked state sovereignty in defense of the diversions. Unsatisfied with both states' reasoning...

... many features of the midwestern prai? rie, above all its flatness; its vast grasslands dotted with groves of oak, sycamore, and willows; its rich riparian vegetation; and what appeared to be an abundance of water, not only rivers and streams, but sloughs, swamps, and marshes. Gold Rush emigrants...

... logs, mills at and above Minneapolis, towns, and riparian owners whose land fronted streams. The log dams were crude compared to modern structures and provoked endless criticism. The land surrounding the natural 3. DonaldJ. Pisani,ToReclaima DividedWest:WaterL, aw,andPublicPolicy,1848-1902...

..., Texas, 1951–1957 ( Austin : Surface Water Branch , 1961 ); Gene R. Wilde and Bailey Gaines , “Identification of Refugia Habitat, Faunal Survey of Collection Areas, and Monitoring of Riparian and Stream Habitat and Biotic Communities in the Wichita River Basin, Texas,” Oct. 26 , 2006...

... and distribution ditches, amounted to a dramatic increase of riparian habitat. A ditch, of course, is not a natural watercourse. The reclamation ideal would have been a channel of water without vegetation or animal life; these canals were far from that. The spread of water allowed propagation of water mammals, e.g...

...), 386-87; J.D. Newbold, "Cycles and Spiral of Nutrients," in The Rivers Handbook: Hydrological and Ecological Principles, ed. P. Calow and G. E. Petts, 2 Vols. (Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1992-94), 1:379-408; Robert J.Naiman and Henri D?camps, "The Ecology of Interfaces: Riparian Zones...

... in Arkansas were exploiting 309 Agricultural History Summer loopholes in obscure riparian law to unlawfully harvest timber from lakes that were not and never had been under water. But the most obvious applications, he believed, were in agriculture. As ecologists studied natural environments, they would...