Cadillac Desert_ The American West and Its Disappearing Water - Marc Reisner [342]
In the 1980s it is striking to read the matter-of-fact tone with which the Pacific Southwest Water Plan and United Western Investigation propose monumental engineering works with staggering environmental consequences, and for what reasons. Both are in the author’s files; they have become extremely difficult to find, though the Interior Department Library in Washington, D.C., ought to have them.
George Sibley’s “The Desert Empire” is the best magazine article on the Southwest since Bernard De Voto’s earlier essays in Harper’s.
Important interviews for this chapter: Helen Ingram, John Leshy, Wesley Steiner, Daniel Dreyfus, David Brower, Jeffrey Ingram, Robert Young, William Martin, C. J. Kuiper, Stanford P. McCasland, William Warne, Myron Holburt, William Gookin, Daniel Beard, Nancy Laney, Robert Witzeman, Frank Welsh, Sam Steiger, Floyd Dominy, Tom Graff, Steven Reynolds, Patrick Dugan, Donald Maughan, Stewart Udall, Wayne Aspinall, Arleigh West.
BOOKS
Brower, David. David R. Brower—Environmental Activist, Publicist, and Prophet. Berkeley: Bancroft Library Oral History Program, University of California, 1980.
Fradkin, Philip L. A River No More. New York: Knopf, 1981.
Gottlieb, Robert, and Peter Wiley, Empires in the Sun. New York: Putnam, 1982.
Hollon, W. Eugene. The Great American Desert, Then and Now. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985.
Holmes, Beatrice Hort. History of Federal Water Resources Programs and Policies, 1961—70. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Agriculture Publication 1379, 1979.
Howe, Charles W., and K. W. Easter. Interbasin Transfers of Water. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1971.
Ingram, Helen M. Patterns of Politics in Water Resource Development. Tucson: University of New Mexico Press, 1969.
Mann, Dean. The Politics of Water in Arizona. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1963.
Ten Rivers in America’s Future. Washington, D.C.: The President’s Water Resources Policy Commission, 1950.
Trimble, M. Arizona: A Panoramic History of a Frontier State. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1977.
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Critical Water Problems Facing the Eleven Western States. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of the Interior, 1975.
U.S. Water Resources Council. The Nation’s Water Resources. Washington, D.C., 1968.
Welsh, Frank. How to Create a Water Crisis. Boulder, Colo.: Johnson, 1985.
ARTICLES
“Agency Mismanagement Responsible for Colorado River Flooding.” Friends of the Earth, June 18, 1983.
“Alarm Over Deep ‘Cracks’ in Arizona.” San Francisco Chronicle, July 4, 1982.
“All You Ever Wanted to Know About the CAP.” Citizens Concerned About the Project (undated).
“Alternative to Orme Could Save Millions.” Phoenix Gazette, June 2, 1979.
Animas-La Plata Project (feasibility data). U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1961.
“Arizonans Pushed Sierra Club Probe.” Phoenix Gazette, July 1, 1966.
“Aspinall Raps Opposition to Project” and “Solon Blasts Detractors.” Albuquerque Journal, November 11, 1966.
“Babbitt Appoints Water ‘Czar.’ ” Arizona Republic, September 16, 1980.
“Battle Against Central Arizona Project Grows.” Rocky Mountain News, March 30, 1966.
Boslough, John. “Rationing a River,” Science 81, June 1981.
Bradley, Richard C. “Attack on Grand Canyon.” The Living Wilderness, Winter 1964—65.
Brooks, Donald. “Testimony of Donald Brooks, Director of Planning, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California” (undated).
Brown, Howard. Memorandum to Senator Paul Fannin, “Wellton-Mohawk,” May 5, 1975.
—. “The Central Arizona Project.” Congressional Research Service, April 20, 1976.
“Build Orme Dam!” Arizona Republic, February 28, 1980.
“CAP Allocation Plan Criticized from All Sides.” Scottsdale Daily Progress, October 28, 1980.
“Captured Flood Water Seen Aiding City Supply.” Phoeniz Gazette, December 16, 1978.
Casserly, J. J. “Andrus Is Maneuvering to