Rising at 11,750 feet in the Sangre de Cristo range and snaking 926 miles through New Mexico and Texas to the Rio Grande, the Pecos River is one of the most storied waterways in the American West. It is also one of the most troubled. In 1942, the National Resources Planning Board observed that the Pecos River basin "probably presents a greater aggregation of problems associated with land and water use than any other irrigated basin in the Western U.S." In the twentyfirst century, the rivers problems have only multiplied. Bitter Waters, the first booklength study of the entire Pecos, traces the rivers environmental history from the arrival of the first Europeans in the sixteenth century to today.Running clear at its source and turning salty in its middle reach, the Pecos River has served as both a magnet of veneration and an object of scorn. Patrick Dearen, who has written about the Pecos since the 1980s, draws on more than 150 interviews and a wealth of primary sources to trace the rivers natural evolution and mans interaction with it. Irrigation projects, dams, invasive saltcedar, forest proliferation, fires, floods, flow decline, usage conflicts, water quality deteriorationDearen offers a thorough and clearly written account of what each factor has meant to the river and its prospects. As finegrained in detail as it is sweeping in breadth, the picture Bitter Waters presents is sobering but not without hope, as it also extends to potential solutions to the Pecos Rivers...

Binding: Hardcover;256 pages; Publisher: Longleaf Services on behalf of University of Oklah; Classification: N/A; Weight: 668.39 g; Dimensions: N/A

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