Traces the history of California from a largely desert area to a region that has become the most populated state in the country in spite of water supply problems and the certainty of devastating earthquakes. Reprint.

Details the achievements of creating a desert civilization and projects on the future problems of limited groundwater reserves, silting up of reservoirs, and contamination of soil (view table of contents)

Reveals how U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agents fight poachers with careful, sometimes dangerous, undercover work and focuses on Dave Hall, an agent who singlehandedly took on the Alaska ivory trade

Reveals how U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agents fight poachers with careful, sometimes dangerous, undercover work and focuses on Dave Hall, an agent who singlehandedly took on the Alaska ivory trade

Overtapped Oasis analyzes the West's water allocation system from top to bottom and offers dozens of revolutionary proposals for increased efficiency and policy reform. Marc Reisner and Sarah Bates argue that the West's underlying problem is not a shortage of water but the inefficient use of it, a problem caused by a bewildering tangle of federal subsidy programs, restrictive state water codes, anachronistic irrigation practices and - perhaps most important - resistance to reform.