This book is an account of how water rights were designed as a key part of the state’s largest public water system, the Central Valley Project. Along sixty mi

This is the first comprehensive environmental history of California’s Great Central Valley, where extensive freshwater and tidal wetlands once provided critic

This guide to the wildlife and vegetation of California’s Central Valley and Foothills Regions features more than seven hundred detailed line drawings. Califo

Oildale native, Gerald Haslam, doesn’t like it when folks dismiss the Central Valley as boring and flat. In this collection of essays, he argues that it is Ca

See journals under US Geological survey. Prof. paper 1401-A.