The wildlife resource studies focused on determining effects of the proposed project on game and non-game terrestrial resources and the vegetative and topographic features which comprise their habitat. The objectives of the study were to: (1) characterize wildlife use of the existing environment; (2) assess the potential effects of the proposed project on wildlife; (3) identify possible mitigation measures; and (4) prepare a preliminary estimate of...

Describes the dam and how it was built.

"Carefully leveled text and vibrant photographs introduce early readers the science and engineering behind the Hoover Dam. Includes infographics, an activity, glossary, and index."--

In the scramble to claim water rights in the West during the fevered days of early emigration and expansion, running out of water was rarely a concern, and the dam building fever that transformed the West in the 19th and 20th centuries created a map of the region that may be unsustainable. Throughout the arid American West, metropolitan areas such as Los Angeles, Phoenix, Las Vegas and Denver need water. These cities are growing, but water supplies...

"Tommy Reeves and his pal Red Armstrong make friends with the Mexican people who live near the ranch where they work. Their foreman tells them to stay away from the Mexican girls, but the boys do not heed the warning and are fired. Then they find out that Vinch Cushman, their former employer, is trying to force the Mexican people off their land by damming the creek that supplies their water. When Red goes to sabotage the dam, he is shot dead. Tommy...

One of Frank Waters's most popular novels, People of the Valley takes place high in the Sangre de Cristo mountains where an isolated Spanish-speaking people confront a threatening world of change."Readers who are content to take the primitive and ruthless Maria del Valle on her own terms will treasure her and return to her again and again." --The New York Times"Mr. Waters has created in Old Maria a character of vital and lyrical intensity. His 'people...