Cadillac Desert (99 page)

BOOKS

Bakker, Edna.
An Island Called California.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971.

Berkman, Richard, and W. Kip Viscusi.
Damming the West.
New York: Grossman, 1973.

Caughey, John, and Laree Caughey.
California Heritage.
Itasca, Ill.: F. E. Peacock, 1971.

Chall, Malca.
California Water Issues, 1950—1966.
Berkeley: Bancroft Library Oral History Program, 1981.

Eisen, Jonathan, and David Fine, eds.
Unknown California.
New York: Macmillan, 1985.

Fogelson, Robert.
Fragmented Metropolis.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1967.

Haslam, Gerald, and James Houston.
California Heartland.
Santa Barbara: Capra, 1978.

Hawgood, John A.
America’s Western Frontiers.
New York: Knopf, 1967.

Kahrl, William, ed.
California Water Atlas.
Sacramento: California Department of Water Resources, 1979.

Lavender, David. California. Norton, 1976.

McWilliams, Carey.
California: The Great Exception.
Santa Barbara: Peregrine Smith, 1976.

Nadeau, Remi.
The Water Seekers.
Santa Barbara: Peregrine Smith, 1974.

Rogers, G. L.
A History of the Canal System of the Central California Irrigation District Prior to 1940.
Privately published, 1920; archives of G. M. Bowles.

Taylor, Paul.
Essays on Land, Water, and the Law in California.
New York: Arno,1979.

Treadwell, Edward.
The Cattle King.
Fresno, Calif.: Valley Publishers,1931.

ARTICLES AND REPORTS

Acreage Limitation, Interim Report.
U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., March 1980.

Acreage Limitation Review.
Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation, Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate, April and May 1958.

Allman, T. D. “Jerry Brown: Nothing to Everyone.”
Harper’s,
July 1979.

“Association Notes These Are Difficult Times for Water Development.”
Sacramento Bee,
September 23, 1979.

Baker, George. “An icy reception ahead for the state’s new water plan.”
California Journal,
August 1977.

Barnum, J. D. “What Shall I Say More Than I Have Inferred?” Unpublished monograph, 1969.

“Big Money for Delta Canal Votes.”
Oakland
Tribune, July 13, 1980.

“Bill OK Stops Flow of Funds for Mid-Valley Canal Study.”
Sacramento
Bee, June 20, 1979.

“Billions Urged to Tap North Coast Rivers.”
Los Angeles Times,
March 11, 1965.

“Brown Turnaround.”
Fresno
Bee, November 10, 1977.

“California Canal Plan to Divert River South Stirs a Flood of Protest.”
Wall
Street
Journal,
February 12, 1981.

The California State Water
Project
—
1977 Activities and Future Management
Plans. Department of Water Resources, Sacramento, November 1981.

The California State Water Project
—
1978 Activities and Future Management Plans. Department of Water Resources, Sacramento, November 1979.

The California Water Project in 1964.
Department of Water Resources, Sacramento, June 1964.

“California’s Coming Water Famine.” California Water Resources Association, Burbank, California, September 17, 1979.

Cannon, Lou. “High Dam in the Valley of the Tall Grass.”
Cry California,
Summer 1968.

“City Wants MWD to Stop Overcharging.”
Los Angeles Times,
February 10, 1982.

“Cost of Water Will Eliminate Need for Peripheral Canal.” Working Alliance to Equalize Rates, Los Angeles, April 3, 1980.

Delta Water Facilities.
Department of Water Resources, Sacramento, July 1978.

“Early Obstacle to Water Plan.”
San Francisco Chronicle,
February 15, 1984.

“Environmentalists Split over Water Projects.”
San Francisco Chronicle,
January 23, 1978.

Fact Sheet: Delta Alternatives.
Department of Water Resources, Sacramento (undated internal draft).

“Farmers, Ecologists Argue 160-Acre Limitation.”
San Francisco Examiner,
November 8, 1977.

“Federal Water Limitation Issue Revived in Westlands.”
Sacramento Bee
(undated).

Flaxman, Bruce.
The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California: California’s Billion Dollar Hidden Empire,
June 1978.

—.
The Price of Water: Who Pays and Who Benefits?
Public Policies Studies, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California, May 1976.

Hagan, Robert, and Edwin Roberts.
Energy Requirements of Alternatives in Water Supply, Use, and Conservation: A Preliminary Report.
California Water Resources Center, Davis, December 1975.

How “Firm” Is the “Risk” of a Water Shortage in California—An Important Aspect of the California Water Debate.
Meyer-Sangri Associates, Davis, February, 1982.

“Is the Canal a Disaster for Everybody?”
San Francisco Examiner,
February 10, 1980.

Is There Water for California?
Bank of America Economics Department, San Francisco, September 1955.

“Kern Farms Bloom with State Water.”
Sacramento Bee,
March 20, 1980.

Kirsch, Jonathan. “Politics and Water.”
New West,
September 10, 1979.

Koch, Kathy. “Senate Water-Use Bill Pits Big Firms Against Small Farms.”
Congressional Quarterly,
September 29, 1979.

“Liberalization of Federal Water Subsidy Law Sought.”
Sacramento Bee,
July 3, 1980.

McCabe, Charles. “The 160-Acre Law.”
San Francisco Chronicle.
November 21, 1977.

—. “Reactive Politics.”
San Francisco Chronicle,
November 23, 1977.

—. “Small Is Ugly?”
San Francisco Chronicle,
December 19, 1977.

—. “That Damned Canal.”
San Francisco Chronicle,
1982 (series of four articles).

“MWD Consistently Exaggerates Water Needs.” Contra Costa County Water Agency, California, January 9, 1980.

“MWD Subsidizes Agriculture at Expense of Urban Taxpayer.” Contra Costa County Water Agency, California, December 5, 1980.

“MWD Water Charges Are Highly Inequitable.” Contra Costa County Water Agency, California, December 11, 1980.

“North Coast Program Is Bared.”
Sacramento Bee,
March 11, 1965.

“Offshore Oil May Bring State $1 Billion.”
Los Angeles Times,
March 2, 1962.

“Oil, Water, and Boom: Will They Mix?”
New York Times,
October 28, 1980.

“Overview of Future Water Supply Available to Metropolitan.” Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, Los Angeles, January 4, 1979.

People, Land, Food.
National Land for People, Fresno, November 1977.

“Peripheral Canal Proponents’ Solid Front Starts Crumbling.”
Sacramento
Bee, May 25, 1981.

Phase II: Alternative Courses of Action.
Department of Water Resources, Sacramento, March 1976.

Porgans, Patrick.
The State of the State Water Project.
Red Tape Abatement, Inc., Chico, California.

“Powerful Groups Battle over Peripheral Canal.”
Sacramento
Bee, March 18, 1980.

“Projected Electric Power Costs for the California State Water Project.” Department of Water Resources, March 20, 1980.

“Reclamation History” (three-part series). National Land for People, Fresno, California, 1979.

“Report: Westlands Violates 160-Acre Law.”
Fresno
Bee, November 5, 1977.

Report of Activities of the Department of Water Resources.
Department of Water Resources, Sacramento, February 2, 1980.

Responses to Analysts’ Questions and Comments Prepared by the Staff of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.
Metropolitan Water District, Los Angeles, January 27, 1981.

Review of the Central Valley Project.
U.S. Department of the Interior, Department of Audit and Investigation, Washington, D.C., January 1978.

Robie, Ronald. “Statement on SB 200.” Department of Water Resources, Sacramento, February 27, 1980.

“Santa Barbara Defeats $102 Million Water Issue.”
San Francisco Chronicle,
March 8, 1979.

“Scare Tactics Issue.”
Waterlog,
October 31, 1981.

“Senate OKs $3.4 Billion Water Projects Measure.”
Sacramento Bee,
June 24, 1977.

“Senators Agree to Increase Historic Farm Acreage Limit.”
Sacramento
Bee, June 21, 1979.

“South State Keeps Up Search for Water.”
Sacramento Bee,
April 16, 19$0.

State Water Project—Status of Water Conservation and Water Supply Augmentation Plans.
Department of Water Resources, Sacramento, November 1981.

Stead, Frank M. “California’s Cloaca Maxima.”
Cry California,
Spring 1969.

Storper, Michael, and Richard Walker.
Subsidy and Uncertainty in Financing the State Water Project
(undated).

Taylor, Paul. “Evasion of Federal Acre Limit Laws,” April 1967.

“Ten Farmers Who Astound Experts.”
San Francisco Examiner,
May 6, 1979.

Thomes-Newville and Glenn Reservoir Plans: Engineering Feasibility,
Department of Water Resources, Sacramento, November 1980.

“Top Cash Farm Products in California—1980.”
San Francisco Examiner,
October 4, 1981.

Turner, Kenneth, and Steven Kasower.
Drought in Northern California: Implications for Water Supply Management,
December 1978.

“$23 Billion Tag for Water Project.”
Sacramento
Bee, February 14, 1980.

“U.S. Aides Tread Water over Peripheral Canal.”
Sacramento Bee,
March 16, 1980.

“Valley May Not Need the Water.”
San Francisco Examiner,
January 22, 1978.

Villarejo, Don.
New Lands for Agriculture: The California State Water Project.
California Institute for Rural Studies, Davis, California, 1981.

Vizzard, James L. “The Water Poachers.”
America,
February 13, 1965.

“The War over the Peripheral Canal.”
San Francisco Chronicle,
June 26, 1980.

“Water Crisis in Year 2000?”
Sacramento Bee,
June 9, 1977.

“The Water Miners” (three-part series).
San Francisco Examiner,
March 26-28, 1979.

“Water Plan Leaks.”
Sacramento Bee,
June 29, 1977.

“Westlands Hit in UC Report.”
Fresno
Bee, June 12, 1980.

Westlands Water District, A
Study of the Proposed Contract with the Bureau of Reclamation. Department of Water Resources, Sacramento, September 17, 1975.

Will the Family Farm Survive in America? (Federal Reclamation Policy: Westlands Water District).
Joint Hearings Before the Select Committee on Small Business and the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate, July 17 and July 22, 1975.

Willey, W. R. Z.
Economic and Environmental Aspects of Alternative Investments in California’s Water System.
Environmental Defense Fund, Berkeley, California (undated).

LETTERS, MEMORANDA, MISCELLANEOUS

Dugan, H. P. Blue envelope letter to Commissioner of Reclamation, November 23, 1960.

—. Blue envelope letter to Commissioner of Reclamation, January 30, 1962.

—. Blue envelope memorandum to Commissioner of Reclamation, “Discussion of Region 2 Activities under Secretary Carr,” May 4, 1961.

Frandsen, L., of Southern Pacific Company. Letter to Harvey O. Banks, California Department of Water Resources, and Clyde Spencer, Regional Director of Bureau of Reclamation, October 1, 1956.

Harris, Ellen Stern. Memorandum to Carl Kymla, Metropolitan Water District, “MWD’s Proposed 1979—80 Budget,” June 4, 1979.

Interview between Lawrence W. Swenson and Donald Sandison, Department of Water Resources, and Patrick Porgans, Red Tape Abatement, Inc., August 4, 1981.

Lineweaver, Goodrich W., Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Letter to William E. Warne, Commissioner of Agriculture, State of California, January 20, 1960.