Plagues Pleasures on the Salton Sea
Binding: DVD
Rating: 4.5
Review: 10
Studio: NEW VIDEO GROUP
Studio: New Video Group Release Date: 09/25/2007
Brand: New Video
Manufacturer: NEW VIDEO GROUP
Price: $26.95 USD
Salton Sea Atlas
Binding: Hardcover
Rating: 5.0
Review: 5
Studio: Esri Press
This comprehensive collection of maps and information about the Salton Sea illustrates the environmental, cultural, and ecological processes affecting a rich and complex ecosystem. Diagrams, text, photos, charts, and maps are used to document the social and physical history of the area as well as the current state of the surrounding region. Illustrated through the use of geographic information systems technology are the factors that influence the sea-physical geography, cultural history, and ecology. The limnology of the sea is discussed, and its future is considered. Also provided are 50 maps detailing the sea's geology, environment, and human influences.
Brand: New Video
Manufacturer: Esri Press
Price: $79.95 USD
Greetings from the Salton Sea Folly and Intervention in the Southern California Landscape 19052005 Center for American Places Center Books on American Places
Binding: Hardcover
Rating: 4.0
Review: 1
Studio: Center for American Places
The Salton Sea is a man-made catastrophe, redolent with the smell of algae and decomposing fish. Nevertheless, the lake's vast, placid expanses continue to attract birdwatchers, tourists and artists. In Greetings from the Salton Sea, photographer Kim Stringfellow explores the history of California's largest lake from its disastrous beginningsthe "sea" was formed when Colorado River levees broke and spilled into a depression 280 feet below sea levelto its heyday as a desert paradise in the 1950s and its current state as an environmental battleground. Like the 400-plus species of birds that use the lake as a halfway point in their annual migration, developers flocked to the water too: they planted palm trees, built golf courses, and hired showstoppers such as the Beach Boys to perform at area resorts. These days, politicians seek to redirect the lake's only source of replenishmentagricultural runoff from surrounding farmsto water golf courses and green lawns elsewhere. Greetings from the Salton Sea's photographs capture the war among policymakers, environmentalists, developers, and the individuals still living along the lake's shores. As Stringfellow aptly documents, it is a war for water and, ultimately, for existence. (20050101)
Brand: New Video
Manufacturer: Center for American Places
Price: $25.00 USD
Salt Dreams Land and Water in LowDown California
Binding: Hardcover
Rating: 5.0
Review: 8
Studio: University of New Mexico Press
A Tale of a Magnificent Disaster : I visited the Salton Sea to photograph birds and found it impossible to describe, telling friends they had to go there themselves to experience the place and the people. Now I tell them to read this book. From the creation of the Sea to the creation of Salvation Mountain, deBuys tells it's colorful history in a prose that fills you with the sounds and smells and people of the Sea and Imperial Valley. Anyone with an interest in man's unlimited folly, vision, corruption, and the coming environmental train-wreck in southern California needs to read this book.
Brand: New Video
Manufacturer: University of New Mexico Press
Price: $39.95 USD
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