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The Arid Lands by John Wesley Powell, Wallace Stegner, John Vernon

202 pages first pub 1878 (view editions)

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John Wesley Powell's arid lands report was the first to argue that the American West could not support a conventional system of agriculture and that its lands could not sustain unlimited development. He recognized that water was a more precious re...

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