Salt Dreams - Land & Water in Low-Down California Rockhounding California Matt Wilder

Matt Wilder

and how to avoid them - in California and Nevada

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A well documented case study of how not to go about making policy

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Salt Dreams - Land & Water in Low-Down California Rockhounding California Matt WilderIn low places consequences collect, and in all North America you cannot get much lower than the Imperial Valley of southern California, where one town, 186 feet below sea level, calls itself the Lowest Down City in the Western Hemisphere, and where the waters of the Colorado River sustain a billion dollar agricultural industry. The consequences of that industry drain from the valley into the accidentally man made Salton Sea, California's largest lake