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	Cadillac desert - PBS summary
		Mulholland's Dream, the first episode in the four-part CADILLAC DESERT series, tells the incredible story of how the hunt for and the exploitation of water brought the city of Los Angeles to life -- and, literally, life to Los Angeles.
		Whereas the Hopi have lived in the desert for a thousand years on tiny amounts of water, Americans built swimming pools and huge irrigation farms in the desert sun -- with water from the Colorado.
		The CADILLAC DESERT series' fourth and final episode, Last Oasis, offers an eye-opening report on the ways in which water use -- and misuse -- are affecting the daily lives of millions of people in India, China, Mexico, South America, the Mideast, and here at home in Colorado and California.
	www.ldeo.columbia.edu /~martins/hydro/case_studies/cadillac_desert.htm (1675 words)

	WKYU-TV to Air Cadillac Desert
		CADILLAC DESERT PREMIERES SEPT. 7 ON WKYU-TV BOWLING GREEN, Ky. -- It's a story filled with ambitious visionaries, sensational explosions, courageous citizens, devastating floods and droughts, greedy speculators, clandestine bombings, threatened wildlife and triumphs of engineering -- and it all revolves around a substance as elemental as air, a resource more precious than gold: water.
		Cadillac Desert -- Water and the Transformation of Nature, is a new four-part television series premiering Sunday, Sept. 7 at 7 p.m.
		Cadillac Desert chronicles the growth of a thriving civilization in the great American desert, the sometimes violent resistance to this achievement, the fruitful abundance it has brought, and the legacy of profound risk it has created at home and abroad.
	www.wku.edu /NewsAnnounce/News/Archive/august97/desert.htm (732 words)

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		Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water is a history and an examination of the importance of water to the Western United States.
		Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water will be of interest to those who desire a comprehensive understanding of the historical and contemporary water use issues in the Western United States.
		Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water is a lengthy and detailed account of water as a political, economic and cultural issue in the Western United States.
	www.colorado.edu /conflict/full_text_search/AllCRCDocs/reiscadi.htm (536 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Cadillac Desert: Books: Marc Reisner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Cadillac Desert is a weighty history of how the West was won--not with six-guns and lassos, but with steam shovels and cement that moved "water from where it is, and presumably isn't needed, to where it isn't, and presumably is needed".
		California, Marc Reisner writes, was the chief beneficiary of the great hydrological projects that remade the West; transplanted water allowed it to grow to boast a population now larger than Canada's, and to create an economy richer than all but seven nations', a condition not "remotely conceivable within the pre-existing natural order".
		Reisner's careful, thoughtful history of the West's great water projects, with notes on similar projects in Central Asia and the Middle East, is essential reading for students of desert ecology.--Christine Buttery --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Cadillac-Desert-Marc-Reisner/dp/0140178244 (361 words)

	Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water Summary & Essays - Marc Reisner
		His focus on the creation of infrastructure to support Western settlement exposes a history, not of rugged individualism and romantic cowboys, but of the construction of a heavily subsidized and tremendously expensive ‘‘hydraulic society,’’ founded on and maintained by the greed and competitiveness that is behind the American Dream.
		In 1999, Cadillac Desert was placed sixty-first on the Modern Library list of the most notable nonfiction English books of the twentieth century.
		Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water: Introduction
	www.enotes.com /cadillac-desert (398 words)

	CNN.com - Marc Reisner, author of 'Cadillac Desert,' dead at 51 - July 24, 2000
		"Cadillac Desert," an angry indictment of the misuse of water in the West, detailed the damage caused by extensive dam-building, water subsidies and the waste of water resources.
		"Before 'Cadillac Desert,' the general public perception was that dams and water manipulation were an unmitigated good thing," said Michael Sherwood of the Earth Justice Legal Defense Fund.
		He was a consultant to the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations and co-founded the Ricelands Habitat Partnership, which works to promote environmentally friendly agriculture, improve waterfowl habitat and minimize the impact on fisheries caused by water diversions.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/books/news/07/24/obit.reisner.ap/index.html (558 words)

	Bottled Water Web - The Definitive Bottled Water Site
		At the end of the book, the author provides an extensive list of articles and professional papers on the subject of toxic substances and volatile organic compounds in drinking water, especially trichloroethylene.
		Although the Western United States has had rain these past few years, Cadillac Desert shows through a vivid history of water in the west, how it may all be just a mirage.
		The complete 5 tape set from the popular television series which was based on the book (also available further down in the book section).
	www.bottledwaterweb.com /booksandvideos.jsp (1367 words)

	Cadillac Desert
		It was transformed by the Bureau of Reclamation and the Army Corps of Engineers into an Eden by dam building and river water diverting, in some cases from other states.
		Water is being used to irrigate land and support huge populations in desert areas where without water it would not support hardly anything.
		What is irritating about all of it is the money that is being wasted to do it by the government.
	home.insightbb.com /~bookreaderstraverse/cadillac_desert.htm (287 words)

	Mount Desert Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1759, after a century and a half of conflict, British troops triumphed in Quebec, ending French dominion in Acadia.
		The eastern half of the island was granted to Marie Therese de Gregoire, granddaughter of Cadillac.
		Image:Cole Thomas Frenchman Bay Mt. Desert Island 1844.jpg
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mount_Desert_Island (1477 words)

	Collected Works Bookstore - Cadillac Desert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruption and intrigue, of billion dollar battles over water rights, of ecological and economic disaster.
		In Cadillac DesertMarc Reisner writes of the earliest settlers, lured by the promise of paradise, and of the ruthless tactics employed by Los Angles politicians and business interests to ensure the city's growth.
		Based on more than a decade of research Cadillac Desertis a stunning exposé and a dramatic intriguing history of the creation of Eden—an Eden that may only be a mirage.
	www.collectedworksbookstore.com /product.cfm?productID=145599 (200 words)

	Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature. - video recording reviews USA Today (Society for the ...
		Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature.
		Mulholland's agents managed to buy up about 95% of the water rights along the Owens River, promising the local farmers and ranchers that they would be allowed continuous access to the vital liquid.
		Mulholland then had an acqueduct constructed across the Mojave Desert to deliver the water to Los Angeles.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1272/is_n2634_v126/ai_20409146 (606 words)

	Metroactive Arts \| Cadillac Desert
		The new television documentary 'Cadillac Desert' traces the damming of the West
		The book Cadillac Desert is a social history of the politics of water in the United States and the environmental destruction wreaked by dams.
		It is also a history of the Bureau of Reclamation in the Department of the Interior, which undertook some of the biggest public works projects in U.S. history.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/06.19.97/tv-9725.html (839 words)

	Alphabetical list in Everett
		Cadillac Desert chronicles the growth of a thriving civilization in the great American desert, the sometimes violent resistance to this achievement, the abundance it has brought, and the risk it has created at home and abroad.
		Summary: Charts the Colorado River’s 100-year transformation from a wild desert river to the most controlled, litigated, regulated, and over-allocated river in history.
		The program follows the recent trend in which water is diverted away from agriculture and toward cities and wildlife.
	www.everettwa.org /default.aspx?ID=757 (2352 words)

	Videos and Films
		This program explains what a desert is, why it occurs, what kinds of plant and animal life it sustains, and how that life is adapted to—or adapts to—the lack of water.
		The primary focus is on the effects of growing populations in arid or semi-arid regions: lack of vegetation leads to overgrazing, humus mineralizes, rare rainfall creates runoff and washes away the remaining topsoil, the soil becomes hard and impermeable to water, dries out, and becomes infertile.
		The desert of Thar in northwest India is a case study of the problem, with a population of over 10 million plus 20 million cattle.
	www.wiley.com /legacy/college/geocases/cases/case6/videos.html (743 words)

	Waiting for the Big One / 'Cadillac Desert' author devoted his final months to writing a gripping account of the major ...
		"A Dangerous Place" is the last public testament of the late Marc Reisner, whose landmark book "Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water" should continue to shape debate about the West's future for as long as people are fool enough to live here.
		The outlines of two larger books are just visible here: the 500-page "Cadillac Desert," where he dealt with some similar material in greater depth, and the comparably rich version of "A Dangerous Place" that fate kept Reisner from finishing.
		Reisner's sense of the absurd never deserts him, even when he's narrating the aftermath of calamity.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/02/16/RV115007.DTL (988 words)

	Cadillac Desert [4 Pack]
		Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature - Mulholland's Dream
		Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature - Last Oasis
		Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature - An American Nile
	www.djangomusic.com /item_bxmovie.asp?id=S015413 (55 words)

	Case Studies: Cadillac Desert
		Myth and dream, power and money—this landmark public TV series is about all that and more, as seen through the issue of water in the American west.
		Cadillac Desert’s largest single funder, The Ford Foundation, was also its first.
		Ford also provided Cadillac Desert with a separate grant to conduct outreach.
	www.benton.org /publibrary/mtm/Pages/case3.html (223 words)

	Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Ankeny Briefcase is a quarterly that will publish great short stories, and we want to get most of those short stories from new, unpublished writers.
		Portlanders, in particular, are distrustful of Californians, and much of this distrust stems from the rumor that, at one time, ambitious Southern Californians were eyeing the Columbia River and hoping to channel it south to Los Angeles.
		No book describes the ecological ethos of the American Southwest quite as well as "Cadillac Desert", which tells the story of the insatiable thirst of cities like Los Angeles and Phoenix, which were built on land previously uninhabitable.
	www.burnsidewriterscollective.com /book/Cadillac-Desert (271 words)

	Amazon.com: Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition: Books: Marc Reisner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition by Marc Reisner
		Most of the west can naturally support very few people, so the US government has forced civilization upon it through irrigation schemes that are mostly made up of more and more dams built to bigger and bigger proportions.
		In "Cadillac Desert," Marc Reisner tells the story of how the American West destroyed its rivers with unnecessary dams.
	www.amazon.com /Cadillac-Desert-American-Disappearing-Revised/dp/0140178244 (2404 words)

	Cadillac Desert, The American West and Its Disappearing Water - Marc Reisner
		Cadillac Desert, The American West and Its Disappearing Water - Marc Reisner
		A definitive history of water development in the American desert -- and a now-classic chronicle of wrong-headed policies and misadventures controlling the great rivers of the West.
		Originally published in 1986, the book was named by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best works of 20th-century non-fiction.
	www.longitudebooks.com /find/p/13172/mcms.html (94 words)

	"Cadillac Desert" (1997) (mini) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Plot Outline: The amazing transformation of the American Southwest in the 20th century, from desert to oasis.
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	Cadillac desert
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	CADILLAC Automobilia For Sale
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	Books
		It is really incredible that in the short span of time since the late 1800s, almost all of the settlement of the desert West has taken place, along with huge associated water projects.
		In the service of greed and a mania for monumental construction, almost unimaginably vast alterations have been made to the natural environment, with giant dams, water pumped over and through mountains, canals across deserts, good land flooded, bad land irrigated, it's an incredible catalog of man versus nature.
		There was also a 4-part PBS series based primarily on Reisner's book, they called it Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature.
	www.chebucto.ns.ca /~rakerman/books.html (3662 words)

	Powell's Books - Cadillac Desert : the American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised and Updated (Rev 93 Edition) ...
		Powell's Books - Cadillac Desert : the American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised and Updated (Rev 93 Edition) by Marc Reisner
		Cadillac Desert : the American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised and Updated (Rev 93 Edition)
		Cadillac Desert is timely and of national importance.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=65-0140178244-2 (159 words)

	Furdlog » OT: Read Marc Reisner’s Cadillac Desert … (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Cadillac Desert …;' plus the day's entries">OT: Read Marc Reisner’s Cadillac Desert … [10:40 am]
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		This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
	msl1.mit.edu /furdlog/index.php?p=1793 (347 words)

	FYS ideas
		First Year Seminar is designed to prepare entering Trinity University students to evaluate materials, develop critical thinking skills, and develop communication skills both verbally and in written form.
		Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness by Edward Abbey
		We will be reading a significant portion of each of these books, along with selected readings from other sources.
	www.trinity.edu /sbachrac/fys2001 (1273 words)

	Mountainfilm on the Mountain Zone: Cadillac Desert: Mulholland's Dream (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Mountainfilm on the Mountain Zone: Cadillac Desert: Mulholland's Dream
		"Based on years of research, Cadillac Desert is a stunning expose and a dramatic provocative history of the creation of Eden, and Eden that may only be a mirage." -- New York Times Book Review
		So said the critics ten years ago, when Marc Riesner's extraordinary work produced not only a national best seller, but a formidable tool in the hands of those fearing for the sustainability of the American West.
	classic.mountainzone.com /photo/telluride/cadillac.html (223 words)

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