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A Case Study in Interstate Resource Management: The California-Nevada Water Controversy, 1865-1955
A Case Study in Interstate Resource Management: The California-Nevada Water Controversy, 1865-1955
University of California at Davis (UC Davis) | May 1, 1973...SummaryView DocumentBecome a member to access this feature
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A Measure of Snow: A Report Based on Case Studies of The Snow Survey and Water Supply Forecasting Program
A Measure of Snow: A Report Based on Case Studies of The Snow Survey and Water Supply Forecasting Program
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Natural Resources Conservation Service | November 1, 2008...SummarySnow depth and snow water content data have been collected and disseminated throughout the Western United States for over 100 years. Early snow survey and...
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A rationale for effective post-fire debris flow mitigation within forested terrain
A rationale for effective post-fire debris flow mitigation within forested terrain
Geoenvironmental Disasters, Springer | May 25, 2018...SummaryWatersheds recently burned by wildfires are recognized as having an increased susceptibility to debris flow occurrence. The great majority occur within the first 2...
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A study of methods to estimate debris flow velocity
A study of methods to estimate debris flow velocity
Landslides, Springer | September 16, 2019...SummaryDebris flow velocities are commonly back-calculated from superelevation events which require subjective estimates of radii of curvature of bends in the debris flow...
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Anthropogenic Warming Impacts on Today’s Sierra Nevada Snowpack and Flood Risk
Anthropogenic Warming Impacts on Today’s Sierra Nevada Snowpack and Flood Risk
American Geophysical Union (AGU) | June 15, 2018...SummaryThis study investigates temperature impacts to snowpack and runoff‐driven flood risk over the Sierra Nevada during the extremely wet year of 2016–2017, which...
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Attribution of declining western U.S. snowpack to human effects
Attribution of declining western U.S. snowpack to human effects
American Meteorological Society (AMS) | December 1, 2008...SummaryObservations show snowpack has declined across much of the western United States over the period 1950–99. This reduction has important social and economic...
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California forest die-off linked to multi-year deep soil drying in 2012–2015 drought
California forest die-off linked to multi-year deep soil drying in 2012–2015 drought
Nature Geoscience | July 1, 2019...SummaryWidespread episodes of recent forest die-off have been tied to the occurrence of anomalously warm droughts, although the underlying mechanisms remain inadequately understood....
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California Hydraulic Mining under the Caminetti Act
California Hydraulic Mining under the Caminetti Act
Scientific American | July 21, 1900...SummaryThe gold deposits of California are, for a large part, contained in gravel beds once the channel of rivers which formed the drainage...
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California Water Plan 2013: Mountain Counties Regional Report
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California Department of Water Resources (DWR) | October 30, 2014...SummaryAs the State works to solve the water crisis in California, the potential for redirected impacts in the Mountain Counties Area is acute....
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California’s Water: Protecting Headwaters
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Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) | October 1, 2016...SummaryMountainous regions provide most of the state’s water supply. But major problems loom— from a growing risk of wildfires to a shrinking snowpack....
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