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Irrigation development in Nevada
Collection
Identifier: 91-03
Abstract
Transcript of a speech by an unknown Nevada author analysing the history of water allocation in California and Nevada, the Reclamation Act of 1902 and changes it would make in Nevada state government, and possibilities available through Nevada's Newlands Project.
Dates:
circa 1904
Public Resource Associates Records
Collection
Identifier: 2006-05
Abstract
Records cover the various initiatives, activities, and efforts of both the Public Resource Foundation (1982) and later Public Resource Associates (1988) to effect environmental change on the national and local levels through grassroots planning and lobbying. Materials date from 1919-2012 with the bulk of the material covering the mid-1980s-2012. The major areas of emphasis in this collection are the work to reform the 1872 Mining Law, public lands management, and conservation and...
Dates:
1919-2013; Majority of material found within 1985-2012
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- Black Rock Desert (Nev.) 1
- Carson River (Nev.) 1
- Evans Creek (Reno, Nev.) 1
- Grazing -- Nevada 1
- Irrigation -- Nevada 1
- Land use -- Nevada 1
- Land use -- Planning -- Nevada 1
- Land use -- West (U.S.) 1
- Land use, Rural -- Planning -- Nevada 1
- Mines and mineral resources -- Nevada 1
- Mining law -- Nevada 1
- Natural resources conservation areas -- Nevada 1
- Nature conservation -- Government policy -- Nevada 1
- Public lands -- Nevada 1
- Public lands -- Nevada -- Management 1
- Pyramid Lake (Nev.) 1
- Rangelands 1
- Truckee River (Calif. and Nev.) 1
- Walker Lake (Nev.) 1
- Walker River (Nev.) 1
- Water rights -- California 1
- Water rights -- Nevada 1
- Watershed management -- Truckee River Watershed (Calif. and Nev.) 1
- Wetlands -- Law and legislation -- Nevada -- Reno 1
- Wildlife conservation -- Nevada 1 ∧ less
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- Burning Man (Festival) 1
- Livermore, John Sealy, 1918-2013 1
- Lynn, Susan, 1945- 1
- Nevada State Multiple Use Advisory Committee 1
- Newlands Project (U.S.) 1
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