Battling the Inland Sea
Subtitle: Floods, Public Policy, and the Sacramento Valley
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: February 2, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780520214286
Subjects: Applied ecology; Land reclamation & drainage; Management of land & natural resources; Water And Marine Resources Management; Public Policy - General; Flood control; Environmental Engineering & Technology; Environmental Policy; Rivers; Political Science; Environmental Studies; History: American; Technology; USA; History; Environmental Science; Natural Disasters; History / General; Public Policy - Regional Planning; Sacramento Valley; Sacramento Valley (Calif.); California; Economic aspects
First sentence: In Alta California, a quiet and remote province in a far northwestern corner of the Spanish Empire, in the year 1808, a young officer of the Crown, Ensign Gabriel Moraga, led a small exploring party through the maze of bays, islands, and channels which lie easterly of San Francisco Bay, working his way into what was clearly a great delta.