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The River Stops Here: Saving Round Valley, A Pivotal Chapter in California's Water Wars
by
Ted Simon
A vivid chapter in the saga of the California water wars, The River Stops Here documents state and federal plans to flood the largest, most fertile valley in Mendocino County to send water south to Los Angeles. The eventual success of Richard Wilson, a rancher in Round Valley, to stop the project is the heart of this compelling story.
Paperback, 400 pages
Published
June 1st 2001
by University of California Press
(first published 2001)
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A riveting account of the fight to save Round Valley from being flooded by a dam. I thought this was really well written - lots of facts, but tied together very well so it kept me reading like it was a novel. Brought in many aspects of the history of the west and California and put the whole issue in a much larger perspective.
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