Matthew Gallant

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When the Bureau’s dams went up, regulating the rivers and allowing the marshlands to be dried up—about 93 percent of the Central Valley’s original wetlands are gone—it conveniently ignored the economic value of the millions of ducks whose habitat would be ruined. But later, when it became convenient to overvalue their worth, economic alchemy turned them into gold.
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
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