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The Rio Grande was ancient long before the first humans reached its banks. These days, the highly regulated river looks nothing like it did to those early settlers. Alternately viewed as a valuable ecosystem and life-sustaining foundation of community welfare or a commodity to be engineered to yield maximum economic benefit, the Rio Grande has brought many advantages to those who live in its valley, but the benefits have come at a price.

This study examines human interactions with the Rio Grande from prehistoric time to the present day and explores what possibilities remain for the desert river. From the perspectives of law, development, tradition, and geology, the authors weigh what has been gained and lost by reining in the Rio Grande.

ISBN-13: 9780826349446

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Publication Date: 07-15-2015

Pages: 296

Product Dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

Fred M. Phillips directs the hydrology program in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. G. Emlen Hall is a professor emeritus in the School of Law at the University of New Mexico. His most recent book is High and Dry: The Texas-New Mexico Struggle for the Pecos River (UNM Press). Mary E. Black has worked as an anthropological linguist, editor/writer, and librarian for the University of Arizona and as an editor of Southwest Hydrology. She currently serves as a liaison with tribes, federal agencies, and scientists.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Prologue: Cochiti Pueblo and a Changing River 1

Chapter I Roots of the Rio Grande in Deep Time 11

Chapter II Early Cultures 23

Chapter III Newcomers to the Land 37

Chapter IV A New U.S. Regime 53

Chapter V The River Pushes Back 67

Chapter VI Conquest of the River by Science and Law 81

Chapter VII Big Dams, Irrigation Districts, and a Compact 103

Chapter VIII Mount Reynolds on the Middle Rio Grande 127

Chapter IX Shifting Values, New Forces on the Rio Grande 145

Chapter X Fulfilling Rio Grande Demands: What Has to Give? 171

Chapter XI The Future of an Old River 197

Notes 205

Bibliography 219

Color Plates Follow Page 144