Reclamation: Managing Water in the West - The Bureau of Reclamation: From Developing to Managing Water, 1945-2000, Volume 2 - Part 1: Hells Canyon, Columbia, Utah, Arizona, Fish versus Dams

During the second half of the twentieth century the Bureau of Reclamation underwent transitions reflected in this volume: From Developing to Managing Water, 1945-2000. Change over time marked these years in Bureau of Reclamation history. Beginning with the turbulent postwar years, Reclamation encountered a new urbanized and industrialized West, with multiple-purpose and competing water needs. Overseas, Reclamation engineers played prominent roles in spreading America's technical expertise to a war-torn world. Projects abroad allowed Reclamation to expand its own horizons at home and view water projects from multiple perspectives. Reclamation engineers and planners focused on entire river basins to achieve greater efficiency in water resource management, to ensure ample supplies of water for agricultural and urban needs, and to maximize hydropower production from Reclamation dams.

VOLUME 2 * COMMISSIONER'S INTRODUCTION * AUTHORS' PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS * SENIOR HISTORIAN'S PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. * CHAPTER 8: RECLAMATION ADJUSTS TO POSTWAR AMERICA * Introduction * Postwar Transitions * Regionalization * Valley Authorities and the Public v. Private Power Debate * Reclamation's Leadership Issue and the 160 Acre Rule * The Transition: From Truman to Eisenhower * Conclusion * CHAPTER 9: RECLAMATION AND THE POSTWAR WORLD, 1945 TO 1969 * Introduction * Reclamation in the World Setting * The Possibilities of China * A World in Need * Where National Interests Directed * Opening the Door to Ceylon (Sri Lanka) * From Denver to Ceylon (Sri Lanka) * Encountering Ceylonese Culture * Reclamation in the Midst of New Foreign Policy Formulations * The Wider World Draws on the Talents of Reclamation * The Commitments Continue * Afghanistan * Southeast Asia * CHAPTER 10: RECLAMATION IN AN ERA OF GUNS AND BUTTER: RIVERS, VALLEYS, AND CANYONS: 1945 TO 1956 * Introduction * The Excess Lands Issue in the Central Valley Project * Hells Canyon and Public Power * Columbia Basin Project: The Irrigation Phase * The Upper Colorado River Storage Project: To Be or Not to Be * The Changing Critique * Conclusion * CHAPTER 11: END OF AN ERA AND NEW BEGINNINGS * Introduction * Construction on the CRSP * Kennedy Administration and a "New Frontier" for Reclamation * Indian Water Rights and the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project * Central Arizona Project and the Pacific Southwest Water Plan * Conclusion * CHAPTER 12: MEETING NEW CHALLENGES, 1956-1980 * Introduction * Finding the Past: Archaeology and Cultural Resources on Reclamation Projects * Getting Our Share: The Central Utah Project * New Lessons: Bureau of Reclamation and the Environmental Movement * Grand Coulee Dam's Third Powerplant * Pacific Northwest-Pacific Southwest Intertie * Teton * Conclusion: Carter's Hit List * CHAPTER 13: A NEW ERA FOR WATER IN THE WEST: BUREAU OF RECLAMATION, 1980-2000 * Introduction * After Teton * 160 acre Limitation and the Family Farm * Water Transfers: From Farms to Cities * Fish versus Dams * Daniel Beard and the "New" Bureau of Reclamation * Conclusion * CHAPTER 14: SELLING RECLAMATION: THE BUREAU OF RECLAMATION IN PHOTOGRAPHS, ART, AND FILM * Introduction * Photography and the Photographers * Large Dams and the "Machine Aesthetic" * Artists and Representations of Reclamation * Films * Alternative Narratives