The existing plans and commitments to reduce water use don’t add up to even half of the savings that are needed to keep the river flowing.
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Long-standing water-use agreements allocate more water than the river and its basin actually contain, forcing users to cut back and face future shortages as well.
An expert in American dialects explains how a ‘health drink’ from the early 1800s spawned so many names and variations.
Solar energy can help grasslands weather droughts in the semi-arid American West.
Thanks to the power of writer Wallace Stegner, Americans have for decades been able to put words to the importance wilderness holds in the nation’s history and imagination.
The themes in the hit television series echo the social and political issues that the state has grappled with for decades.
May 2024 marks the 100th anniversary of the Immigration Act of 1924, which sharply cut the number of people allowed into the US.
The idea of Manifest Destiny inspired Americans to push west, leading to the creation of the first national parks. But those beliefs spelled removal for many Native American groups.
Historical photographs of bison extermination are a window into a history of relationships between humans, bison and the environment.
As with our politics today, geography and race matter in the US criminal justice system. Should they?
Knott’s Berry Farm and others romanticize the state’s past and influence visitors’ sense of history. But their ideology reflects mid-20th-century political conservatism more than settlers’ reality.
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Director of the Kyl Center for Water Policy, ASU Morrison Institute for Public Policy, Arizona State University
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Ph.D. Candidate in History, UMass Amherst
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University
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Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies, Rhodes College
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Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Miami University
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Associate Professor of Law, University of South Carolina
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Associate Professor of History, Colorado State University
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Associate Professor of History, Colorado State University
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Natural Resources and the Environment, Cornell University; Faculty Afffiliate in Ecology, Colorado State University
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Professor of Linguistics, University of Nevada, Reno
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Professor of English and Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs, University of North Dakota