River In Ruin
The Story of the Carmel River
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
The thin ribbon of the Carmel River is just thirty-six miles long and no wider in most places than a child can throw a stone. It is the primary water supply for the ever-burgeoning presence of tourists, agriculture, and industry on California’s Monterey Peninsula. It is also one of the top ten endangered rivers in North America. The river’s story, which dramatically unfolds in this book, is an epic tale of exploitation, development, and often unwitting degradation reaching back to the first appearance of Europeans on the pristine peninsula.
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March (Alabama Bound) tackles the tumultuous history of Monterey, Calif.'s Carmel River, which has been declared endangered by the advocacy group American Rivers. It was not until the environmentalism of the 1970s that people realized the river was suffering from erosion, silt deposits, and the dumping of industrial waste. In 1999, a 40-day forest fire in Los Padres National Forest further damaged the river with lye and silt. In the epilogue, March provides a cautiously optimistic look at the river's future.
