1. Introduction -- 2. Historical growth of agriculture and water use -- 3. The role of government -- 4. The past as prologue -- 5. Water use efficiency -- 6. Farm level implications of rising water costs and alternative government policies -- 7. Alternative growth patterns within Cuyo -- 8....

1. Overview : renewable resource trends / Kenneth D. Frederick and Roger A. Sedjo -- 2. Water resources : increasing demand and scarce supplies / Kenneth D. Frederick -- 3. Forest resources : resilient and serviceable / Roger A. Sedjo -- 4. Rangeland resources : changing uses and productivity /...

1. Overview / by Kenneth D. Frederick -- 2. Competition between irrigation and hydropower in the pacific northwest / by Walter R. Butcher and Philip R. Wandschneider, with Norman K. Whittlesey -- 3. Water scarcity and gains from trade in Kern County, California / by H. J. Vaux, Jr. -- 4....

Human activities have resulted in the loss of about half of the original 221 million acres of wetlands in the conterminous 48 states. Federal laws, policies, and programs have had major impacts on the nation's wetland resources. Initially, they encouraged and subsidized the draining and filling...