Arcadia
The Watering of California's Central Valley
The agricultural landscape of California was based on a complex system of aqueducts that created the illusion of “normal” climatic variation.
The agricultural landscape of California was based on a complex system of aqueducts that created the illusion of “normal” climatic variation.
Water management can have profound effects upon the landscape.
Efforts to naturalize trout in German Southwest Africa capture German ambitions within its first and only settler colony.
In 1929, the Kondopoga hydroelectric power station was built and resulted in the damming of Lake Girvas and the diversion of the Suna River. This transformation of landscape resulted in the near loss of one of Russia’s foremost nature sites: the Kivach waterfall.