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Paradoxes in Adapting to Droughts: The Rationality of Locality

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Title Paradoxes in Adapting to Droughts: The Rationality of Locality
Creator Downard, Rebakah Kettenring, Karin Neale, Christopher Welsh, Lisa
Description The Bear River flows for 500 miles through a highly variable, snow-driven, drought-prone montane ecosystem in the arid region of the western United States. It traverses three states, is diverted to store water in an ecologically unique natural lake (Bear Lake), and empties into the Great Salt Lake at the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge. People in the Bear River Watershed came to anticipate droughts, building a legal, institutional, and engineered infrastructure to adapt to the watershed's...
Date 2010-04-21T07:00:00Z
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Identifier http://works.bepress.com/karin_kettenring/17
Source Karin Kettenring
Publisher SelectedWorks
Subject Life Sciences Physical Sciences and Mathematics Social and Behavioral Sciences

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