No law gives a river a right to exist; at best, laws protect a river from harm caused by new development.
Reed D. Benson
Posted inMay 29, 1995: Politics 101
Change at the top is just a beginning
Dear HCN, Marc Reisner’s recent story explained that some things have changed dramatically at the Bureau of Reclamation. Commissioner Dan Beard has little in common with his dam-building predecessors such as Floyd Dominy. Reisner portrayed Beard – accurately, I think – as someone firmly committed to making Reclamation more responsible to the environment and the […]