Salt Dreams - Land & Water in Low-Down California Rockhounding California Steve Roper

Steve Roper

A well documented case study of how not to go about making policy

Part meditation

as are zoology and botany

160 color photographs illustrate the major habitats and all 88 amphibians and reptiles found in the region

Salt Dreams - Land & Water in Low-Down California Rockhounding California Steve RoperIn low places consequences collect, and in all North America you cannot get much lower than the Imperial Valley of southern California, where one town, 186 feet below sea level, calls itself the Lowest Down City in the Western Hemisphere, and where the waters of the Colorado River sustain a billion dollar agricultural industry. The consequences of that industry drain from the valley into the accidentally man made Salton Sea, California's largest lake