The most widely known is Cadillac Desert, a critical account of the policy, politics, financing, and engineering behind large-scale government water supply projects in the American West. New York: Viking Penguin, 1986.Ībout the Author: American author Marc Reisner (1948–2000) wrote three notable books about water and natural resources. "A Semidesert with a Desert Heart." Cadillac Desert. Thirty-six great dams on one river and its tributaries-a dam a year. Layfield and Mossyrock dams on the Cowlitz. Merwin Dam, Yale Dam, and Swift Dam on the Lewis River. Dexter, Lookout Point, and Hills Creek dams on the Willamette. Cougar Dam on the South Fork of the McKenzie. Big Cliff, Foster, Green Peter, and Detroit dams on the three forks of the Santiam River. Pelton and Round Butte dams on the Deschutes. Anderson Ranch Dam on the South Fork of the Boise. Dworshak Dam on the North Fork of the Clearwater. Ice Harbor Dam, Lower Monumental Dam, Little Goose Dam, Lower Granite Dam, Oxbow Dam, Hells Canyon Dam, Brownlee Dam, and Palisades Dam on the Snake. Cabinet Gorge and Noxon Rapids dams on the Clark Fork. Albeni Falls and Boundary dams on the Pend Oreille. As they were going up, the Columbia tributaries were also being chinked full of dams. And then,” Mulholland said slowly, with what Albright remembered as a vulpine grin, “and then do you know what I would do? I’d go in there and build a dam from one side of that valley to the other and stop the goddamned waste!”Ĭadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water I would make certain that every American saw them.
I would urge every magazine in the country to print them and tell every gallery and museum to hang them. And then I would print the pictures in thousands of books and send them to every library. And in a year I’d come back, and take their film, and send it out and have it developed and treated by Pathé. In the early summer, when the Merced River roars, I want to see that.’ And then I’d leave them be. I especially want you to photograph the rivers. I want you to capture all the colors, all the waterfalls, all the snow, and all the majesty. I want you to take photographs in every season. I’d build them cabins in Yosemite Valley and pay them something and give them all the film they wanted. Well, then, what I would do, if I were custodian of your park, is I’d hire a dozen of the best photographers in the world.
You know this new photographic process they’ve invented? It’s called Pathé.
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