Imperial by William T. Vollmann

Author:William T. Vollmann [Vollmann, William T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 0670020613
Amazon: B00403NG4K
Publisher: Viking Adult
Published: 2009-07-30T07:00:00+00:00

Welcome to the Coachella Valley. Desert scrub is the dominant habitat here, but the influences of nearby agriculture, urbanization and natural and ornamental oases add to the richness of the avifauna.

—Coachella Valley Audubon Society, 1983

What caused Imperial to go wrong?—Well, nothing’s wrong in Coachella! The wildest dreams of men in the first 40 years of this century have been exceeded. The advent of Colorado River water reduced the demand on the underground basin making possible the development of the area above Point Happy into what has become America’s “Golf Capital.” Those words were published in 1968.

At the beginning of the 1940s, Coachella was irrigating sixteen thousand acres. By the end of the sixties, over sixty-six thousand acres had come into production. WATER IS HERE, and so it is only natural that as we peer down upon this whirling world in the year 1975, Coachella Valley leads Riverside County in agricultural income, ringing in $74,657,000! This 1973 aerial view, looking south from Bermuda Dunes Airport toward La Quinta, shows vividly how much open desert has disappeared in the past 27 years. We need have no fear that our lands will not become better and better as the years go by.

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