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Greetings from the Salton Sea: Folly and Intervention in the Southern California Landscape, 1905-2005

Greetings from the Salton Sea: Folly and Intervention in the Southern California Landscape, 1905-2005

Greetings from the Salton Sea: Folly and Intervention in the Southern California Landscape, 1905-2005

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Stringfellow, Kim. Greetings from the Salton Sea: Folly and Intervention in the Southern California Landscape, 1905-2005

Center for American Places

2011

Book ID: 89194

Historical and photographic account of the Salton Sea, one of California's most fascinating and complex landscapes, which was formed in the beginning of the 20th century as Colorado River levees broke below the California-Mexico border. After its midcentury heyday as a resort area, the Salton Sea has gone into significant decline due to biological overburdening and massive animal die-offs, leaving is future in question.

152 pp., 45 color, 12 halftone illus. Pap.