Works
California’s traditional hydrological system assumes a heavy, reliable snowpack and the timely release of surface water...
Like other crises, the drought offers a view into the institutional and infrastructural relations that are normally not...
Summer 2015 research report, California Coastal Commission Project, Bill Lane Center for the American West
The University of Utah Press has published Bridging the Distance, a book by the Rural West Initiative of the Bill Lane...
We find that the same property will be evaluated more favorably by partisans when they learn that it is situated in a...
Paper Abstract
Water presents a complex challenge to western state governments. Water is scarcer in the West than in...
Our series explores groundwater management in California through new research into key groundwater issues, interactive...
The Bay Area has a long history of preserving its open lands. Today, about one-third of the region is designated as open...
As the climate continues to warm, scientists believe the Bay Area’s microclimates will shift. These maps show how the...
The Stanford historian Bertrand Patenaude, who served as editor for L.W. "Bill" Lane, Jr.'s memoir, The Sun Never Sets...
High energy prices have made advanced drilling technologies profitable, pushing drillbits into parts of the West once...
Most people think of dangerous levels of ozone gas occurring in traffic congested cities like Los Angeles, so it’s a...
"The Sun Never Sets" tells the extraordinary story of L.W. "Bill" Lane, Jr., longtime publisher of Sunset magazine...
Higher prices have a way of grabbing attention, and many communities across Texas are raising rates to pay for new water...
An interactive map of the Sacramento-San Joaquin delta comparing the historical habitat with the present day landscape...
"Real Rural" is the product of a collaboration between writer and photographer Lisa M. Hamilton, the nonprofit...