| Book Review | Environmental History, 9.2

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Where Land & Water Meet: A Western Landscape Transformed. By Nancy Langston. Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books Series. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003. xiv+230 pp. Photographs, notes, selected bibliography, index. $26.95.
Where Land & Water Meet is a thoughtful journey along the borders between land and water, between the human and the natural. A timely examination of the creation and evolution of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, it coincides with the centennial of the refuge system and more recent conflicts involving the water resources of the Pacific Northwest.	1
Malheur, one of the original fifty-five refuges created by Theodore Roosevelt, is a microcosm for a century of changing land-use practices and evolving conservation ideas. Located in southeastern Oregon, Malheur Lake has been an oasis for waterfowl, humans, and livestock. Beginning in 1872, ranchers and farmers battled for the local land and (more desperately) water, entangling this region's history with Progressive politics and the nascent conservation movement. Drainage and irrigation projects helped make the formerly verdant landscape a dust bowl by the 1930s. It was at this moment that Malheur Refuge was reconstructed from one of the West's great cattle empires into a new empire of ducks.	. . .

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