Abstract
Aridity, and aridity alone, makes the various Wests one. The distinctive western plants and animals, the hard clarity (before power plants and metropolitan traffic altered it) of the western air, the look and location of western towns, the empty spaces that separate them, the way farms and ranches are either densely concentrated where water is plentiful or widely scattered where it is scarce, . . . [the] noticeable federal presence as dam builder and water broker, … those are all consequences, and by no means all the consequences, of aridity.
Recommended Citation
Jason L. DeForest,
Lawrence v. Clark County and Nevada's Public Trust Doctrine: Reconsidering Water Rights in the Desert,
13
Nev. L.J.
290
(2012).
Available at:
https://scholars.law.unlv.edu/nlj/vol13/iss1/9