Owens Valley Tragedy

The seemingly unrecoverable landscape of the Earth shows that human interaction with his / her environment and its ecosystem is increasing arrogance and selfishness over and over again. Because of these threats of human development and population growth, the number of important biodiversity lost in the surrounding environment prove these endless claims. This loss of human resources has two forms, direct and indirect. Direct loss is a field necessary for weakening human needs that society and the economy need.

Manzanar lived in Native Americas for the first time nearly 10,000 years ago. Approximately 1500 years ago the area settled by Owens Valley from Owens Lake in the North to the Long Valley in the North, from the Sierra Nevada in the West to the Inyo Mountains, across the Owens Valley. It is east. Other native American countries in the region include West Miwok, West Mono and Tubatulabal, South and East Shoshone, and North Mono Lake Paiute. Owens Valley Paiute hunts in the Manzanar region, collects pine nuts and uses irrigation to grow crops. They also made salt in the summer and autumn and traded brown pottery in Saline Valley to buy and sell other goods and goods to Sierra Nevada.

The Owens River is in the southeastern part of California and is approximately 183 miles in length. It flows into the Owens Valley, a dry basin between the eastern slope of Sierra Nevada and Mount Inio and the west of White Mountain. The river ends in Owens Lake, but since 1913 its flow has drastically decreased, leading to the migration of Los Angeles waterways. In 1904, Fred Eaton and JB Rippin Kott visited Yosemite Valley for family camping trip. They crossed the Sierra Mountains at the Tioga Pass, headed south for bishops for supplies, and finally returned to Los Angeles through Owens Valley. On that trip, Eton took water to the growing city and began planning to make a long-term conflict.

Since 1913, the Owens River was transferred to Los Angeles and caused the destruction of the valley economy. In the 1920s, a large amount of water was carried from the Owens valley and agriculture became difficult. As a result, farmers tried to destroy the waterway in 1924. Los Angeles is dominant and keeps running water. By 1926, Owens Lake at the bottom of the Owens Valley was completely dried up by diversion of water. Water demand in Los Angeles continues to increase. In 1941, Los Angeles moved water previously supplied from Mono Lake in the northern part of the Owens Valley to the waterway. Migratory migratory bird ecosystems are threatened by declining water levels. Between 1979 and 1994, David Gaines and Mono Lake Commission sued Los Angeles. Due to litigation, Los Angeles began to rise to stop water conversion from Mono Lake and support the ecosystem.