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Resumen de Salton sea sos: A battle between nature and engineering plays out in a receding lake bed.

Lisa Owens Viani

  • In this article the author talks about the Colorado River flooded and burst through an irrigation canal, created California's largest inland lake, the Salton Sea, filled what had been the lower basin of prehistoric Lake Cahuilla, which had disappeared hundreds of years earlier. Topics discussed the agricultural runoff has created wetlands that serve as habitat for federally endangered species such as the pupfish and the Yuma clapper rail, and the views of Baumann, a landscape architect, on it.


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