Implementing the Endangered Species Act on the Platte Basin Water Commons

Index

475 Accretion credits, 263 Adaptive management, 85, 86, 155, 170, 177, 182, 219, 234, 315, 357, 362, 364, 367; application to sedimentation issue, 184, 190, 194; applied in Fish and Wildlife Service pulse vision, 309–310; defined, 150–153; defined by negotiators, 372, 376, 377; as incentive 114; securing assistance with, 371–374; struggle for agenda control, 365–366; water provider view, 205–206 Adaptive management working group, 373, 416 Albuquerque, 38 Alcova Dam, 21, 58 Alice and Minatare lakes, 57 Allard, Wayne (senator), 395 Alliance for America, 67 Alva B. Adams tunnel, 40 Ament, Donald (agricultural commissioner), 225–226 American Rivers, 25, 77, 321, 342 Aquifers: Ogallala, 109; South Platte, 96 Aransas Wildlife Refuge, 17–18 Arapaho-Roosevelt National Forest, 42 Arikaree River, 272 Army Corps of Engineers (U.S.), 43, 46; changed mandate, 31; impacts on Missouri River, 25; issued permit for Grayrocks Index Project, 60, 72, 283; struggle on Missouri, 338–342, 344 Ashland, Nebraska, 47 Aspinall, Wayne (congressman), 397 Attorney general (Wyoming), 392 Audubon (conservationist), 17 Audubon Society, 76, 80, 177, 207, 294, 321 Augmentation to offset groundwater depletions , 96–97, 103, 131 Aurora, Colorado, 220 Avian cholera, 21 Babbitt, Bruce (secretary of interior), 68; collaborative approach, 70–71, 72, 79, 82, 402 Bald eagles, 18 Balzac/Cooper gauge, 93–95, 96, 100, 220, 235 Basin Electric Power Cooperative, 60, 61 Benkelman, Nebraska, 272 Big Thompson River, 95, 240 Bijou Creek, 240 Biological opinion(s), 42, 46, 52, 113, 173, 175, 177, 197, 212, 213, 227, 240, 261, 294, 297, 301, 306, 315, 325, 327, 338, 340, 341, 351, 368, 377, 384; as applied to bypass flows, 319, 322; on hydrocycling, 332–333; on Klamath River, 157–158; national politics of, 203, 204; programmatic draft, 356–357; in regulatory process, 32–35, 352–354; In dex 476 struggle at Grayrocks, 60–61, 68, 71, 73, 80, 82; structuring the Platte program analysis, 317; struggle to obtain Nebraska data for, 278–280; supported by National Academy of Sciences, 359–362; and target flows, 84–85 Bismark, North Dakota, 25 Blue River, 40, 45 Board of Control (Wyoming), 395–396 Bonytail chubb, 71 Boulder, Colorado, 95 Boulder Creek, 95 Boyle Engineering Corporation, 106, 318 Bridgeport, Nebraska, 57, 269 Brush, Colorado, 43 Bureau of Land Management, 66, 283 Bureau of Reclamation (See Reclamation, Bureau of) Bush, George H. W. (president), 46, 67 Bush, George W. (president), 115, 292, 299, 396, 341, 370–71; administration of, 157–158, 202–203; Consolidated Natural Resources Act of 2008 signed into law, 396; Nebraska districts take case to Department of Interior in Washington, D.C., 333; won second term, 331 Cache la Poudre River, 70, 84, 95, 100, 158; permitting issue, 42–43; source of peak flows, 240 CALFED. See San Francisco Bay, Sacramento, and San Joaquin Delta Recovery Program California, 47, 56, 157, 289 Carter, James Earl (president), 67 Casper, Wyoming, 57, 62, 73, 127, 131 Casper-Alcova Irrigation District, 256 Caspian sea, 24 Cavitation, 327 Central Colorado Water Conservancy District (CCWCD), 82 Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District (CNPPID), 75, 82, 88, 114, 123, 180, 199, 211, 216, 282, 310, 313, 315, 319, 320, 333, 334; Chinese wall, 374–379, 389; environmental water account, 307–308; and groundwater well users, 111–112, 271–272; hydrocycling, 331–332; operations and federal nexus, 48–49; position on regime of river, 220–221 Channelization of Platte River, 21. See also flows: natural; flows: peak Chapman, Nebraska, 18, 279 Cheesman Canyon, 45 Cheney, Richard (vice president), 370–371 Chesapeake Bay, 24, 198, 288 Cheyenne, Wyoming, 78, 287 Chicago, Illinois, 39 Choke point on North Platte River, 197, 310–313, 315, 316 Citizen Advisory Committee, Nebraska, 115, 117, 121 Civic science, 151 Clean Water Act, 39, 43, 46 Clear Creek, 240 Clinton, William (president), 67, 72, 180, 292; administration of, 139–140 Coalition for Sustainable Resources, 287, 294 Collaborative planning concept, 44, 53, 68–73, 82 Collective goods/property, xx, 5, 6, 408, 420; examples of, 7; destruction of, 7–9 Colorado Agricultural College, 40 Colorado–Big Thompson Project, 40–42, 100 Colorado Division of Wildlife, 106 Colorado pikeminnow, 71 Colorado River, 38, 45, 71, 95, 198, 288 Colorado River Endangered Fish Recovery Program, 71, 72, 233 Colorado Species Conservation Trust Fund, 385 Colorado Water Congress, 103 Columbia River Basin, 150 Columbus, Nebraska, 47, 338 Common property resource(s), xxi, 6–10, 408 Commons, tragedy of, 5–9, 408, 411, 428; mobilizing self-interested actors to transcend , 404, 407–428 Commonwealth, 9, 10 Conservation cropping...