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• California Desert Protection Act of 1994 : report together with separate and dissenting views (to accompany H.R. 518) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). ([U.S. G.P.O.], 1994), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
• California Desert Protection Act : hearing before the Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives ... on H.R. 780 ... H.R. 3460 ... part II (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1991), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands (page images at HathiTrust)
• California desert : hearing before the Subcommittee on Public Lands, National Parks, and Forests of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, on S. 21 ... H.R. 2929 ... S. 2393 ... April 29 and 30, 1992. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1992), by National Parks United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Act to Provide for the Designation of Certain Public Lands as Wilderness in the State of Arizona. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1990), by United States (page images at HathiTrust)

• California desert hearing, Ninety-third Congress, second session, on S. 63, February 19, 1974. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1974), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Public Lands (page images at HathiTrust)
• California desert : hearing before the Subcommittee on Public Lands, National Parks, and Forests of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, on S. 21 ... H.R. 2929 ... S. 2393 .... (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1992), by National Parks United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands (page images at HathiTrust)
• California Desert Protection Act and California Public Lands Wilderness Act hearing before the Subcommittee on General Oversight and California Desert Lands of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, first session, on H.R. 2929 ... H.R. 3066 ... hearing held in Washington, DC, September 16, 1991. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1993), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on General Oversight and California Desert Lands (page images at HathiTrust)
• California Desert Protection Act of 1993 : hearing before the Subcommittee on Public Lands, National Parks, and Forests of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, first session, on S. 21, to designate certain lands in the California Desert as wilderness, to establish Death Valley, Joshua Tree, and Mojave national parks, and for other purposes, April 27 and 28, 1993. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1993), by National Parks United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands (page images at HathiTrust)
• California Desert Protection Act of 1994 : report together with separate and dissenting views (to accompany H.R. 518) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). ([U.S. G.P.O.], 1994), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
• California Desert Protection Act of 1989 : hearing before the Subcommittee on Public Lands, National Parks, and Forests of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, first session, on S. 11 ... October 2, 1989. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 1990., 1990), by National Parks United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands (page images at HathiTrust)
• California Desert Protection Act : hearing before the Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives ... on H.R. 780 ... H.R. 3460 ... part II (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1991), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands (page images at HathiTrust)
• California Desert lands : hearing before the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands of the Committee on Natural Resources, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, first session, on H.R. 518 to designate certain lands in the California Desert as wilderness, to establish Death Valley and Joshua Tree national parks, and the Mojave National Monument ... H.R. 880 to withdraw certain federal lands in the state of California for military purposes ... hearing held in Washington, DC, June 15, 1993. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1993), by Forests United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on National Parks (page images at HathiTrust)
• California desert : hearing before the Subcommittee on Public Lands, National Parks, and Forests of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, on S. 21 ... H.R. 2929 ... S. 2393 ... April 29 and 30, 1992. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1992), by National Parks United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands (page images at HathiTrust)
• California Desert Protection Act of 1993 : hearing before the Subcommittee on Public Lands, National Parks, and Forests of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, first session, on S. 21 ... April 27 and 28, 1993. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1993), by National Parks United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands (page images at HathiTrust)

• Utah West Desert Land Exchange Act of 2000 : report (to accompany H.R. 4579). (U.S. G.P.O., 2000), by United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (page images at HathiTrust)

• Relief of Desert Land Entrymen in Arizona : hearings before the United States Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation, Eighty-Fourth Congress, first session, on May 27, 1955. (U.S. G.P.O., 1955), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation (page images at HathiTrust)

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• North Africa and Middle East leader observation tour of land and water resource development, management, and use of arid and semi-arid lands in the western United States, September 1953-January 1954; report. ([Washington, 1954), by United States Bureau of Land Management (page images at HathiTrust)
• The conquest of arid America (Harper & brothers, 1900), by William E. Smythe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Arid lands of Australia (Australian National University Press, 1969), by R. O. Slatyer, Rayden Alfred Perry, and Australian Academy of Science (page images at HathiTrust)
• Native fishes of arid lands : a dwindling resource of the desert Southwest (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, 1991), by John N. Rinne and W. L. Minckley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vegetation responses to grazing, rainfall, site condition, and mesquite control on semidesert range (Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, Forest Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1975), by Dwight R. Cable and S. Clark Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Desert encroachment on arable lands : significance, causes, and control (The Office, 1972), by United States. Agency for International Development. Office of Science and Technology (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reforestation in arid lands (VITA, 1977), by Fred R. Weber, Virginia C. Palmer, and Peace Corps (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• An approach to the remote detection of earth resources in sub-arid lands (National Aeronautics and Space Administration ;, 1968), by Jean Pouquet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on the lands of the arid region of the United States : with a more detailed account of the lands of Utah. With maps (Govt.print.off., 1879), by Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region (U.S.), A. H. Thompson, Willis Drummond, Clarence E. Dutton, Grove Karl Gilbert, and John Wesley Powell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on the climatic and agricultural features and the agricultural practice and needs of the arid regions of the Pacific slope, with notes on Arizona and New Mexico. (Govt. Print. Off., 1882), by Eugene W. Hilgard, T. C. Jones, and Robert W. Furnas (page images at HathiTrust)
• A cumulus convection model applied to thunderstorm rainfall in arid regions (The Hydrologic Engineering Center, Corps of Engineers, US Army, 1970), by D. L. Morgan and Hydrologic Engineering Center (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Analysis of ground and surface water utilization in urbanized arid areas (Center for Water Resources Research, Desert Research Institute, University of Nevada System, 1970), by G. F. Cochran, W. C. Wilson, and J. C. Ohrenschall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Appendix G, the MESA field guide, mapping episodic stream ([Sacramento, Calif.] : California Energy Commission, [2014], 2014), by Kris Vyverberg, Roland H. Brady, California. Department of Fish and Wildlife, Fresno California State University, and California Energy Commission. Energy Research and Development Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• A summary of methods for the collection and analysis of basic hydrologic data for arid regions (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Geological Survey, Water Resources Division, 1971), by S. E. Rantz and Thomas E. Eakin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Progress in the application of landform analysis in studies of semiarid erosion (Washington, 1961), by Stanley Alfred Schumm, R. F. Hadley, and American Association for the Advancement of Science (page images at HathiTrust)

• Soil temperature variations on a semidesert habitat in southern Arizona (Forest Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, 1969), by Dwight R. Cable and Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report of the Special Committee of the United States Senate on the Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands. (Govt. Print. Off., 1890), by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands, Richard J. Hinton, and Geological Survey (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Appendix G, the MESA field guide, mapping episodic stream ([Sacramento, Calif.] : California Energy Commission, [2014], 2014), by Kris Vyverberg, Roland H. Brady, California. Department of Fish and Wildlife, Fresno California State University, and California Energy Commission. Energy Research and Development Division (page images at HathiTrust)

• Aeolian features of southern California : a comparative planetary geology guidebook (Arizona State University ;, 1978), by Ronald Greeley and United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Office of Planetary Geology (page images at HathiTrust)

• Application of geomorphic principles to environmental management in semiarid regions (Colorado Water Resources Research Institute, Colorado State University, 1980), by Stanley Alfred Schumm, Z. B. Begin, and M. T. Bradley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Arid land resource inventories : developing cost-efficient methods = ; an international workshop, November 30-December 6, 1980, La Paz, Mexico - de recursos de tierra aridas : desarrollo de meodos eficientes en Inventarios de recursos de tierra aridas : desarrollo de meodos eficientes en costos (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, 1981), by International Union of Forestry Research Organizations, United States Forest Service, and Mexico) Arid Land Resource Inventories Workshop (1980 : La Paz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings of the Ground-water Detection Workshop, 12-14 January 1982, Vicksburg, Mississippi (Dept. of the Army, Waterways Experiment Station, Corps of Engineers ;, 1984), by Miss.) Ground-water Detection Workshop (1982 : Vicksburg, Elba A. Dardeau, United States Army Corps of Engineers, Belvoir Research and Development Center (U.S.), and U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings of the United States - People's Republic of China Bilateral Symposium on Droughts and Arid-Region Hydrology, September 16-20, 1991, Tucson, Arizona (U.S. Geological Survey ;, 1991), by Ariz.) United States - People's Republic of China Bilateral Symposium on Droughts and Arid-Region Hydrology (1991 : Tucson, W. Y. Tan, W. H. Kirby, China. Shui wen ju, and Geological Survey (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Presented at the AS of ISES Passive Solar Conference : October 19-25, 1980, Amherst, Massachusetts (Solar Energy Research Institute, 1980), by Tad L. Bircher, Mo.) Midwest Research Institute (Kansas City, and Solar Energy Research Institute (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report of the Special Committee of the United States Senate on the Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands. (Govt. Print. Off., 1890), by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands, Richard J. Hinton, and Geological Survey (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report of the Special Committee of the United States Senate on the Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands. (Govt. Print. Off., 1890), by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands, Richard J. Hinton, and Geological Survey (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• A geomorphological and paleoclimatological study of the playas of Iran. ([Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, United States Air Force] :, 1970), by Daniel B. Krinsley and Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Channel and hillslope processes in a semiarid area, New Mexico. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1966), by Luna B. Leopold (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report of the Special Committee of the United States Senate on the Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands. (Govt. Print. Off., 1890), by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands, Richard J. Hinton, and Geological Survey (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• مطالعات جغرافیایی مناطق خشک (in Persian; 2010-) (partial serial archives)

• A Workshop on Desert Processes, September 24-28, 1984--report on the conference (U.S. Geological Survey, 1987), by Ariz.) Workshop on Desert Processes (1984 : Flagstaff, J. N. Rinker, John F. McCauley, and Geological Survey (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Directory of institutions engaged in arid zone research. (Unesco, 1953), by Unesco (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dendroclimatic changes in semiarid America (University of Arizona Press, 1956), by Edmund Schulman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Arid and semiarid land stewardship : a 10-year review of accomplishments and contributions of the International Arid Lands Consortium (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, 2001), by Peter F. Ffolliott and Rocky Mountain Research Station (Fort Collins, Colo.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The role of the National Science Foundation in arid and semi-arid land research (National Science Foundation, 1979), by Yacov Y. Haimes, National Science Foundation (U.S.). Office of Program Analysis, and D.C.) Workshop Report on Arid and Semi-Arid Land Research Needs (1978 : Washington (page images at HathiTrust)

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