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The fundamental doctrine of Idaho water law — prior appropriation — creates a bad set of incentives in the context of climate change, writes Bryan Clark. Instead of rewarding efficiency, it ...
In Idaho, production agriculture is a $2.8 billion annual industry, 60% of which comes from crops. Almost 70% of the farmed acres are irrigated. The major crops in the state are wheat, hay, barley, and potatoes. Climate change could increase wheat yields by 9-18%. Barley and hay could increase by 12%, and potato yields could fall by 18% under ...
July 1, 2024 at 6:00 AM. Bryan Clark/Idaho Statesman. Last week, a curtailment order that had cut off groundwater irrigation throughout much of central and eastern Idaho was lifted. The order had ...
pluvial lake (a paleolake created by a change in water balance in the basin) Etymology. Benjamin Bonneville. Surface area. ~20,000 sq mi (51,000 km 2) (at max. lake level) Max. depth. over 980 ft (300 m) Lake Bonneville was the largest Late Pleistocene paleolake in the Great Basin of western North America.
July 23, 1980. Map of the Salmon River drainage basin with tributaries. The Salmon River, also known as " The River of No Return ", is a river located in the U.S. state of Idaho in the western United States. It flows for 425 miles (685 km) through central Idaho, draining a rugged, thinly populated watershed of 14,000 square miles (36,000 km 2 ).
Below-ground water levels are changing in response to the shifting uses of land at ground level. ... monitoring wells show 1-foot annual drops in the water level, according to a map provided by ...
Climate of the United States. Köppen climate types of the United States. The climate of the United States varies due to changes in latitude, and a range of geographic features, including mountains and deserts. Generally, on the mainland, the climate of the U.S. becomes warmer the farther south one travels, and drier the farther west, until one ...
Idaho is wintering habitat for one of the largest elk herds in the contiguous United States. “That herd absolutely depends on its ability to migrate back and forth in the Greater Yellowstone ...