Contents
Figures and Maps
Tables
Acronyms
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part 1: Introduction
1: Problem and Significance
2: Change on the River
Part 2: Social Construction of the Crisis
3: Into a Federal Nexus
4: Colorado in a Federal Nexus
5: Nebraska in a Federal Nexus
6: Wyoming in a Federal Nexus
Part 3: Initiating Negotiations
7: Options
8: Organization of Negotiations
Part 4: Negotiating Interests
9: Colorado’s Interests
10: Nebraska’s Interests
11: Wyoming’s Interests
12: States, Federal Agencies, and the Water Plan
Part 5: Politics and the Roles of Science
13: Defining Success
14: Science as Justification for Sacrifice
15: Science as Faith:Negotiating an Adaptive Management Deal for Terrestrial Habitat
16: Science as Faith: Putting Adaptive Management to Its First Test with
17: Scent of Victory and Impasse
Part 6: Reaching Sufficiency
18: Negotiating Context, 2000–2006
19: Regime of the River: Colorado and Nebraska Nightmares
20: Regime of the River—Sharing Peak Flows
21: Regime of the River; Wyoming and Nebraska Address New Depletions
22: Regime of the River: Nebraska Confronts Its History
23: Regime of the River—Building a Federal Depletions Plan
24: Regime of the River: Inserting Pulse Flows
25: Locked into an Awful Dance
26: The Pallid Sturgeon Habitat Gamble
Part 7: Reaching Sufficiency
27: Wielding the Regulatory Hammer
28: Adaptive Management
Part 8: Conclusions
29: Search for Approval
30: Policy Implications
31: Theory Implications
Appendix A: Appreciation
Appendix B: Theory and Methods
Appendix C: Governance Committee
Appendix D: Program Milestones
Appendix F: Program Budget
Appendix G: Photo Gallery
Appendix H: Chronology
References
Index