Green River / William Cullen Bryant -- Map : Selected sites -- pt. 1. The fall --
Crumbling edifice: The disjuncture ; Instigators ; The glen --
Water hubris -- Planters, sawyers, and snags : the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: "Building strong ; Not just peanuts ; Rusting rebar ; The big boo-boo ; Under siege ; The invitation --
Manless land : the bureau of reclamation: Watery science ; The inland empire and the fifty princesses ; Dinosaur ; Dominy ; Sugar city ; Turning the corner ; Blueprint for reform ; The pendulum and the rogue ; Water ; Heritage of conflict -- pt. 2. Dismemberment --
Handout horticulture : farming and the Feds: Argo-industrial complex ; Fish traps ; Dying 4 water ; Crops, capitalism, and context --
Falling waters : hydropower and renewable energy: Smolts and volts ; Scenic and the sacred ; Bucket of ashes --
Rivers into waterways : barging, locks, and dams: Tallstacks ; Cooking the data ; Dinner buckets and party barges ; A national duty --
Black water rising : the myth of flood control: Storm of Good Friday ; Galloway ; House-a-fire ; Coon-ass ; House of death floats by --
Downstream dilemma : water pollution: Toxics run through it ; Song of the Chattahoochee ; Too many federal toilets, not enough senators ; Superfund river ; Pure river of water of life -- pt. 3. Resurrection --
River city : urban riverscapes: Belle Isle ; River of the angels ; River of democracy and the Emerald Necklace ; A great multitude of fish ; The pleasantness of the river --
Net losses : habitat and endangered species: Alphabet gumbo ; God bless America ; Ten thousand years of fishing ; A foot deep with fish ; The other side of the river ; Show me the money --
Playground on the move : river recreation: Moving-water recreation ; Agents of change ; Lunkers and extreme instant shade ; Water warriors --
River commons: Kitty Clyde's sister ; Black-side up ; Katrina syndrome ; Amenity rivers ; Instigators redux ; Lotic dreams.