Managing Scarcity « Weyland Photography

Managing Scarcity

California: Two thirds of the state is a desert, transformed into an agriculture Eden and urban playground by the greatest public engineering works, in scale and number, the world has seen. Consequences of our massive remaking of the landscape include: A stable, domestic food supply, a vast agricultural economy, damned streams, depleted fisheries, and endangered species. This essay, which is still in progress, looks to capture this duality and provide a visual portrait of the various entrenched interests. Also, I am creating a stock archive on the issue. Click here to see over 400 images centered around this topic.

: Automated sprinkler and farm worker, Fresno County, CA.

: Salmon in 'mobile aquarium'. Oroville, CA.

: Slaughtering salmon before harvesting the roe at the Feather River Fish Hatchery. In nature, the fish would die after spawning. September 26, 2009.

: Salmon roe. Oroville, CA.

: Incubating freshly harvested salmon roe, Oroville, CA.

: Crab fisherman, Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco.

: Ken Emigh, Damtender, at the door to Monticello Dam. Solano County, CA.

: Englebright Dam, along the Yuba River in Northern California, December 22, 2010.

: Water released from Lake Berryessa into Putah Creek, Solano County, CA.

: Garret Lopes signals to a crane operator while constructing a new water tank in South Yuba City, CA. August 10, 2010.

: Employees of the Feather River Fish Hatchery. September 26, 2009.

: Early morning sport salmon fisherman on the Sacramento River. Knights Landing, CA.

: Catch basins in Border Fields National Park trap sediment and trash as it flows downhill from Tijuana Canyons, towards the Tijuana River Estuary and the Pacific Ocean. August 18, 2010.

: A tree rises from Indian Valley Reservoir, Lake County CA. November 8, 2009.

: Bart Bartholomeo monitors the IBWC waste-water treatment facility via computers in a small control room. August 18, 2010.

: Curtis Howard unloads Ferrous Chloride, at a waste-water treatment facility near the California/Mexico border. August 18, 2010.

: Pump along Feather River levee, Yuba County, CA.

: Gene Gleeson, ABC7 News in Los Angeles, does a stand-up at the Owens Dry Lake near Bishop, CA. August 5, 2009.

: Pedro Garcia flood irrigates with siphon tubes, Sacramento Delta, CA.

: Corn is irrigated in Fresno County with an overhead-pivot irrigation system.

: Colonia Los Laureles, population approximately 80,000, is a shantytown settlement of mostly factory workers in the steep canyons along the US Border near Tijuana. During winter months, rain washes sediment and trash downhill into the United States and the Pacific Ocean.