{"id":16863,"date":"2021-10-20T01:29:45","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T01:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=16863"},"modified":"2021-10-19T20:31:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T20:31:00","slug":"hailey-library-to-wrap-up-water-talks-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/20\/hailey-library-to-wrap-up-water-talks-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Hailey Library To Wrap Up Water Talks Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Hailey Public Library will host \u201cMaking the Desert Bloom: The Reclamation Act of 1902,\u201d a virtual talk by historian John Lundin on Thursday, Oct. 21, at 5:30 p.m. It is the last talk in the popular Our Water Series.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Act permanently changed the face of the West by funding massive irrigation projects that \u201creclaimed\u201d arid lands for human use.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cVirtually every green pasture, crop of wheat and field of potatoes from here to Twin Falls, and beyond, exists only because of the passage of the Reclamation Act of 1902,\u201d stated HPL programs and engagement manager Kristin Fletcher. \u201cThis federal law funded far-reaching irrigation projects in 20 arid states of the American West. One scheme, the Minidoka Project, resulted in multiple dams on the Snake River and its tributaries, including the Big and Little Wood rivers, waters which now irrigate more than a million acres of agricultural crops.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lundin is a lawyer, historian and author who splits his time between Seattle and Ketchum. He has written and lectured extensively about Wood River Valley history, inspired by his great-grandparents Matthew and Isabelle Campbell McFall who moved to Bellevue, Idaho, in 1881 and built the McFall Hotel in Shoshone in 1900. Lundin has authored a number of history books over the years, including Skiing Sun Valley: A History from Union Pacific to the Holdings, by History Press.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To attend the event, RSVP to kristin.fletcher@haileypubliclibrary.org.\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hailey Public Library will host \u201cMaking the Desert Bloom: The Reclamation Act of 1902,\u201d a virtual talk by historian John Lundin on Thursday, Oct. 21, at 5:30 p.m. It is the last talk in the popular Our Water Series.\u00a0 The Act permanently changed the face of the West by funding massive irrigation projects that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,5,84,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-community","8":"category-environment-2","9":"category-in-brief","10":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16867,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16863\/revisions\/16867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}