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  1885 - Royal Commission on Water Supply Irrigation in Western America, First Progress Report. A. Deakin

  A report prepared for the members of the Australian Royal Commission on Water Supply concerning irrigation in Western America as it related to water supply conditions in Australia, including a discussion of the historic irrigation practices on the North America continent, extent of irrigation in the West and various irrigation laws.

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  1976 - Promised Land - A Contemporary Critique of Distribution of Public Land by the United States, Sheldon L. Greene

  This article, originally published in the Ecology Law Quarterly in June 1976, traces the progress of land reform in the management of public lands in the United States. Emphasis was placed on the impact of railroads and the subsidization of irrigation by the federal government on the distribution and use of public lands. The author concluded the article with suggestions for further land reform.

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  1993 - Lands, Laws, and Women - Decisions of the General Land Office, 1881 - 1920, A Preliminary Report, Nancy J. Taniguchi

  Between 4 and 21 percent of the published cases involved women Women's use of law was somewhat overlooked by historians writing about the settlement of the West. The purpose of this study was to begin the tabulation of data in the published Land Office Decisions. The paper sets the material in context, presents the first broad tabulations, suggests some important questions and tentative answers, and brings these useful documents to the attention of other scholars of women in the West. Since the author postulated legal possession as the basis of settlement, the obvious question emerged: How did women fare in disputes over "settling" the West? What were the effects of time and place on their success, defined as more cases won than lost by women? Specifically, during the decades from 1881 to 1920, when and where did women win more often than they lost in disputes over the public domain adjudicated by the General Land Office?

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  1993 - Practice and Procedure before the Interior Board of Land Appeals, David L. Hughs, Administrative Judge, Interior Board of Land Appeals

  This article, originally published in 1993 in the Public Land & Resources Law Review, provides historical perspective on the history relating to public lands in the United States, the organization of the Office of Hearing and Appeals in the U.S. Department of the Interior, description of the Interior Board of Land Appeals and the subject matters over which it has jurisdiction, the scope of IBLA's authority, standard of re view, BLM decisions, and the process for initiating an appeal and procedures to be followed.

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  2005 - Seawater Intrusion Policy Analysis with a Numerical Spatially Heterogeneous Dynamic Optimization Model

  This study develops a general dynamic optimization model that emphasizes the institutional and physical characteristics that differentiate this policy problem from other groundwater extraction problems. The solution of the model exhibits heterogeneous spatial distribution of optimal extraction based on spatially distributed extraction cost, pumping cost externality, and seawater intrusion stock externality. Comparison of model results under alternative management regimes elucidates landowner economic incentives, reveals the potential welfare loss of current state policy, and explains much of the history of the political economy of water in Monterey County.

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  2017 - Monterey County Historical Society - Hornbeck Collection - Microfilm Inventory.pdf

  A collection of microfilm donated to the Monterey County Historical Society by Dr. David Hornbeck dealing with California history, land use, land grants, land patents, ranchos and missions.

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  2017 - Monterey County Historical Society - Hornbeck Collection WPA Notebooks and Folders Inventory.pdf

  A series of notebooks and folders containing information regrading California land grants, patented grants, missions, diseños, expedientes, Mission manuscripts

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  2017 - Surviving Secularization: A Mexican Franciscan in a Changing California, 1833–1851, Damian Bacich

  When the Mexican-born Franciscan priests arrived at several missions in Alta California in 1933, they were not prepared, however, for the situation they would encounter as a result of mission secularization. The missions were in decay having been stripped of both their resources and their native inhabitants. The priests found themselves marginalized in a society in which their Spanish predecessors had been heroes. They had to adapt to a hand-to-mouth existence living the lifestyle of migrant ministers, while wherever possible advocating for the Native rights. California historians were prone to portraying the priests' unorthodox lifestyles as the result of corruption and ignorance. The author takes a closer look at the life of one of these friars, José María Suárez del Real, helps contextualize their choices within the trying circumstances of years of upheaval and uncertainty.

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  2019 - Monterey County Historical Society - Hornbeck Collection - Book Inventory

  Over 1200 books pertaining to, among other things, the history of California, California missions, geography, Spanish and Mexicans in the United States and California, California Indians, U.S. history, computer technology used in mapping, data use and interpretation

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  2019 - Monterey County Historical Society - Hornbeck Collection - Documents and Research Inventory

  Research and documents accumulated by Dr. David Hornbeck throughout his career pertaining to the history of California, the inhabitants, colonization and missions that he donated to the Monterey County Historical Society.

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  2000 - Water Conveyance Systems in California

  This report offers a thematic approach to the identification and evaluation of the major types of water conveyance systems found in California. In the past, canals were not always recognized as a type of cultural resource that might need study. Now there is increased awareness that canals and other water conveyance facilities can be historically significant. However, important water conveyance systems are frequently extensive and sometimes quite complex, while transportation project effects on them are typically limited to a small segment of the entire property. Under these circumstances, developing a basic historical context would allow researchers to work from a baseline of existing knowledge, thereby helping to achieve a suitable balance between the need for sufficient information and expenditure of a reasonable level of effort.

  Because of California’s unique combination of natural resources, climate, topography, history, and development patterns, the state has an assortment of water conveyance systems unlike few if any other states. As a result, little guidance has been developed at a national or regional level, leaving California to develop its own statewide historic context and methodology. This research provides the historic context and survey methodology for the appropriate consideration of water conveyance systems, especially the frequently encountered canals and ditches, in order to take into account the effect of transportation projects on historic water conveyance facilities.

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  2003 - Salinas Valley Sediment Sources

  The Salinas River is listed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Clean Water Act’s ‘303d list’ as being impaired due to ‘sedimentation/siltation.' A plan for management of the total maximum daily load of sediment is thus mandated. This plan was to include an assessment of sediment sources in the Salinas Watershed. The study provided the technical basis for this source analysis, to be used by the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board (CCRWQB) in the development of the Salinas Sediment TMDL.

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  2018 - Groundwater Management in California, Michael Hanemann

  In 2014, the California legislature for the first time took some steps to create a framework for regulating groundwater pumping in over-drafted basins by adopting the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), representing California's first statewide groundwater management planning program. SGMA called for local agencies to develop groundwater sustainability plans within the next five to seven years and then achieve sustainable levels of groundwater extraction by approximately 2040 to 2045. California's prior efforts to regulate groundwater extraction is discussed, as well as groundwater depletion.

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  1997, April 14 – Salinas Valley Water Coalition request to Monterey County Board of Supervisors to deny Tanimura & Antle’s claim for alternative relief filed on March 24, 1997.

  1997 correspondence, claim for alternative relief and supporting declarations and documents, all relating to issues pertaining to the operation of the Nacimiento and San Antonio reservoirs, the conveyance system and the delivery of water to parcels located in the Salinas River Groundwater Basin at the north end of Monterey County, California

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  2014, February 26 – Proposal to Abolish or Limit Water Data Confidentiality to 1-5 Years: Improving Water Resource Management and Increasing Net Water Benefits in the State of California

  A February 26, 2014, submission by Dr. Peter Reinelt to the California State Water Resources Control Board his Proposal to Abolish or Limit Water Data Confidentiality. This proposal provided a conceptual economic framework for a comprehensive review of the economics of water data confidentiality with the goal, in furtherance of both public and private interest, of improving water resource management and increasing net water benefits in the State of California.

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  2017, August - Hornbeck Project's Historical Documents Applied to 21st Century Water Law / Sustainable Water Management in the Salinas Valley [Draft]

  The memorandum examines some of the documents and references found in the CSUMB "Hornbeck Collection" and discusses the significance of the information as it relates to the colonization lands of the Western Hemisphere by the Spanish and the English, and the impact of the different approaches to colonization on the development of California and the historic legal basis for land ownership and water entitlements in California. It suggests how the historic land use and water entitlements of the State can be harmonized with the requirements of the California Sustainable Groundwater Management Act.

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  2017, January - Sharing Groundwater - A Robust Framework and Implementation Roadmap for Sustainable Groundwater Management in California, Working Paper NI WP 17-02, Mike Young and Bryce McAteer

  The working paper offers a framework and roadmap for development of a robust groundwater-sharing system consistent with California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA). The proposed system would draw on global experience. Opportunities would be maximized by a suite of robust local governance, allocation, and administrative arrangements. The proposed system would incentivize innovation, stimulate investment, and facilitate low-cost adjustment to changes in groundwater demand.

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  2017 - Land Use Trends Salinas River Watershed and Groundwater Basin 1771-2015 [DRAFT] by Dr. Peter Reinelt

  Data collated from multiple sources from 1771 through 2015 is used to estimate agricultural land use in the Salinas River Watershed and Groundwater Basin. Institutional responsibility for collecting and maintaining data changed with evolving sovereignty over the region and later with state and county organizational changes. As institutional focus evolved, the type and form of data collected also changed. Therefore, the compiled data often used different units of measurements and have various levels of completeness. Thus, procedures are developed here to collate the data into a consistent form by transforming all cropping data sets to a per acre basis and to resolve any conflicts between data sets overlapping in time.

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  2017 – The Development of the Land Tenure and Water Systems in California and Specifically in the Salinas Valley Groundwater Basin [Draft]

  Beginning with the Aboriginal era through the Spanish, Mexican and United States eras, maps and governmental documents reflect the state of knowledge concerning California (and the Salinas Valley) along with the driving needs and policies that determined how water was used and managed. By examining the maps, it is possible to determine the state of knowledge in Europe (and later in the United States) as it related to the physical and geographical attributes of California prior to colonization and subsequently throughout the Spanish and Mexican periods. Governmental documents provide a window to how land was used and granted during the Spanish and Mexican eras and the patenting process during the United States period. Documents and land use data further reveal the increased use of land and ensuing development and use of water systems in the Salinas Valley Groundwater Basin.