There have been movements for land rights and formationof states on the basis of language spoken by its people and against deforestation and commercial forestry in Himalayas and big dams.
The cold waters mean a large temperature contrast between the land and ocean -- conditions that favor the formationof a strong inversion layer that traps smog over cities, such as the Los Angeles, Calif.
Prospect Global has much of its 90, 000 acres on the eastern side of the basin with much of it in a checkerboard formation with one tract on state lands next to a private next to a state land etc.