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It would be not an administrative feat but a psychological one, an attempt to check, in John McPhee’s words, “the powerful fabric of ambition that impelled people to build towns and cities where almost any camper would be loath to pitch a tent.”
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/22/magazine/california-dams.html
That is the McPhee’s, Walstrom’s, and the Walgenbach’s.