| Camera Maker | Canon | Camera Model | Canon EOS-1D Mark II N |
| Aperture | f/9 | Color Space | Uncalibrated |
| Exposure Value | 0 EV | Exposure Program | Program |
| Exposure Time | 1/250 sec | Flash | Compulsory Flash |
| Focal Length | 25 mm | ISO | 200 |
| Metering Mode | Pattern | Date/Time | 2007:08:31 13:36:51 |
| Copyright | © 2007 Jason O. Watson. All rights reserved. | Orientation | 1: Normal (0 deg) |
| Resolution Unit | Inch | X Resolution | 72 dots per ResolutionUnit |
| Y Resolution | 72 dots per ResolutionUnit | Compression | Jpeg Compression |
| Exposure Mode | 0 | Keywords | landmark historic marker The Riverton Project travel United States of America America Wyoming historical historical marker tourist attraction travel destination tourism sign historical site roadsign information displayed historic attractions Western settlement Reclamation Service Riverton Project 73 000 acres three dams United States USA US WY history famous highway popular place of interest tourist destination tour tourist attraction destination American day daytime vertical education outdoors outside road roadside nobody no people signs and symbols text letters display Bureau of Reclamation 1920 Midvale Irrigation District water resources cultivation desert waste develop 1902 High Plains early 20th century irrigation Bull Lake Dam south Diversion Dam Pilot Butte Dam east 100 miles canals 300 miles laterals diverts water Wind River Wyoming Canal first dam fish ladder perennial object formidable large-scale reclamation projects legal political issues court battles homesteading Arapaho Shoshone tribes Wind River water 1868 treaty irrigate Fremont County historic marker historic site outdoor sign with text |
| Caption | Wyoming - The Riverton Project - Portions of the High Plains were not settled until the early 20th century because water was needed for irrigation. Responding to pressure for Western settlement. Congress created the Reclamation Service in 1902. Its purpose was to develop water resources making possible cultivation of what was considered desert waste was undertaken by the Bureau of Reclamation in 1920. The Midvale Irrigation District of the Riverton Project involves 73,000 acres, three dams - Bull Lake Dam to the south and Diversion Dam and Pilot Butte Dam to the east, 100 miles of canals and 300 miles of laterals. Diversion Dam, completed in 1923, diverts water from the Wind River to the Wyoming Canal. It is noteworthy as the first dam in the nation with a road incorporated into its structure and the first to contain a fish ladder. Historian T. A. Larson describes the Riverton Irrigation project as "a perennial object lesson in the formidable difficulties inherent in large-scale reclamation projects in the West." Initially posing financial and engineering problems, it came to involve legal and political issues. During the rise of native American self determination the Arapaho and Shoshone tribes exercised their right to Wind River water, granted by an 1868 treaty. Court battles were fought over water used to irrigate land opened to homesteading by Congress in 1905. The struggle highlights the importance of water to the West. |