Symbol of Wilderness - Echo Park and the American Conservation Movement

Informationen zum Autor Mark W. T. Harvey is associate professor of history at North Dakota State University in Fargo. Klappentext Harvey details the first major clash between conservationists and developers after World War II, the successful fight to prevent the building of Echo Park Dam. The dam on the Green River was intended to create a recreational lake in northwest Colorado and generate hydroelectric power, but would have flooded picturesque Echo Park Valley and threatened Dinosaur National Monument, straddling the Utah-Colorado border near Wyoming. Zusammenfassung Originally published: Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press! c1994. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by William Cronon Preface Acknowledgments The Peculiar Past of a National Monument The Seeds of Controversy Primeval Parks and the Wilderness Movement "A Mere Millpond" Searching for an Alternate Site Wilderness for a New Generation The Great Evaporation Controversy The Politics of Preservation A Symbol of Wilderness Triumph of the Park System Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Mark W T Harvey, Mark W. T. Harvey, Mark W. T./ Cronon Harvey
• Verlag: University Of Washington Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.09.2015
• EAN: 9780295998589
• ISBN: 978-0-295-99858-9
• Seiten: 400
• Serien: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classics; Weyerhaeuser Environmental Cla; Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books; Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classics; Weyerhaeuser Environmental Cla; Weyerhaeuser Environmental BooksWeyerhaeuser Environmental BooksWeyerhaeuser Environmental BooksWeyerhaeuser Environmental BooksWeyerhaeuser Environmental BooksA Symbol of Wilderness
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