Public Power, Private Dams - The Hells Canyon High Dam Controversy

Informationen zum Autor Karl Boyd Brooks is associate professor of history and environmental studies at the University of Kansas. Klappentext Karl Boyd Brooks is associate professor of history and environmental studies at the University of Kansas. Zusammenfassung In the years following World War II! federal plans to build a mammoth new dam on the Snake River in Idaho were thwarted by a coalition of irrigators! private-power executives! and state politicians who wanted local control. The unintended result was the preservation of high deserts and mountain rivers from radical change. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword: Why so Important a Story Is so Little Known, by William Cronon Preface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations 1. Introduction: Hells Canyon High Dam and the Postwar Northwest 2. At Hell's Gates 3. Nationalizing Nature: The New Deal Legacy of Snake River Hydropower 4. Taming Rivers and Presidents: The Hells Canyon Controversy Goes National 5. Planning for a Permanent Control: The New Deal Legacy of Northwest Fishery Policy 6. Sacrificing Hells Canyon's Fish: Death by Committee 7. Unplugging the New Deal: Hells Canyon High Dam 8. Claiming the Public Interest: Idaho Power Moves on Hells Canyon 9. Privatizing Hells Canyon: Dwight Eisenhower's Partnership with Idaho Power 10. From Energy to Environment: The Aftermath of Hells Canyon Controversy Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Karl Boyd Brooks, William Cronon
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.02.2009
• EAN: 9780295989129
• ISBN: 978-0-295-98912-9
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Boo; Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books; Weyerhaeuser Environmental Boo
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