Research Catalog

Title

A symbol of wilderness : Echo Park and the American conservation movement / Mark W.T. Harvey ; foreword by William Cronon.

Author

Harvey, Mark W. T. (Mark William Thornton)

Publication

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2000]

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Description

xxviii, 368 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Weyerhaeuser environmental classics

Uniform Title

Weyerhaeuser environmental classics.

Subject

• Nature conservation > United States > History > 20th century
• Dinosaur National Monument (Colo. and Utah) > History
• Echo Park Dam (Colo.) > History

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Originally published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c1994.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-356) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / by William Cronon -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The peculiar past of a national monument -- 2. The seeds of controversy -- 3. Primeval parks and the wilderness movement -- 4. "A mere millpond" -- 5. Searching for an alternate site -- 6. Wilderness for a new generation -- 7. The great evaporation controversy -- 8. The politics of preservation -- 9. A symbol of wilderness -- 10. Triumph for the park system -- 11. Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

ISBN

0295979321 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^99059057^

OCLC

42968048

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library