Free Delivery Over $100
|
|
|||
|
||||
OverviewRemote, rugged, and spectacularly majestic, with stunning alpine meadows and jagged peaks that soar beyond ten thousand feet, North Cascades National Park is one of the Pacific Northwest's crown jewels. Now, in the first full-length account, Lauren Danner chronicles its creation--just in time for the park's fiftieth anniversary in 2018.The North Cascades range benefited from geographic isolation that shielded its mountains from extensive resource extraction and development. Efforts to establish a park began as early as 1892, but gained traction after World War II as economic affluence sparked national interest in wilderness preservation and growing concerns about the impact of harvesting timber to meet escalating postwar housing demands. As the environmental movement matured, a 1950s Glacier Peak study mobilized conservationists to seek establishment of a national park that prioritized wilderness. Concerned about the National Park Service's policy favoring development for tourism and the United States Forest Service's policy promoting logging in the national forests, conservationists leveraged a changing political environment and the evolving environmental values of the natural resource agencies to achieve the goal of permanent wilderness protection. Their grassroots activism became increasingly sophisticated, eventually leading to the compromise that resulted in the 1968 creation of Washington's magnificent third national park. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lauren DannerPublisher: Washington State University Press Imprint: Washington State University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.517kg ISBN: 9780874223521ISBN 10: 0874223520 Pages: 326 Publication Date: 13 September 2017 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of Contents"Foreword Introduction: ""A Stupendous, Primitive Wilderness"" 1. The Federal Government in the North Cascades, 1892-19402. Conservationists Coalesce around Glacier Peak 3. The Forest Service Stumbles, and Conservationists Debate 4. Glacier Peak Redux 5. A Freshening Political Wind 6. The Peace of the Potomac 7. The National Stage 8. Hearings + Hearings + Politics = Park 9. Managing the Wilderness Crown Jewel 10. Afterword: ""The MountainsAbide"" Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index"ReviewsAn engaging history of the movement to create North Cascades National Park. The story is not as well-known as it deserves to be. --Chris Johnson, historian, National Park Service Captivating from the start and held my interest until the very end. --Wenatchee Outdoors Danner never allows the dance of legislation to get dull, [yet] is a scholar with an eye for detail. --Seattle Post-Intelligencer This is an uplifting story for our times. It is not only scholarly, it is inspiring. --Michael McCloskey, former Pacific Northwest conservation representative and author, Conserving Oregon's Environment: Breakthroughs That Made History With clarity and insight, Danner tells a very complex story of conservation politics. --National Park Traveler Author InformationLauren Danner, PhD, is a writer and historian based in Olympia, Washington. She focuses on public lands policy, Pacific Northwest and environmental history, and outdoor recreation. A former college professor, museum director, and Washington State field coordinator for the Lewis and Clark bicentennial, she now writes at wildernesswithinher.com. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
||||
