Crown jewel wilderness: creating North Cascades National Park

Title Crown jewel wilderness: creating North Cascades National Park
Names Danner, Lauren.
Book Number DBC06984
Title Status Active
Medium Digital Books
Annotation The creation of the North Cascades National Park complex was the result of decades of local activism and compromise by conservationists and other stakeholders. This book describes the motives and strategies used by stakeholders as plans for the park and related areas were developed. Adult. Unrated.
General Notes Available from BARD courtesy of the Washington Talking Book and Braille Library.
Local Notes North Cascades National Park is remote, rugged, and spectacularly majestic. Efforts to establish a park gained traction after World War II, as national interest in wilderness preservation and concerns about the impact of harvesting timber grew. Troubled by 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. Their activism eventually led to the 1968 creation of a crown jewel--Washington's magnificent third national park. This engaging account tells the story.
Narrator Osowski, Amy.
Length 17 hours, 41 minutes
Local Subject Northwest nonfiction - NW2
Northwest history - NW8
Adult book - AD
Nonfiction - NF
Nature and the environment - SC13
U.S. History - HI1
Produced at WTBBL - PAW
LC Subject North Cascades National Park (Wash.) - History
Nonfiction
Audience Notes A NLS/BPH
Call Number 979.773 ANF
Language English
Contents Introduction: "A stupendous, primitive wilderness" -- The federal government in the North Cascades, 1892-1940 -- Conservationists coalesce around Glacier Peak -- The Forest Service stumbles, and conservationists debate -- Glacier Peak redux -- A freshening political wind -- The peace of the Potomac -- On the national stage -- Hearings + hearings + politics = park -- Managing the wilderness crown jewel -- Afterword: "The mountains abide."
Released 2017
Publication Info Seattle : Washington State University Press 2017
Original Publication Recorded from: Pullman, Washington : Washington State University Press, [2017] 9780874223521
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