Symbol of Wilderness
Dinosaur National Monument straddles the Utah-Colorado border near Wyoming. It attracted little attention and few visitors until plans to dam the Green River and flood picturesque Echo Park Valley sparked public opposition in the early 1950s. That dam, one of a series proposed by the Bureau of Reclamation, was intended to help regulate the Colorado River, generate hydroelectric power, and create a lake for recreation in northwest Colorado. Echo Park Dam would have threatened part of this...
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Harvey (history, North Dakota State, Fargo) details the first major clash between conservationists and developers after World War II. Echo Park Dam, planned for the Green River to generate power and create a recreational lake, would have flooded the Echo Park Valley and, argued its detractors, threatened Dinosaur National Monument on the Utah-Colorado border. Harvey's study may be seen as part of the history of dams and that history's conjunction with the history and politics of environmentalism. This is a reprint (with a new foreword) of a University of New Mexico Press work published in 1994. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Illustrations & MapsPrefaceAcknowledgments1The Peculiar Past of a National Monument32The Seeds of Controversy233Primeval Parks and the Wilderness Movement514"A Mere Millpond"775Searching for an Alternate Site1296Wilderness for a New Generation1537The Great Evaporation Controversy1818The Politics of Preservation2079A Symbol of Wilderness23510Triumph for the Park System26311Epilogue287Notes303Bibliography345Index357
