Voyageurs National Park
Subtitle: The Battle to Create Minnesota's National Park
Contributors: Elmer L. Andersen (Foreword)
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: April 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780816640508
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; Nature; History; History - U.S.; Voyageurs National Park (Minn.); Nature/Ecology; Minnesota; General; United States - State & Local - General; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Voyageurs National Park (Minn
Description: "When President Nixon signed the legislation authorizing the establishment of Voyageurs National Park on January 8, 1971, almost eighty years had passed since Minnesota's government initially petitioned to create a national park in the northern portion of the state." "Voyageurs National Park chronicles the complex legal and political campaign to found Minnesota's only national park. Concentrating on the period from 1962 to 1975, Witzig identifies and explains the central issues surrounding the campaign, including land acquisition policy, local concerns and opposition to the park, interagency conflict over U.S. forest lands, antifederal attitudes in northeastern Minnesota, and the overstated case for the economic benefits a national park would bring. Witzig covers the dispute over the inclusion of Crane Lake in the park and focuses on the many individuals and groups who were instrumental in the establishment of Voyageurs National Park, such as Governor Elmer L. Andersen, John A. Blatnik, Sigurd F. Olson, and Rita Shemesh."--BOOK JACKET.