Nevada's environmental legacy
Subtitle: progress or plunder
By: James W. Hulse.
Series: Wilbur S. Shepperson series in Nevada history
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Reno, Nev
Language: eng
Number of pages: 138
ISBN-13: 9780874177695
Subjects: Environmental policy -- Nevada -- History; Natural resources -- Nevada -- History; Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Nevada -- History; Environmental degradation -- Nevada -- History; Nevada -- Environmental conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Land policies; title: The mining giveaway; title: The northern waters; title: The southern waters : the Colorado River and Las Vegas; title: The military invasion; title: Faustian laboratory of the nuclear age, 1950-1992; title: Nuclear waste : the saga of Yucca Mountain; title: Referees and reformers.