A symbol of wilderness
Subtitle: Echo Park and the American conservation movement
By: Mark W.T. Harvey ; foreword by William Cronon.
Series: Weyerhaeuser environmental classics
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Seattle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
Subjects: Nature conservation -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Dinosaur National Monument (Colo. and Utah) -- History; Echo Park Dam (Colo.) -- History
Description: "Harvey details the first major clash between conservationists and developers after World War II, the successful fight to prevent the building of Echo Park Dam. The dam on the Green River was intended to create a recreational lake in northwest Colorado and generate hydroelectric power but would have flooded picturesque Echo Park Valley and threatened Dinosaur National Monument, straddling the Utah-Colorado border."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-356) and index.
Originally published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c1994.