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 near Wyoming.
Table of Content
Foreword by William Cronon
Preface
Acknowledgments
The Peculiar Past of a National Monument
The Seeds of Controversy
Primeval Parks and the Wilderness Movement
‘A Mere Millpond’
Searching for an Alternate Site
Wilderness for a New Generation
The Great Evaporation Controversy
The Politics of Preservation
A Symbol of Wilderness
Triumph of the Park System
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Mark W. T. Harvey is associate professor of history at North Dakota State University in Fargo.
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