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Where roads will never reach : wilderness and its visionaries in the Northern Rockies /

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"Areas of the Rocky Mountains of Idaho and Montana are some of the most important remaining examples of American wilderness. These areas have been preserved because of citizens who stood against private and government plans to build roads and dams for timber and hydropower projects and to dimin...

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Main Author: Swanson, Frederick H. (Frederick Harold), 1952- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2015]
Subjects:
National parks and reserves > Rocky Mountains.
Wilderness areas > Rocky Mountains.
Nature conservation > Rocky Mountains.
Rocky Mountains > Description and travel.
Rocky Mountains > Environmental conditions.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Prologue
  • The blueprint for our folly
  • Selway Wilderness
  • The "Bob" besieged
  • The battle of Bunker Creek
  • Idaho's lifeblood
  • Partitioning Eden
  • A book and its cover
  • Wild river
  • Full use and development
  • The storekeeper and the Kleinschmidt hoss
  • Rumblings along the Magruder Road
  • The green of our forests
  • The hush of the land
  • One powerful senator
  • Wilderness made rational
  • The organization of spirited people
  • Lee Metcalf and the politics of preservation
  • Timber and the mountain fortress
  • Rare redone
  • Negotiating a wilderness
  • Mountains and rivers without end
  • Watershed moments
  • The last wilderness
  • Deadlock
  • Visions of the wild Rockies
  • Afterword.

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