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Harvey details the first major clash between conservationists and developers after World War Il, 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.

Mark W. T. Harvey is associate professor of history at North Dakota State University in Fargo.

Foreword

xi

William Cronon

Preface

xv

Acknowledgments

xxv

The Peculiar Past of a National Monument

3

(20)

The Seeds of Controversy

23

(28)

Primeval Parks and the Wilderness Movement

51

(26)

``A Mere Millpond''

77

(52)

Searching for an Alternate Site

129

(24)

Wilderness for a New Generation

153

(28)

The Great Evaporation Controversy

181

(26)

The Politics of Preservation

207

(28)

A Symbol of Wilderness

235

(28)

Triumph for the Park System

263

(24)

Epilogue

287

(16)

Notes

303

(42)

Bibliography

345

(12)

Index

357

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A Symbol of Wilderness

A Symbol of Wilderness

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