Crown jewel wilderness : creating North Cascades National Park / Lauren Danner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Danner, Lauren, 1967- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

North Cascades National Park (Wash.)--History.

North Cascades National Park (Wash.).

Washington (State)--North Cascades National Park.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

320 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Pullman, Washington : Washington State University Press, [2017]

Summary:

Remote, rugged, and majestic, North Cascades National Park is one of the Pacific Northwest's crown jewels. Efforts to establish a park began as early as 1892, but gained traction only after World War II as interest in Wilderness preservation grew amid mounting concerns about the impact of timber harvesting in national forests. Troubled by the National Park Service's policy favoring development for tourism and the United States Forest Service's promotion of increased logging, conservationists launched a grassroots campaign and eventually leveraged a changing political environment and the evolving environmental values of the public land agencies. Politicians, agency leaders, and conservationists compromised, and in 1968 created Washington's magnificent third national park. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: "A stupendous, primitive wilderness"

The federal government in the North Cascades, 1892-1940

Conservationists coalesce around Glacier Peak

The Forest Service stumbles, and conservationists debate

Glacier Peak redux

A freshening political wind

The peace of the Potomac

On the national stage

Hearings + hearings + politics = park

Managing the wilderness crown jewel

Afterword: "The mountains abide".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780874223521

0874223520

OCLC:

985974360