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A story that stands like a dam: Glen Canyon and the struggle for the soul of the West

By Russell Martin

Book information

Publisher
University of Utah Press
Year
1999
ISBN
087480597X, 9780874805970
Google Books ID
yycfAQAAIAAJ
Open Library ID
OL6805540M
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
989 kB (1012299 bytes)
Edition
University of Utah Press ed
Pages
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Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

In this classic narrative history of the construction of Glen Canyon Dam in the 1950s and 1960s, Russell Martin has captured the individual, cultural, political, and environmental dramas that brought into being the environmental movement we know today. Winner of the Caroline Bancroft History Prize, Martin's book is available again in a new edition with a revised foreword. Across the West, calls for the removal of hydroelectric dams constructed during the Bureau of Reclamation's grand century of dam-building are being heard. More than thirty years later Glen Canyon Dam is still at the vortex of controversy, both because of its impact on ecological processes downstream and its drowning of natural landscapes behind its headwall. A STORY THAT STANDS LIKE A DAM is as compelling and relevant today as it was when it was first published.

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