Crown Jewel Wilderness: Creating North Cascades National Park

North Cascades National Park is remote, rugged, and spectacularly majestic. Efforts to establish a park gained traction after World War II, as national interest in wilderness preservation and concerns about the impact of harvesting timber grew. Troubled by the National Park Service's policy favoring development for tourism and the United States Forest Service's policy promoting logging in the national forests, conservationists leveraged a changing political environment and the evolving environmental values of the natural resource agencies. Their activism eventually led to the 1968 creation of a crown jewel--Washington's magnificent third national park. This engaging account tells the story.

Author: Lauren Danner
Publisher: Washington State University Press
Published: 09/01/2017
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780874223521
ISBN10: 0874223520
BISAC Categories:
- Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection | General
- History | United States | State & Local | Pacific Northwest (OR, WA)
- Political Science | Public Policy | Environmental Policy