Where roads will never reach : wilderness and its visionaries in the Northern Rockies / Frederick H. Swanson.
Swanson, Frederick H. (Frederick Harold), 1952- author.
2015
F721 .S93 2015
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Title Where roads will never reach : wilderness and its visionaries in the Northern Rockies / Frederick H. Swanson.
Author Swanson, Frederick H. (Frederick Harold), 1952- author.
ISBN 9781607814030 (cloth : alkaline paper)
9781607814047 (paperback : alkaline paper)
9781607814054
Published Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2015]
Copyright 2015
Language English
Description 1 online resource (388 pages) : maps.
Call Number F721 .S93 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification 333.78/2097865
Summary "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 diminish wildlife habitat. Where Roads Will Never Reach tells the stories of hunters, anglers, outfitters, scientists, and other concerned citizens who devoted themselves to protecting remnant wild lands and ecosystems in the northern Rockies. Beginning in the 1940s and 1950s, as encroaching roads, dams, and clearcuts degraded habitat for native trout, salmon, grizzly bears, and other mammals large and small, these alarmed men and women took action. Environmental historian Frederick Swanson argues that their heartfelt, eloquent message on behalf of wild creatures and the places they live helped boost the American wilderness movement to its current prominence"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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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