The battle over Hetch Hetchy America's most controversial dam and the birth of modern environmentalism
Rebuilding after the 1906 earthquake, the city of San Francisco petitioned for a water reservoir to be constructed within the newly created Yosemite National Park. This sparked a debate over whether nature should be controlled or left alone, from which emerged the modern environmentalism movement
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Oxford University Press
2005, 2005
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| Collection: | Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Rebuilding after the 1906 earthquake, the city of San Francisco petitioned for a water reservoir to be constructed within the newly created Yosemite National Park. This sparked a debate over whether nature should be controlled or left alone, from which emerged the modern environmentalism movement |
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| Physical Description: | xxii, 303 p. ill., maps |
| ISBN: | 9780199788934 |