Olympic Battleground: The Power Politics of Timber Preservation

Olympic Battleground: The Power Politics of Timber Preservation

Editorial Reviews
Book Description
New edition of the classic account of the struggle to create and preserve Olympic National Park.

This is the first comprehensive history of the heavily visited park.

A case study of the need for citizen action to protect our natural areas

A provocative chronicle of intrigue, political chicanery, and citizen activism, this first comprehensive account of the struggle to create and preserve Olympic National Park provides an eye-opening history of forestry in the Pacific Northwest, from 1890 to the present. Illustrated with maps, charts, vintage political cartoons, and historical photos, and updated to include recent events.

Olympic Battleground: The Power Politics of Timber Preservation,Carsten Lien,Mountaineers Books,0898867363,Environmental Conservation & Protection - General,Environmental Science,Environmental Studies,History,National Park Service,Nature,Nature/Ecology,Olympic National Forest (Wash,Olympic National Forest (Wash.),Olympic National Park (Wash.),Political Process - General,United States,United States - State & Local - General,United States.,Conservation,Natural History,Outdoors,Nonfiction

Discount Books:

1. Once upon an Oldman: Special Interest Politics and the Oldman River Dam
2. Optical Methods in Biomedical and Environmental Sciences
3. Organic Farming : Policies and Prospects
4. Preservation of Surfactant Formulations
5. Prohibitive Policy : Implementing the Federal Endangered Species Act (Mit Studies in American Politics and Public Policy)
6. Protegiendo LA Biodiversidad: Leyes Nacionales Que Regulan El Acceso a Los Recursos Genticos En El Continente Americano
7. Public Choice and Environmental Regulation: Tradable Permit Systems in the United States and Co2 Taxation in Europe (New Horizons in Environmental Economics)
8. Punctuated Equilibrium and the Dynamics of U.S. Environmental Policy
9. Rare Wild Animals (Culture of China)
10. Recovering the Prairie

Discount Books

Recommended Books

1. Norman Foster : A Global Architecture
2. Tangible Strategies for Intangible Assets
3. Dr. Broth and Ollie's Brain-Boggling Search for the Lost Luggage : Across Time and Space in 80 Puzzl
4. Great Demo! : How To Create And Execute Stunning Software Demonstrations
5. Davidson's Principles and Practice of Medicine: 50th Anniversary : Slipcased
6. Comprehensive Asymmetric Catalysis
7. Combinatorial Optimization : Theory and Algorithms
8. Facing Evil: Confronting the Dreadful Power Behind Genocide, Terroism, and Cruelty
9. Gamma World Campaign Setting
10. Cranks Fast Food
11. Celtic Quilting
12. Father Time
13. Emperor Charles V : 1500-1558
14. Ecological Impact Assessment
15. DK Eyewitness Travel Guides: Munich and the Bavarian Alps