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What happens when... a coveted landscape becomes a battleground for two legitimate and compelling visions of the American West? In examining the origins and implementations of the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, Planning a New West reveals a vast experiment in mediating between the Old and New Wests.
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Planning a New West : The Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area Culture & Environment in the Pacific West Series
author
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Abbott, Carl.; Adler, Sy; Abbott, Margery Post.
publisher
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Oregon State University Press
isbn10 | asin
:
0870713922
print isbn13
:
9780870713927
ebook isbn13
:
9780585279022
language
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English
subject
Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area (Or. and Wash.)--History.
publication date
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1997
lcc
:
F853.A28 1997eb
ddc
:
979.7
subject
:
Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area (Or. and Wash.)--History.
Page i
Planning a New West
Page ii
Culture and Environment in the Pacific West
Series Editor: William L. Lang
Books in this series are intended for general readers and for use in classrooms. They will examine a broad range of historical and contemporary issues about relationships between humans and the larger environment west of the Rockies. The books will be interdisciplinary and focused on issues important to this region.
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Planning a New West
The Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area
Carl Abbott Sy Adler Margery Post Abbott
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Cover photograph credits
front cover: Oregon Tourism Commission
back cover: (top) U.S.D.A. Forest Service; (lower) authors
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources and the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printer Library Materials Z39.48-1984.
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Abbott, Carl. Planning a new West : the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area / Carl Abbott, Sy Adler, Margery Post Abbott. p. cm. (Culture & environment in the Pacific West series) Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-87071-392-2 (acid-free paper) 1. Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area (Or. and Wash.)History. I. Adler, Sy, 1950- . II. Abbott, Margery Post. III. Title. IV. Series. F853.A28 1997 979.7dc21 96-39753 CIP
Copyright 1997 Carl Abbott, Sy Adler, and Margery Post Abbott All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America
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Contents
Series Editor's Introduction
vi
Introducing the Columbia River Gorge: "Magnificent Display and Terrible Grandeur"
1
1 Portland's "Private Elysium"
23
2 From Trading Posts to Tourism: The Gorge Economy in Transition
42
3 Choosing Sides
70
4 The Politics of Protection
87
5 Making a Management Plan
114
6 Testing the Waters: From Plan to Action
148
7 Whose Gorge Is It?
174
Sources
194
Notes
204
Index
211
Page vi
Series Editor's Introduction
The American West in the late twentieth century looks dramatically different than it did a century ago. Most of what has happened to the environment at the behest of an expanding national economy and a technologically ambitious population still lay ahead when the young Frederick Jackson Turner delivered his famous address at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893. Few predicted exactly how important the American West would be in the coming century and even fewer foresaw the potential for environmental crises that so worries this generation of westerners. Prognostications for the coming century by experts in 1893 included everything from recognition of a full range of women's rights and universal access to electricity to the institution of an international currency and 100-mile-per-hour trains. None of the seventy-four futurists at the World's Fair mentioned environmental issues. Yet today that subject is primary to scholars and thinkers about the American West, because of the enormous changes visited on the landscape during this century. And it is a more-than-even bet that the twenty-first century's central conundrums will concern the environment and human activity.
Awareness of contemporary environmental issues and the need to understand the historical relationships between humans and their environment prompts this series in Culture and Environment in the Pacific West. Its central focus is what happens when human cultural inventions intersect with the non-human world. Scholars have long agreed that investigations of environmental questions cannot be divorced from the context and ideology that inform and motivate human activity. Likewise, modern thinkers consider it delusionary to attempt explanations of human behavior apart from environmental conditions and places. But explanations of these relationships are nothing if not complex, and the resulting texts often read as very technical and arcane treatises. That is unfortunate, because the issues inherent in studies of human interaction with the environment are important and deserve consideration by a thoughtful public. With that purpose in mind,
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