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Dinosaur National Monument straddles the Utah-Colorado border near Wyoming. It attracted little attention and few visitors until plans to dam the Green River and flood picturesque Echo Park Valley sparked public opposition in the early 1950s. Echo Park Dam would have threatened part of this national monument, a prospect that alarmed the National Park Service. In July 1950 the writer Bernard DeVoto published his essay,Shall We Let Them Ruin Our National Parks? in the Saturday Evening Post and spurred nationwide opposition. Soon the Sierra Club, the Wilderness Society, and other organizations embraced preservind Echo Park. By the spring of 1956 the coalition of wilderness enthusiasts and conservation organizations had faced down the dams proponents and force Congress to cancel its construction. As Professor Harvey makes clear, the battle to save Echo Park marked the first major clash between preservationists and developers after World War II, a conflict that replays itself in the West with greater intensity each decade.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Harvey, Mark W T. (Mark William Thornton) A symbol of wilderness: Echo Park and the American conservation movement / Mark W. T. harvey. 1st ed. p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: The peculiar past of a national monumentThe seeds of contro versyPrimeval parks and the wilderness movementA mere millpond Serching for an alternate siteWilderness for a new generationThe great evaporation controversyThe politics of preservationA symbol of wilder nessTriumph for the park systemEpilogue. ISBN 0-8263-1542-9 1. Dinosaur National Monument, (Colo. and Utah)History. 2. Nature conservationUnited StatesHistory-20th century. 3. Echo Park Dem (Colo.)History. I. Title. F832.D5H37 1994 978.8' 12dczo 93-46955 CIP
1994 by University of New Mexico Press All rights reserved. First Edition
Page v
To my parents, William and Dorothy Harvey
Page vii
Contents
Illustrations & Maps
ix
Preface
xi
Acknowledgments
xxi
1. The Peculiar Past of a National Monument
3
2. The Seeds of Controversy
23
3. Primeval Parks and the Wilderness Movement
51
4. "A Mere Millpond"
77
5. Searching for an Alternate Site
129
6. Wilderness for a New Generation
153
7. The Great Evaporation Controversy
181
8. The Politics of Preservation
207
9. A Symbol of Wilderness
235
10. Triumph for the Park System
263
11. Epilogue
287
Notes
303
Bibliography
345
Index
357
Page ix
Illustrations
Illustrations following
106
Yampa River Canyon from Round Top.
Echo Park and Yampa River Canyon.
The Green River and the Gates of Lodore.
The sprawling and broken walls of Split Mountain.
Warm Springs Bend in Yampa Canyon.
Visitors in Sand Canyon circa 1950s.
The confluence of the Yampa and the Green Rivers at Echo Park.
A view of the south side of Steamboat Rock.
Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman and National Park Service Director Newton Drury in December, 1949.
Bernard DeVoto in Portland, Oregon, January 1954.
Fred Packard, executive secretary of the National Parks Association.
Howard Zahniser, executive secretary of the Wilderness Society.
Joe Desloge studies Backus Rapid in the Canyon of Lodore, July 1955.
Boats dwarfed by the Tiger Wall in Yampa Canyon in 1952.
Stephen Bradley floating the Yampa River in 1952.
Page x
Stephen Bradley on the Green River.
A panoramic view of Steamboat Rock, the Green River and
Echo Park.
Eight-hundred foot high Steamboat Rock looms over Echo Park.
Richard Bradley, a defender of Echo Park.
Harold Bradley in Madison, Wisconsin, 1943.
David Brower, executive director of the Sierra Club.
A Sierra Club float trip through Dinosaur.
A Sierra Club float trip in the summer of 1953.
Wallace Stegner, professor of literature at Stanford University.
Richard and Dorry Bradley with their two children,
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