Wayne Aspinall and the Shaping of the American West
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.94 (805 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0870816659 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 264 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-02-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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His crusty and dtermined personality was at the enter of some of the key environmental battles of the twentieth century, including the Echo Park Dam fight, the struggle for the Wilderness Act, and the long controversy over the Central Arizona Project.. Schulte details a political career that encompassed some of the most crucial years in the development of the twentieth-century West. As chairman of the House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee from 1959 to 1973, Aspinall shaped the nation's reclamation, land, wilderness, and natural resource policies. Aspinall was variously dubbed the "Ruler of the Land," a "bridge between the old and new Wests," and the environmental movement's "most durable foe." The late David Brower, the notable Sierra Club leader, remarked that the environmental movement had seen "dream after dream dashed on the stony continents of Wayne Aspinall."In Wayne Aspinall and the Shaping of the American West, Steven C. Colorado Congressman Wayne N
"Schulte chronicles Aspinall's rise and fall in this well-crafted narrative. The story contains many colorful characters, including voters, presidents, and environmentalists. This makes for fascinating reading and gives environmentalists a look at the other side."—North Dakota History
A challenging, but helpful, work Jeri Mattics Omernik This book isn't an easy read, but it contains much helpful historic information about how a singular public servant helped shape the American West. While one can argue whether or not Aspinall's pinnacle of power was, in the end, helpful or harmful, one cannot argue his service on behalf of his constituents.. "Ecology never entered his thinking" according to George Alderson. This is a masterful biography of a congressman who was a central figure at mid-20th Century, when our national conservation policies were being transformed to protect natural values of the land. Wayne N. Aspinall (Democrat of Colorado) was chairman of a committee that handled the Wilderness Act and many national park laws. The author makes it clear that Mr. Aspinall never understood the public's desire to protect irreplaceable wild places, and the concept of ecology never entered his thinking. To his dying day he regarded parks and wilderness as frivolous. For 15 years he used his p