Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Irrigation and ReclamationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
Lower Colorado River Basin Project: May 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 18, 1966
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Irrigation and ReclamationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
Lower Colorado River Basin Project
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1732
Book Description
Lower Colorado River Basin Project
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Irrigation and ReclamationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Green Republican
Author: Thomas G. SmithPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822971054
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Green Republican chronicles the life of Congressman John Saylor and his personal legacy as an environmental champion. Saylor believed the wilderness was intrinsic to the American experience-that our concepts of democracy, love of country, conservation, and independence were shaped by our wilderness experiences. Through his ardent protection of national parks and diligent work to add new areas to the parks system, Saylor helped propel the American environmental movement in the three decades following Word War II. At the height of the federal dam-building program in the 1950s and 1960s, Saylor blocked efforts to erect hydroelectric dams whose impounded waters would have invaded Dinosaur National Monument and the Grand Canyon. During the energy crisis of the early 1970s, Saylor denounced attempts to open the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. He was the House architect of the Wilderness Act of 1964 and the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 1968. Because Saylor represented a coal-mining district, he doggedly promoted the use of coal, instead of atomic or hydropower, to generate electricity, and repeatedly won the support of his constituents over thirteen terms between 1949 and 1973. But he also fervently supported legislation to purify the air and water and redeem stripped lands.Considered both a maverick and a pioneer, John Saylor won respect on both sides of the aisle because he was direct, hardworking, and passionate about conservation at a time when the cause was not popular. Environmental leaders dubbed him "St. John" because he tenaciously advocated their proposals and battled resistance by resource-use proponents.Based on extensive research and numerous interviews with Saylor's colleagues and members of the conservationist community, Thomas G. Smith assembles the remarkable story of John Saylor, arguably the leading congressional conservationist of the twentieth century, and a major force in the preservation of America's wilderness.
Green Republican
Author: Thomas Gary SmithPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
A biography of John P. Saylor, a Republican congressman from Pennsylvania who became a prominent conservationist in the three decades after World War II.
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1726
Book Description
The Man Who Built the Sierra Club
Author: Robert WyssPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231541317
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
David Brower (1912–2000) was a central figure in the modern environmental movement. His leadership, vision, and elegant conception of the wilderness forever changed how we approach nature. In many ways, he was a twentieth-century Thoreau. Brower transformed the Sierra Club into a national force that challenged and stopped federally sponsored projects that would have dammed the Grand Canyon and destroyed hundreds of millions of acres of our nation's wilderness. To admirers, he was tireless, passionate, visionary, and unyielding. To opponents and even some supporters, he was contentious and polarizing. As a young man growing up in Berkeley, California, Brower proved himself a fearless climber of the Sierra Nevada's dangerous peaks. After serving in the Tenth Mountain Division during World War II, he became executive director of the Sierra Club. This uncompromising biography explores Brower's role as steward of the modern environmental movement. His passionate advocacy destroyed lifelong friendships and, at times, threatened his goals. Yet his achievements remain some of the most important triumphs of the conservation movement. What emerges from this unique portrait is a rich and robust profile of a leader who took up the work of John Muir and, along with Rachel Carson, made environmentalism the cause of our time.
Lower Colorado River Basin Project: August 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 30, 31, and September 1, 1965
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Irrigation and ReclamationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
Book Description
Colorado River Basin Project, (general Overview)
Author: Catalog of the United States Geological Survey Library
Author: U.S. Geological Survey LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description