Drawing Lines in the Forest: Creating Wilderness Areas in the Pacific Northwest

Drawing Lines in the Forest: Creating Wilderness Areas in the Pacific Northwest

Drawing Lines in the Forest: Creating Wilderness Areas in the Pacific Northwest

Drawing Lines in the Forest: Creating Wilderness Areas in the Pacific Northwest

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Overview

Drawing boundaries around wilderness areas often serves a double purpose: protection of the land within the boundary and release of the land outside the boundary to resource extraction and other development. In Drawing Lines in the Forest, Kevin R. Marsh discusses the roles played by various groups—the Forest Service, the timber industry, recreationists, and environmentalists—in arriving at these boundaries. He shows that pragmatic, rather than ideological, goals were often paramount, with all sides benefiting.

After World War II, representatives of both logging and recreation use sought to draw boundaries that would serve to guarantee access to specific areas of public lands. The logging industry wanted to secure a guaranteed supply of timber, as an era of stewardship of the nation's public forests gave way to an emphasis on rapid extraction of timber resources. This spawned a grassroots preservationist movement that ultimately challenged the managerial power of the Forest Service. The Wilderness Act of 1964 provided an opportunity for groups on all sides to participate openly and effectively in the political process of defining wilderness boundaries.

The often contentious debates over the creation of wilderness areas in the Cascade Mountains in Oregon and Washington represent the most significant stages in the national history of wilderness conservation since World War II: Three Sisters, North Cascades and Glacier Peak, Mount Jefferson, Alpine Lakes, French Pete, and the state-wide wilderness acts of 1984.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780295989860
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Publication date: 11/23/2009
Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 256
File size: 9 MB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Kevin R. Marsh is associate professor of history at Idaho State University in Pocatello.

Table of Contents

Foreword: God and the Devil Are in the Details by William Cronon

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Bringing Wilderness History Back to the Land

1. The Three Sisters, 1950-1964

2. The North Cascades, 1956-1968

3. Mount Jefferson, 1961-1968

4. The Alpine Lakes, 1958-1976

5. Returning French Pete to the Three Sisters Wilderness Area, 1968-1984

6. Picking Up the Pieces, 1977-1984

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

What People are Saying About This

Paul Sutter

"By focusing on grassroots activism and the politics of boundary lines, Kevin Marsh has written a compelling case study of the postwar wilderness movement in the Pacific Northwest that will challenge scholars to rethink wilderness history more broadly."

William Cronon

"Drawing Lines in the Forest offers insights that are relevant to all regions of the United States, and that arguably change the way we should think not just about wilderness, but about the much larger project of American land conservation in general."

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