Public Power, Private Dams : the Hells Canyon High Dam Controversy.
Brooks, Karl Boyd.
Public Power, Private Dams : the Hells Canyon High Dam Controversy. - Seattle : University of Washington Press, Jan. 2009. - 1 online resource (250 pages) : illustrations
Foreword: Why So Important a Story Is So Little Known by William Cronon ; Preface ; Acknowledgments ; List of Abbreviations ; 1. Introduction: Hells Canyon High Damand the Postwar Northwest; 2. At Hell's Gates; 3. Nationalizing Nature: The New Deal Legacy of Snake Basin Hydropower; 4. Taming Rivers and Presidents: The Hells Canyon Controversy Goes National; 5. Planning for Permanent Control: The New Deal Legacy of Northwest Fishery Policy; 6. Sacrificing Hells Canyon's Fish: Death by Committee; 7. Unplugging the New Deal: Hells Canyon High Damand the Postwar Public-Power Debate. 8. Claiming the Public Interest: Idaho Power Moves on Hells Canyon9. Privatizing Hells Canyon: Dwight Eisenhower's Partnership with Idaho Power; 10. From Energy to Environment: The Aftermath of the Hells Canyon Controversy; Notes; Bibliography ; Index.
In the years following World War II, the world's biggest dam was almost built in Hells Canyon on the Snake River in Idaho. Karl Boyd Brooks tells the story of the dam controversy, which became a referendum not only on public-power expansion but also on the environmental implications of the New Deal's natural resources and economic policy. Private-power critics of the Hells Canyon High Dam posed difficult questions about the implications of damming rivers to create power and to grow crops. Activists, attorneys, and scientists pioneered legal tactics and political rhetoric that would help to define the environmental movement in the 1960s. The debate, however, was less about endangered salmon or threatened wild country and more about who would control land and water and whether state enterprise or private capital would oversee the supply of electricity. By thwarting the dam's construction, Snake Basin irrigators retained control over water as well as economic and political power in Idaho, putting the state on a postwar path that diverged markedly from that of bordering states. In the end, the opponents of the dam were responsible for preserving high deserts and mountain rivers from radical change. With Public Power, Private Dams, Karl Brooks makes an important contribution not only to the history of the Pacific Northwest and the region's anadromous fisheries but also to the environmental history of the United States in the period after World War II. Karl Boyd Brooks is associate professor of history and environmental studies at the University of Kansas." Public Power, Private Dams provides a thorough discussion of the controversies surrounding the Hells Canyon High Dam, with a detailed examination of the regional and national forces that struggled over the dam, how their differing visions of the future were embodied in developmental alternatives, and how the region's salmon runs and tribes and fishers were the big losers."--Dale Goble, University of Idaho.
College Audience University of Washington Press.
9780295989761 (electronic bk.) 0295989769 (electronic bk.) 0295989122 9780295989129
9780295989129
00027464 22573/ctvct4rvq JSTOR
Idaho Power Company--History--20th century.
Idaho Power Company.
1900-1999
Dams--Public opinion--History--Snake River (Wyo.-Wash.)--20th century.
Dams--Public opinion--History--Hells Canyon (Idaho and Or.)--20th century.
Hydroelectric power plants--Political aspects--History--Hells Canyon (Idaho and Or.)--20th century.
Environmental policy--History--United States--20th century.
Private companies--Privileges and immunities--History--United States--20th century.
Nature conservation--History--United States--20th century.
Barrages--Opinion publique--Histoire--Hells, Canyon (Idaho et Or.)--20e siècle.
Centrales hydroélectriques--Aspect politique--Histoire--Hells, Canyon (Idaho et Or.)--20e siècle.
Environnement--Politique gouvernementale--Histoire--États-Unis--20e siècle.
Sociétés à responsabilité limitée--Privilèges et immunités--Histoire--États-Unis--20e siècle.
Nature--Conservation--Histoire--États-Unis--20e siècle.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Real Estate--General.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Environmental policy.
Hydroelectric power plants--Political aspects.
Nature conservation.
United States.
United States--Hells Canyon.
United States--Snake River.
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
TC557.3.S63
333.91/4097957
Public Power, Private Dams : the Hells Canyon High Dam Controversy. - Seattle : University of Washington Press, Jan. 2009. - 1 online resource (250 pages) : illustrations
Foreword: Why So Important a Story Is So Little Known by William Cronon ; Preface ; Acknowledgments ; List of Abbreviations ; 1. Introduction: Hells Canyon High Damand the Postwar Northwest; 2. At Hell's Gates; 3. Nationalizing Nature: The New Deal Legacy of Snake Basin Hydropower; 4. Taming Rivers and Presidents: The Hells Canyon Controversy Goes National; 5. Planning for Permanent Control: The New Deal Legacy of Northwest Fishery Policy; 6. Sacrificing Hells Canyon's Fish: Death by Committee; 7. Unplugging the New Deal: Hells Canyon High Damand the Postwar Public-Power Debate. 8. Claiming the Public Interest: Idaho Power Moves on Hells Canyon9. Privatizing Hells Canyon: Dwight Eisenhower's Partnership with Idaho Power; 10. From Energy to Environment: The Aftermath of the Hells Canyon Controversy; Notes; Bibliography ; Index.
In the years following World War II, the world's biggest dam was almost built in Hells Canyon on the Snake River in Idaho. Karl Boyd Brooks tells the story of the dam controversy, which became a referendum not only on public-power expansion but also on the environmental implications of the New Deal's natural resources and economic policy. Private-power critics of the Hells Canyon High Dam posed difficult questions about the implications of damming rivers to create power and to grow crops. Activists, attorneys, and scientists pioneered legal tactics and political rhetoric that would help to define the environmental movement in the 1960s. The debate, however, was less about endangered salmon or threatened wild country and more about who would control land and water and whether state enterprise or private capital would oversee the supply of electricity. By thwarting the dam's construction, Snake Basin irrigators retained control over water as well as economic and political power in Idaho, putting the state on a postwar path that diverged markedly from that of bordering states. In the end, the opponents of the dam were responsible for preserving high deserts and mountain rivers from radical change. With Public Power, Private Dams, Karl Brooks makes an important contribution not only to the history of the Pacific Northwest and the region's anadromous fisheries but also to the environmental history of the United States in the period after World War II. Karl Boyd Brooks is associate professor of history and environmental studies at the University of Kansas." Public Power, Private Dams provides a thorough discussion of the controversies surrounding the Hells Canyon High Dam, with a detailed examination of the regional and national forces that struggled over the dam, how their differing visions of the future were embodied in developmental alternatives, and how the region's salmon runs and tribes and fishers were the big losers."--Dale Goble, University of Idaho.
College Audience University of Washington Press.
9780295989761 (electronic bk.) 0295989769 (electronic bk.) 0295989122 9780295989129
9780295989129
00027464 22573/ctvct4rvq JSTOR
Idaho Power Company--History--20th century.
Idaho Power Company.
1900-1999
Dams--Public opinion--History--Snake River (Wyo.-Wash.)--20th century.
Dams--Public opinion--History--Hells Canyon (Idaho and Or.)--20th century.
Hydroelectric power plants--Political aspects--History--Hells Canyon (Idaho and Or.)--20th century.
Environmental policy--History--United States--20th century.
Private companies--Privileges and immunities--History--United States--20th century.
Nature conservation--History--United States--20th century.
Barrages--Opinion publique--Histoire--Hells, Canyon (Idaho et Or.)--20e siècle.
Centrales hydroélectriques--Aspect politique--Histoire--Hells, Canyon (Idaho et Or.)--20e siècle.
Environnement--Politique gouvernementale--Histoire--États-Unis--20e siècle.
Sociétés à responsabilité limitée--Privilèges et immunités--Histoire--États-Unis--20e siècle.
Nature--Conservation--Histoire--États-Unis--20e siècle.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Real Estate--General.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Environmental policy.
Hydroelectric power plants--Political aspects.
Nature conservation.
United States.
United States--Hells Canyon.
United States--Snake River.
Electronic books.
7
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
TC557.3.S63
333.91/4097957