Public Power, Private Dams: The Hells Canyon High Dam Controversy (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)

by William Cronon (Author), Karl Boyd Brooks (Author)

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  Paperback
  2009

  $38.52

  In the years following World War II, federal plans to build a mammoth new dam on the Snake River in Idaho were thwarted by a coalition of irrigators, private-power executives, and state politicians who wanted local control. The unintended result was the preservation of high deserts and mountain rivers from radical change.