William Stanek's The Living North Cascades Biography: Ice, Rivers, and the Making of a Modern Wilderness

North Cascades looks like wilderness untouched by history. Its biography tells a more complicated story.

Mountains rose and glaciers cut through them. Ice fed rivers. Indigenous peoples crossed and knew the range. Miners entered difficult valleys. Roads, dams, power systems, recreation, wilderness advocacy, science, and conservation created new relationships between distant mountains and modern communities.

William Stanek's The Living North Cascades Biography follows ice, rivers, migration, extraction, hydroelectric development, wilderness protection, access, ecological change, and the retreat of glaciers.

This is the story of how wild country became modern wilderness-not because people were absent, but because generations made competing choices about what these mountains should provide and what should remain beyond development.

© 2028 Our American National Parks Library (Lydbog): 9781666009088
© 2028 Our American National Parks Library (E-bog): 9781666008821

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Lydbog: 31. marts 2028
E-bog: 28. marts 2028