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Voyageurs National Park : The Battle to Create Minnesota's National Park /

Voyageurs National Park chronicles the complex legal and political campaign to found Minnesotas only national park. Fred Witzigs thoroughly documented and referenced research allows him to offer a detailed view of the unanticipated disappointments and defining moments of achievement that accompanied...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Witzig, Fred T. (Frederick Theodore), 1925-2009
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2004.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • The National Park Service in northeastern Minnesota : the early years
  • Developing a proposal for Voyageurs National Park
  • Delay and frustration
  • Progress on Voyageurs stalled
  • State administration leads national park cause
  • The introduction of Voyageurs National Park legislation
  • The reintroduction of park legislation
  • Deadlocks and bottlenecks
  • Congressional hearings
  • Final passage
  • The final step to establishment : land donation and the state legislature
  • The four years to establishment.