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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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
2004.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
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.