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With Distance in His Eyes : The Environmental Life and Legacy of Stewart Udall /
"Perhaps no other public official or secretary of the interior has ever had as much success in environmental protection, natural resource conservation, and outdoor recreation opportunity creation as Stewart Udall. A progressive Mormon raised in rural Arizona, Udall served in the presidential ca...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Reno, Nevada :
University of Nevada Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Udall's Formative Years, 1920-1960. Early years
- Congressman
- Udall as U.S. Secretary of the Interior, 1961-1969. First days at the Interior Department
- Expanding the National Park System in the U.S. West
- National Park System in the U.S. East
- Protecting wildlife and expanding the National Wildlife Refuge System
- Transitioning the Bureau of Land Management to multiple use
- Establishing wild rivers and supporting reclamation
- Exercising caution with oil, gas, and mineral development
- Advocating for the Wilderness Act
- Revitalizing the urban environment and stabilizing human population
- Controversies of the Interior Secretary
- Final days in office
- Udall's Life After Politics, 1970-2010. Lobbying for energy conservation
- Defending Navajo uranium miners
- Climate change activist and historian.