An Open Pit Visible from the Moon: The Wilderness ACT and the Fight to Protect Miners Ridge and the Public Interest Volume 2
(Part of the The Environment in Modern North America Series)
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Situated among the North Cascade Mountains of Washington State, in the Glacier Peak Wilderness Area, Miners Ridge contains vast quantities of copper. Kennecott Copper Corporation's plan to develop an open-pit mine there was, when announced in 1966, the first test of the mining provision of the Wilderness Act passed by Congress in 1964. The battle over the proposed "Open Pit, Big Enough to Be Seen from the Moon," as activists called it, drew the attention...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0806190205
ISBN13:9780806190204
Release Date:April 2022
Publisher:University of Oklahoma Press
Length:254 Pages
Weight:0.83 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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