A Force for Nature: Nancy Russell's Fight to Save the Columbia Gorge

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-0-87071-218-0
Verlag: Oregon State University Press

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 540 g

A Force for Nature is a biography of a person and a place. It describes how Nancy Russell, a woman with no political, fundraising, or organizing experience, mounted a national campaign to overcome eighty years of conflict—some of it later directed at her through slashed tires and death threats—to protect the Columbia River Gorge, one of the nation’s most scenic, historic, and threatened landscapes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Blair, Bowen

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Über Autor(innen)

Bowen Blair is an environmental attorney who—as a senior staff member for Friends of the Columbia Gorge, the Trust for Public Land, and Indian Country Conservancy—has protected some of the nation’s most important landscapes and acquired several hundred thousand acres of land for public and tribal ownership. In the Columbia Gorge, Blair helped draft and lobby the act that established the country’s most prominent national scenic area and negotiated the purchase of thousands of acres for public parks and tribal homelands. He was later appointed by two Oregon governors to the Gorge Commission, which he chaired.