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Author : Charles R. Goeldner,Cheryl A. Fellhauer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Skis and skiing
ISBN : MINN:31951D01416978I
Author : Michael W. Childers
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780700618699
Downhill skiing is a vital economic engine for many communities in the Rocky Mountain states, attracting 20 million skier days per season. Colorado is by far the most popular destination, with more than two dozen major ski resorts creating a thriving industry that adds billions to the state's coffers. But, many ask, at what cost? Michael Childers traces the rise of Colorado's ski industry alongside that of the burgeoning environmental movement, which sprang up in opposition to rampant commercial development on mountains that had been designated as public lands. Combining official ski resort figures, U.S. Forest Service documents, real estate and tourism records, wildlife data, newspaper articles, and public comments, Childers shows how what started as an innocent leisurely pursuit has morphed into a multi-billion dollar business that forever changed the landscape of Colorado and brought with it serious environmental consequences. This first environmental history of skiing in Colorado traces the recreation's rise in popularity as a way of examining major changes in public land management in the American West during the last century. As more people headed to Colorado's mountains in search of thrills on the slopes, the USFS quickly became overwhelmed by the demand and turned resort development over to the private sector. The result has been a decades-long battle between developers and environmentalists-with skiers and Colorado residents caught in the middle. Childers examines the history of the ski industry within Colorado throughout the twentieth century along with the challenges the industry's growth posed in balancing the private development of public lands and mounting environmental concerns over issues such as rural growth, wildlife management, and air and water pollution. He then traces the history of radical environmentalism back to the 1960s to show how it picked up momentum, culminating in the Earth Liberation Front's 1998 arson at Vail Ski Resort--which ended up doing more harm than good to the environmentalist cause by recasting the mega-resorts as victims and turning public opinion against all environmental activists in the area. As Americans weigh their desire for fresh powder against their concern for protecting unspoiled lands, Childers's book provides valuable food for thought. Colorado Powder Keg opens a new window on the history of skiing in the American West as it adds to the broader debate over the management and purpose of national forests.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556031236300
Author : United States. Department of the Interior. Water and Power Resources Service. Upper Colorado Region
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Natural resources
ISBN : UCR:31210024876003
Introduction -- Public involvement -- Description of area -- Problems and needs -- Potential water development -- Yellow jacket unit.
Author : United States. Forest Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Forest management
ISBN : MINN:31951D02987934K
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Natural resources
ISBN : UCBK:C063188376
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Forest reserves
ISBN : UIUC:30112111558521
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951D029746583
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Colorado
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017863536
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Forests and forestry
ISBN : UOM:39015001295032
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Travel
ISBN : NYPL:33433057663399
Author : United States. Forest Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Forest management
ISBN : MINN:31951D02747772M
Author : William Philpott
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295804613
Winner of the Western Writers of America 2014 Spur Award for Best Western Nonfiction, Contemporary Mention the Colorado high country today and vacation imagery springs immediately to mind: mountain scenery, camping, hiking, skiing, and world-renowned resorts like Aspen and Vail. But not so long ago, the high country was isolated and little visited. Vacationland tells the story of the region's dramatic transformation in the decades after World War II, when a loose coalition of tourist boosters fashioned alluring images of nature in the high country and a multitude of local, state, and federal actors built the infrastructure for high-volume tourism: ski mountains, stocked trout streams, motels, resort villages, and highway improvements that culminated in an entirely new corridor through the Rockies, Interstate 70. Vacationland is more than just the tale of one tourist region. It is a case study of how the consumerism of the postwar years rearranged landscapes and revolutionized American environmental attitudes. Postwar tourists pioneered new ways of relating to nature, forging surprisingly strong personal connections to their landscapes of leisure and in many cases reinventing their lifestyles and identities to make vacationland their permanent home. They sparked not just a population boom in popular tourist destinations like Colorado but also a new kind of environmental politics, as they demanded protection for the aesthetic and recreational qualities of place that promoters had sold them. Those demands energized the American environmental movement-but also gave it blind spots that still plague it today. Peopled with colorful characters, richly evocative of the Rocky Mountain landscape, Vacationland forces us to consider how profoundly tourism changed Colorado and America and to grapple with both the potential and the problems of our familiar ways of relating to environment, nature, and place.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Economics
ISBN : UCAL:B4591560
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Forests and forestry
ISBN : MINN:31951D00403632B
