{"product_id":"crown-jewel-wilderness-creating-north-cascades-national-park-9780874223521","title":"Crown Jewel Wilderness: Creating North Cascades National Park","description":"\u003cp\u003eRemote, rugged, and spectacularly majestic, with stunning alpine meadows and jagged peaks that soar beyond ten thousand feet, North Cascades National Park is one of the Pacific Northwest's crown jewels. Now, in the first full-length account, Lauren Danner chronicles its creation--just in time for the park's fiftieth anniversary in 2018.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe North Cascades range benefited from geographic isolation that shielded its mountains from extensive resource extraction and development. Efforts to establish a park began as early as 1892, but gained traction after World War II as economic affluence sparked national interest in wilderness preservation and growing concerns about the impact of harvesting timber to meet escalating postwar housing demands.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the environmental movement matured, a 1950s Glacier Peak study mobilized conservationists to seek establishment of a national park that prioritized wilderness. Concerned about the National Park Service's policy favoring development for tourism and the United States Forest Service's policy promoting logging in the national forests, conservationists leveraged a changing political environment and the evolving environmental values of the natural resource agencies to achieve the goal of permanent wilderness protection. Their grassroots activism became increasingly sophisticated, eventually leading to the compromise that resulted in the 1968 creation of Washington's magnificent third national park.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDanner, Lauren:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Lauren Danner, PhD, is a writer and historian based in Olympia, Washington. She focuses on public lands policy, Pacific Northwest and environmental history, and outdoor recreation. A former college professor, museum director, and Washington State field coordinator for the Lewis and Clark bicentennial, she now writes at wildernesswithinher.com.","brand":"Washington State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50641997005074,"sku":"9780874223521","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_42781b3a-1db5-43b1-bfa2-fec8c7a5eb14.jpg?v=1733050448","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/crown-jewel-wilderness-creating-north-cascades-national-park-9780874223521","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}