Keeping Oregon Green: Livability, Stewardship, and the Challenges of Growth, 1960-1980 - Larson, Derek R.
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Keeping Oregon Green is a new history of the signature accomplishments of Oregon's environmental era: the revitalization of the polluted Willamette River, the Beach Bill that preserved public access to the entire coastline, the Bottle Bill that set the national standard for reducing roadside litter, and the nation's first comprehensive land use zoning law. Drawing on extensive archival research, source materials ranging from poetry to congressional hearings, and firmly rooted in the cultural, economic, and political history of the Pacific Northwest, Keeping Oregon Green argues that the state's…mehr

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Keeping Oregon Green is a new history of the signature accomplishments of Oregon's environmental era: the revitalization of the polluted Willamette River, the Beach Bill that preserved public access to the entire coastline, the Bottle Bill that set the national standard for reducing roadside litter, and the nation's first comprehensive land use zoning law. Drawing on extensive archival research, source materials ranging from poetry to congressional hearings, and firmly rooted in the cultural, economic, and political history of the Pacific Northwest, Keeping Oregon Green argues that the state's environmental legacy is not just the product of visionary leadership, but rather a complex confluence of events, trends, and personalities that could only have happened when and where it did.
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DEREK R. LARSON earned his PhD in American History from Indiana University. A fifth-generation Oregonian, he is currently Professor of History and Environmental Studies at The College of St. Benedict and St. John's University in Minnesota, where he teaches courses in environmental history, the history of the American West, and a range of interdisciplinary environmental topics. The complex interplay of place, history, and politics in shaping our relationship with nature is a central theme of his teaching and research, which frequently turn to the Pacific Northwest of his youth for inspiration and source material.