Title: Rocky Mountain Divide: Selling and Saving the West
From the front dust jacket flap:
The opposing forces of conservation and development have shaped
and will continue to shape the natural environment and scenic
beauty of the American West. Perhaps nowhere are their opposite
effects more visible than in the neighboring states of Colorado and
Utah, so alike in their spectacular mountain environments, yet so
different in their approaches to land conservation. This study explores
why Colorado has over twenty-five land trusts, while Utah has only one.
John Wright traces the success of voluntary land conservation in
Colorado to the state's history as a region of secular commerce.
As environmental consciousness has grown in Colorado, people
there have embraced the businesslike approach of land trusts as
simply a new, more responsible way of conducting the real estate
business. In Utah, by contrast, Wright finds that Mormon millen-
nialism and the belief that growth equals success have created a
public climate opposed to the formation of land trusts. As Wright
puts it, "environmentalism seems to thrive in the Centennial state
within the spiritual vacuum which is filled by Mormonism in Utah."
These findings remind conservationists of the power of underlying
cultural values that affect their efforts to preserve private lands.
By: John B. Wright
Publisher: University of Texas Press, Austin, TX
ISBN: 0292790791
Copyright: 1993, First Edition
Size/Format: 6 1/8" x 9 1/2", hardcover with dust jacket, 272
pages.
Condition: Ex-library with usual markings, NO card pocket or stickers.
Clean & tight pages, minor wear on covers & dust jacket. Includes
bibliographical references & index.
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