Saved in Time: The Fight to Establish Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Colorado

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Estella B. Leopold Herbert W. Meyer

Saved in Time

The Fight to Establish Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Colorado

Estella B. Leopold, Herbert W. Meyer

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University of New Mexico Press
30 October 2012

History of the Americas; Nature Conservation law; Management of land & natural resources

In the summer of 1969, a federal district court in Denver, Colorado, heard arguments in one of the nation’s first explicitly environmental cases, in which the Defenders of Florissant, Inc. opposed real estate interests intent on developing lands containing an extraordinary set of ancient fossils. This book, the first account of the fight to preserve the Florissant fossil beds, tells a story of environmental activism that remains little known more than forty years after the coalition’s victory. The principal author, Estella Leopold, was a major participant in the process.

By: Estella B. Leopold, Herbert W. Meyer
Imprint: University of New Mexico Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 272g
ISBN: 9780826352361
ISBN 10: 0826352367
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 30 October 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Palaeobotanist Estella B. Leopold is professor emerita of biology at the University of Washington. National Park Service palaeontologist Herbert W. Meyer is the author of Fossils of Florissant.

Reviews for Saved in Time: The Fight to Establish Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Colorado

A welcome account of an example of how the environmental movement gained legs and used the courts to convert abstract ethics into physical places for us to study and preserve this unique page of earth history.--Annals of Wyoming