Nevada's environmental legacy : progress or plunder / James W. Hulse.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Wilbur S. Shepperson series in Nevada history.
Main Author: Hulse, James W.
Language:English
Published: Reno : University of Nevada Press, [2009], ©2009.
Series:Wilbur S. Shepperson series in Nevada history.
Subjects:
Environmental policy > Nevada > History.
Natural resources > Nevada > History.
Nature > Effect of human beings on > Nevada > History.
Environmental degradation > Nevada > History.
Nevada > Environmental conditions.
Physical Description:xvi, 138 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Land policies
  • The mining giveaway
  • The northern waters
  • The southern waters
  • The military invasion
  • Faustian laboratory of the nuclear age, 1950-1992
  • Nuclear waste
  • Referees and reformers
  • Conclusion.