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Wilderness Alps: Conservation and Conflict in Washington's North Cascades By Harvey Manning and the North Cascades Conservation Council Foreword by David Brower Northwest Wild Books (2007) 480 pp, with 32 pages of color Includes historic maps and photos ISBN 9780979333309 Cover price: $24.95 In stock Free shipping! (U.S. only, first class and media mail)

Wilderness Alps is the story of wilderness preservation and national park politics in one of North America’s most magnificent wilderness parks, the North Cascades. The book is beautifully illustrated by photographers Pat O'Hara, Dave Schiefelbein, and Tom Hammond

Brock Evans, President of the Endangered Species Coalition, had this to say about Wilderness Alps:
“This book has so much: the characters, from the First Ones of long ago, to the military explorers, the miners and railroad people, the loggers and grazers, the fools and charlatans, the promoters and speculators, the dambuilders and ubiquituous Chambers of Commerce, the politicians—all there, all swaggering and posturing across the stage, sometimes with such forceful schemes that one wonders how there is still, now, so much left. . . . This is a terrific book, easy going for a general reader, yet also certain to become The Basic Reference for any who come along in the future and want to know What It Really Was Like Then.”

Estella Leopold calls this book "A splendidly partisan account of citizens' fight for wilderness in the North Cascades, told by people in the trenches, people who can think like a mountain."

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