Public Power Private Dams by Karl Boyd Brooks PAPERBACK 9780295989129

Public Power Private Dams\nby Karl Boyd Brooks\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Karl Boyd Brooks\nTitle: Public Power Private Dams\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: History of the Americas\nPublisher: MV - University of Washington Press\nPublication year: 2009\nISBN-13: 9780295989129\nISBN-10: 0295989122\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nIn the years following World War II, federal plans to build a mammoth new dam on the Snake River in Idaho were thwarted by a coalition of irrigators, private-power executives, and state politicians who wanted local control. The unintended result was the preservation of high deserts and mountain rivers from radical change.\n\nIn the years following World War II, federal plans to build a mammoth new dam on the Snake River in Idaho were thwarted .