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Saved in Time - by Estella B Leopold & Herbert W Meyer (Paperback)

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  • 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.
  • About the Author: Paleobotanist Estella B. Leopold is professor emerita of biology at the University of Washington.
  • 176 Pages
  • Nature, Environmental Conservation & Protection

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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.



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"Reads like a mystery thriller wherein a handful of committed environmentalists forestall the destruction of America's premier fossil beds. Brings to mind John Nichols's The Milagro Beanfield War and Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang. It is a true story with a happy ending (unless you're a real estate developer)."--Jack Loeffler, author of Adventures with Ed: A Portrait of Abbey



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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



About the Author



Paleobotanist Estella B. Leopold is professor emerita of biology at the University of Washington.

National Park Service paleontologist Herbert W. Meyer is the author of Fossils of Florissant.

Dimensions (Overall): 8.9 Inches (H) x 5.9 Inches (W) x .5 Inches (D)
Weight: .6 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 176
Genre: Nature
Sub-Genre: Environmental Conservation & Protection
Publisher: Unm Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Estella B Leopold & Herbert W Meyer
Language: English
Street Date: October 15, 2012
TCIN: 88982382
UPC: 9780826352361
Item Number (DPCI): 247-57-6708
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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