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The Fight to Establish Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Colorado

By: Estella B. Leopold, Herbert W. Meyer

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Paperback | 13 January 2013

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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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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

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Non-Fiction History Regional & National History History of the Americas Law Laws of Specific Jurisdictions Environment Environment Law Nature Conversation Law Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning The Environment Environmental Management

Conservation of The Environment Nature & The Natural World Rocks, Gems, Minerals & Fossils

Illustrations	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction	p. xix
Unearthing Wonders	p. 1
Geologic Book Burning or Preservation?	p. 17
The Developers Want Florissant	p. 38
Fossils Go to Court	p. 55
Victory-in Court and in Congress	p. 65
The National Park Service Steps In	p. 79
Beyond Florissant	p. 55
Appendix: An Epoch Sealed in Stone: A Guide to Florissant's Ancient Life and Fossils	p. 105
Notes	p. 116
Suggested Reading	p. 127
Dramatis Personae	p. 130
Index	p. 135
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