Saved in Time: The Fight to Establish Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Colorado
Author(s): Estella B. Leopold (Author), Herbert W. Meyer (Author)
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Publication Date: 15 Oct. 2012
Edition: Illustrated
Language: English
Print length: 176 pages
ISBN-10: 0826352367
ISBN-13: 9780826352361
Book Description
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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
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
From the Inside Flap
“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
From the Back Cover
“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
About the Author
Palaeobotanist Estella B. Leopold is professor emerita of biology at the University of Washington.
National Park Service palaeontologist
Herbert W. Meyer is the author of Fossils of Florissant.
Wow! eBook
