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The book also discusses the role of tax credits and other government subsidies in the creation of transmission systems between the turbines and end users in cities.  Currently the world's fastest-growing source of energy, wind generation has also given rise to backlash. A critical advocate of wind energy whose career as a historian has focused on environmental controversies, Righter addresses the cultural dimensions of resistance to wind energy and makes considered predictions about the directions wind energy may take. His sympathetic treatment of opposing arguments regarding landscape change, unwanted noise, bird deaths, and human medical implications are thought-provoking, as is his recommendation that we place the lion's share of turbines on the Great Plains.  Most books on wind energy are technical manuals. Righter's book does not shy away from scientific explanations, but he does not write for engineers. 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Robert Righter was exactly the right person for this assignment, for he is a careful, meticulous scholar who lives near this place and understands its natural values as well as the motivations of those who sought to save it for posterity. His work stands tall and elegant like the Tetons in national park history. - Donald Worster\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003eIn Crucible for Conservation Robert Righter elegantly chronicled the early history of Grant Teton National Park to 1950. Now, he has brought the story up to date with this new, deeply-researched book that examines the difficult and often vexing challenges in the decades since, including private land inholdings, historic preservation, fire and wildlife management, and the airport. Righer, one of our finest national park historians, richly lluminates the recent history of one of our superlative national parks. 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The city of San Francisco pressed for the damming of the Tuolumne River in newly created Yosemite National Park in order to create a pure and reliable urban water supply. Gifford Pinchot, the first head of the US Forest Service, supported the reservoir, articulating the position that nature should be used, managed and controlled by man, a position of utilitarian conservation Theodore Roosevelt supported. But for the first time in American history, a significant national opposition arose to defend and preserve nature, led by John Muir and the Sierra Club.  Three years after congressional approval of the dam, Woodrow Wilson signed the National Parks Act to prevent future damming projects in nationally protected land; no dam has been approved since.In 1933, the city completedthe O'Shaugnessy Dam, but in the wake of the controversy there arose an active environmental movement, which developed interest group techniques and strategies that would effectively turn regional issues into national battles. The dam became a symbol of unquestioned growth, misplaced faith in technology and engineering, and a disrespect for nature and national parks.  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