"Multitudes Hunger for a Lake in the Sun": Reclamation, Recreation, and the Conservation Movement in the 1960s

Authors

Ian Stacy, Central Washington University

Document Type

Article

Department or Administrative Unit

History

Publication Date

Winter 2011

Abstract

The article discusses conservation legislation and activism in the U.S. during the 1960s. It particularly focuses upon the creation of the Glen Canyon Dam in Lake Powell in Arizona and Utah and the role of U.S. Bureau of Reclamation commissioner Floyd E. Dominy, and the government's interest in creating recreational spaces and their relationship to other environmental reclamation projects such as irrigation, navigation, and flood control.

Comments

This article was originally published in Journal of the West.

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Recommended Citation

Stacy, I. (2011). “Multitudes Hunger for a Lake in the Sun” Reclamation, Recreation, and the Conservation Movement in the 1960s. Journal of the West, 50(1), 33–41.

Journal

Journal of the West