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Article: Bargaining For Eden: The Fight For The Last Open Spaces In America.(Book review)
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- March 1, 2009
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2009 Heldref Publications. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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by Stephen Trimble; University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 2008; 336 pp., $29.95 hardcover (ISBN 978-0-520-25111-3)
In Bargaining for Eden, naturalist writer Stephen Trimble weaves a captivating story of power politics surrounding the 2002 Olympics in Utah and pressing land conservation issues, such as management of public lands and the future of grassroots advocacy. The reader meets a cast of engaging characters, including Earl Holding, billionaire owner of Snowbasin Ski Resort, site of the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic winter games. His quest to convert more than 1,000 acres of the fragile National Forest land in the Ogden basin into a world-class, "Grand ...