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Greater Canyonlands: A Contested Landscape in Southern Utah

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2019, Master of Arts (MA), Ohio University, Geography (Arts and Sciences).
This project offers a comprehensive resource management history of Canyonlands National Park in southeastern Utah, focusing on the 1980s to the present. Canyonlands National Park and the surrounding area has experienced conflict and contention in the years since the park’s establishment in 1964. The protection and preservation of wilderness has been highly contested historically in the United States, usually pitting public land advocates against the fossil fuel industry, and Utah is no exception. Since the establishment of the park, there have been several attempts to both protect lands that surround the park, as well as open the lands for energy development and other extractive industries. To determine what forces came together to defeat the Greater Canyonlands National Monument Proposal in 2013, I conducted archival research and content analysis on four groups of documents comprised mainly of newspaper articles. I found that conflict is deeply ingrained in the area and that the main conflicts and contentions are the same as they were 60 years ago.
Geoffrey Buckley (Committee Chair)
Harold Perkins (Committee Member)
Tim Anderson (Committee Member)
111 p.

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  • Mumich, N. S. (2019). Greater Canyonlands: A Contested Landscape in Southern Utah [Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1556791592676917

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Mumich, Natalie. Greater Canyonlands: A Contested Landscape in Southern Utah. 2019. Ohio University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1556791592676917.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Mumich, Natalie. "Greater Canyonlands: A Contested Landscape in Southern Utah." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1556791592676917

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)