Saved in Time: The Fight to Establish Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Colorado

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.

Author: Estella B. Leopold, Herbert W. Meyer
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 10/15/2012
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780826352361

About the Author
Leopold, Estella B.: -

Paleobotanist Estella B. Leopold is professor emerita of biology at the University of Washington.

Meyer, Herbert W.: -

National Park Service paleontologist Herbert W. Meyer is the author of Fossils of Florissant.