Restoring the Shining Waters
superfund success at milltown, montana
$58.00
- Paperback
280 pages
- Release Date
26 October 2025
Summary
Restoring the Shining Waters: A Montana Town’s Fight for Environmental Justice
No sooner had the EPA established the Superfund program in 1980 to clean up the nation’s toxic waste dumps and other abandoned hazardous waste sites, than a little Montana town found itself topping the new program’s National Priority List. Milltown, a place too small to warrant a listing in the U.S. Census, sat alongside a modest hydroelectric dam at the confluence of the Clark Fork and Blackfoot Rivers. …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780806196398 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0806196394 |
| Author: | David Brooks |
| Publisher: | University of Oklahoma Press |
| Imprint: | University of Oklahoma Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 280 |
| Release Date: | 26 October 2025 |
| Weight: | 248g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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Critics Review
“At last, the Clark Fork River has found its historian. David Brooks’s treatment of the Clark Fork and the Milltown Dam is beautifully written, exhaustively researched, thorough, and fair. In the spirit of Edward Abbey, Restoring the Shining Waters tells the story of what legal monkey-wrenching can do to save America’s impounded waterways. It is a model study in environmental history and political risk taking—the definitive account of a long and arduous struggle to restore a significant and lovely river.” - David M. Emmons, author of The Butte Irish: Class and Ethnicity in an American Mining Town, 1875–1925
About The Author
David Brooks
David Brooks is lead historian and Vice President of the Heritage Research Center in Missoula, Montana. He teaches history of the American West at the University of Montana.
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