ISBN:

• 9780889774605
• 0889774609

Description: xxvi, 238 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 24 cm

Notes:

• Canadiana.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

• Envisioning the magnificent Nahanni
• Creating the initial Nahanni National Park Reserve : ideal wilderness and top-down planning
• The struggle for expansion : new ideas and approaches in the 1980s and 1990s
• The nineteenth-century fur trade : the early years
• The nineteenth-century fur trade : the later years
• Mining and a mixed economy
• Conserving the ecological integrity of the Nahanni for more than two hundred years
• Challenges and opportunities
• Analogies with experience elsewhere.

Control Number: 2024784

Subjects:

• Nahanni National Park Reserve (N.W.T.) -- History.
• National parks and reserves -- Northwest Territories -- History.
• Natural areas -- Northwest Territories -- History.