Robert W. Righter

Pioneering in wind energy: The California experience

In California today nearly 16,000 wind generators are spinning, providing for the electrical needs of roughly one million residents. Yet in 1980, just sixteen years ago, the state was without wind generators, save for a few experimental models. It is time to reflect on this remarkable growth. What caused it? What transformed a “soft energy path” dream into reality? This paper will focus on four central factors: 1) political climate, 2) tax incentives, 3) the PURPA Act of 1978, and 4) a sympathetic public utility commission.

Working the range : essays on the history of Western land management and the environment

This collection of twelve original essays explores the history of people interacting with the land. The first section examines how Native Americans attempted to maintain control of their lands. The second includes three essays that are concerned with land speculation, from the earliest penetration of the Europeans into the interior of America to the last frontiers of West Texas and Northern Mexico. A third section considers land policy and governmental attempts at regulation. The fourth documents environmental abuse and alteration by politicians as well as agriculturalists, farmers, and ranchers. Human interaction with the land is thus highlighted as westward expansion is chronicled.

Preserving Nature in the National Parks: A History. By Richard West Sellars. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1997. xiv + 380 pp. Illustrations, notes, index.

This text traces the epic clash of values between traditional scenery-and-tourism management and emerging ecological concepts in the American national parks. It spans the period from the creation of Yellowstone National Park in 1872 to the 1990s.

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