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English
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The Politics of Dunes, Redwoods, and Dams : Arizona's 'Brothers Udall' and America's National Parklands, 1961-1969 (Indiana, California)
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Tempe, Arizona
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Arizona State University
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Ph.D. diss.
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"The rapid expansion of America's national parklands during the 1960s centered around heightened awareness of ecological and life-quality concerns unique to post-World War II American environmental thought. Two Arizona brothers who served in the federal government during this decade, Interior Secretary Stewart Udall and Representative Morris Udall, reflected this new awareness as they helped shape policy focused on two of the decade's most contentious parklands issues: Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore and Redwood National Park. Yet, in direct contrast, both Udalls championed pre-World War II utilitarian economic philosophies in supporting two hydroelectric dams within the Grand Canyon--environmentally-questionable facilities designed to pump water to growing central and southern Arizona metropolitan areas. Both brothers thus struggled with an ideological conflict. Outside Arizona, they battled for unique dunes and redwoods ecosystems based on postwar life-quality and ecological awareness ideals. Within Arizona, however, the politics of water as a precious natural resource compelled them to support legislation based on their home state's needs. Archival research into manuscript collections shows that both Udall brothers represented an intellectual bridge between traditional utilitarian resource theories and modern environmental and life-quality ideals. This study details the dissimilar natural-resource-use philosophies evident in the postwar period, and how the Grand Canyon dam dispute forced Morris and Stewart Udall to reconcile, within themselves, these conflicting philosophies. " [Author's abstract]