NORTH CASCADES
Contested Terrain
North Cascades National Park Service Complex: An Administrative History
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ILLUSTRATIONS
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In the late 1950s, conservationists
worried that logging might beome a common scene in the Stehekin Valley
if the region were left under U.S. Forest Service management. Timber
harvests were on the increase throughout the North Cascades after World
War II, as suggested by the steam donkey skidding logs in the Glacier
Peak country in the early 1960s, and led to calls to preserve the North
Cascades as a national park. (Courtesy of the North Cascades National
Park)
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Planting fish at Stehekin in Company
Creek, c. 1960s. Fish planting in the waters of the North Cascades
National Park Service Complex was a highly contested issue. (Courtesy
of the North Cascades National Park)
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Glacier Peak: symbol of wilderness and
the North Cascades park campaign. (Courtesy of the North Cascades
National Park)
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Cascade Pass from Sahale Arm. In a
photo taken in 1947, the outlines of trails and other human impacts are
barely visible. See comparison photo, taken in 1977, in the next
chapter. (Courtesy of the North Cascades National Park)
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Cascade Pass from Sahale Arm. In a
photo taken in 1977, the damage to this popular and sensitive subalpine
country is readily apparent when compared to the 1947 photo shown in the
previous chapter. (Courtesy of the North Cascades National
Park)
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Last Updated: 14-Apr-1999
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