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Rapid Ascent: Rocky Mountain National Park in the Great Acceleration: 1945-Present

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: A Master's Thesis asserting that wat-time technologies cheap fossil fuels, and a culture of techno-optimism—epitomized by the Mission 66 development program—helped foster a “Great Acceleration” of human alterations of Earth’s natural systems. Rocky Mountain National Park; Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research; Roaring River; La Poudre Pass; Left-hand Reservoir; Lake Isabelle; Mount. Ida Ridge Pond.

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Author: Boxwell, Max

Language: English

Topic: American Environmental and Regional History

Subfield: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

Field: Environmental Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Climate action

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W7111583030

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