By Clark C. Spence
ISBN-10: 1607324741
ISBN-13: 9781607324744
Author Clark Spence specializes in the 2 most crucial forms of dredges within the state—the bucket-line dredge and the dragline dredge—and describes their financing, operation, difficulties, and influence at the country and setting. those dredges made it attainable to paintings floor formerly deemed untouchable simply because bedrock the place gold accumulated may perhaps now be reached. yet they have been additionally hugely harmful to the surroundings. As those large machines floated alongside, they dumped particles that harmed the streams and destroyed flora and fauna habitat, finally prompting kingdom rules and federal recovery of a few of the state’s crippled waterways.
Providing a checklist of Idaho’s dredging historical past for the 1st time, this ebook is an important contribution to the data and knowing of Western mining, its expertise, and its total improvement as an important of the 20th century.
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